The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World: Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change
Written by Andy Bowman and Katharine Hayhoe
Narrated by Andy Bowman
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For author Andy Bowman, this is a very personal story. Bowman grew up in Galveston and acutely remembers watching stormwater climb up seawalls and wreak havoc on his home. He weaves these memories into his coming of age over two decades in the alternative energy industry, beginning in the 1990s, and tracks it’s the industry’s fits and starts that lead to the Barilla project. Barilla was the first solar project to be built “on spec”: essentially, the plant was built without a contract in place and with the assumption that customers would come. That trailblazing wager represents a tidal shift in the alternative energy industry.
In a clear voice, Bowman explains the climate science that necessitated this shift and makes business-based arguments for what the future should look like. The result is a book that tells a personal story of West Texan innovation, gumption, and vision, while also outlining how our society needs to equip itself to confront climate change.
Andy Bowman
Andy Bowman has been a serial clean energy entrepreneur since the late 1990s, when he worked to develop some of the first utility scale wind projects in the country. Over the last twenty-five years he has participated in about 3,600 megawatts of wind and solar projects across the country, equivalent to about seven coal power plants, and his newest company is building grid-scale energy storage projects. Bowman is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and Yale University. He is an adjunct professor at UT Law School and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.
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