The same thing happened to Alabama during the Obama years. The difference between Alabama and Texas isn't just Bama having much better football. The difference is our state capitol isn't as hard lib as Austin is. Therefore, we built a gas powered plant to replace the coal powered one Obama shut down. Meanwhile, Austin made Texas replace coal with solar and wind.
The funny thing is I have solar on my house and I love it. I just think solar his horrible to implement at the utility level -- especially with bureaucrats get their hands on it.
If the dumb politicians would allow market forces to determine the electrical mix, you would probably have coal and gas plants, with maybe some nuclear plants (expensive!), at the utility level and lots of rooftop solar in more prosperous communities, and things would work a lot better.
I have lived off grid before, myself. The wind and solar technologies are great for that, with proper backup. But not so great to actually power the grid.