The US Energy Secretary recently announced that they are reassessing, or essentially rewriting the 2023 congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment (NCA) report.

Apparently, the assessment isn’t inline with the current administrations thinking regardless of the scientific data backing the assessment. The Department of Energy has taken down the website hosting the NCA. While the Energy Secretary wants to unleash American energy dominance, it appears that this primarily means through fossil fuel and not necessarily innovative solutions.

Solar power however is on the rise and is now becoming cost effective to build and maintain and also it is scaling fast. Two top solar power states include California and Texas – two states on very different sides of political aisle.

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