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Ruben Gallego: “We generate less solar than places like Texas. Even though…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Published | Video Starts at 33:24

That helps keeps, you know, the ROI high enough for investors to keep doing this. And so what ends up happening is that we have less solar than places. We generate less solar than places like Texas. Even though we are one of the sun, we are the sunniest state. Oh, wow. In the country. Right. And that's purely just because you have so much federal land that's hard to install it. Yeah, yeah. (33:24–33:30)

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Asserts that Arizona generates less solar energy than Texas despite being the sunniest state.

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