Then it was on to Las Vegas to reunite with Gore, a fellow speaker at Friday’s National Clean Energy Summit, an event co-hosted by Reid, a Democrat from Nevada. The 58-year-old said the decision to follow the lead of Burlington, Vermont – the first US city to run solely on renewable energy – was not the product of liberal do-gooder vapours wafting up Interstate 35 from nearby Austin. Photograph: David A Brown/Local Sun“We call the programme ‘farm-to-market solar energy’,” Romano said, at his office in central Houston. On Friday, the day of the clean energy summit, Texas’s largest electricity producer announced it would close two more coal-fuelled power plants in the state. “And now Texas again is on the frontier of the new energy that’s going to be the future.”

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2017 06:00 UTC