Oil Crash Puts Texas Solar Boom At Risk

The oil price crash struck right in the heart of the U.S. oil industry, Texas, where firms are curtailing production to ride out the lowest oil prices in years.   If we were in normal times, the new oil crisis would have been just another bust in the boom-and-bust oil price cycle.   But these are not normal circumstances, not by a long shot. The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic repercussions have upended the plans and prospects for every industry and service sector in the top oil-producing U.S. state. And renewables are no…