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    Despite natural gas boom, this Texas town is going 100% renewable

    Jun 14, 2018 4 minutes
    Ed Soph, a retired University of North Texas jazz studies professor, and his wife Carol stand in front of solar panels they installed on their roof ten years ago. They are local environmental activists in Denton, which earlier this year became the second city in Texas to commit to derive 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources.

    When Ed and Carol Soph first installed solar panels on their roof in 2007, the rest of the town’s gaze was fixed underground. It was the dawn of a natural gas revolution that seemed like it would alter Denton, Texas, forever.

    Today, however, some 150 homes in this mid-sized college town sport rooftop solar panels and Denton, about 40 miles north of Dallas, is on track to become the second city in Texas to draw all of its electricity demand from clean energy.

    With explosive renewable energy growth and a uniquely isolated electricity grid that doesn't cross state lines, some analysts say the Lone Star state could become a model for local communities around the country

    Not the first, not the last?Scaling up?Uniquely poised

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