Texas Comptroller was Prescient

The view on renewable energy of former Texas Comptroller, Susan Combs, was published in the Texas Tribune in 2015 when Georgetown announced it had signed long-term wind and solar energy contracts.

Not all leaders in Texas have emphasized solar as a path forward for Texas. In a report last fall, for instance, former Texas Comptroller Susan Combs derided renewable energy sources such as wind and solar as unreliable (the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow) and too expensive, saying that long-term contracts for solar energy could lock utilities into rates that might look too high in the future.