Driving the interest is not only the state’s sprawling wind and solar farms – among the largest in the country - but the relatively low cost of development, an existing energy workforce and access to some of the nation’s largest ports along the Gulf Coast, said Ken Medlock, an energy economist at Rice University.
Part of that calculation is increasing trepidation among clean energy developers over their longstanding reliance on foreign manufacturers. shipments are blocked by customs officials over suspected violations of U.S. laws preventing the use of slave labor.
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