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Texas Wind Power Subsidies In Jeopardy
Resume![Oil and gas dominate the Texas energy market but wind is growing exponentially. Wind power now provides 10 percent of the state's electricity. (Lorne Matalon/Marfa Public Radio)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/0625_wind-farm-1000x647.jpg)
Texas leads the United States in the production of wind power, largely in thanks to a state mandate that utilities source a certain amount of electricity from renewables.
Wind power provides 10 percent of the Lone Star State's energy. The industry uses a combination of private investment for production and government subsidies for transmission lines.
But there's a movement to repeal state subsidies for wind power. Reporter Lorne Matalon of Marfa Public Radio reports.
Reporter
- Lorne Matalon, reporter for Fronteras Desk, West Texas Public Radio and Marfa Public Radio. He tweets @matalon.
This segment aired on June 25, 2015.