Episode 140: In Texas, solar and sheep go hand in hand

July 17, 2026

The Dallas Morning News Lana Ferguson

 

This week, Paul Gerke and Mike Casey cover New York's first-in-the-nation data center moratorium, the American auto industry's retreat from EVs even as global sales boom, a transformer and grid equipment shortage driven by AI data center demand, and a 69% surge in global fusion investment. Dallas Morning News reporter Lana Ferguson joins to discuss Texas's booming "solar sheep" agrivoltaics industry, where ranchers graze sheep beneath solar panels. The episode closes with Cleantecher of the Week Joey Fiore, CEO of PowerLabs, maker of the portable solar generator Roav.

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