Last month, the Austin American-Statesman reported that the largest solar project in Texas — the 30-megawatt Webberville facility — had started delivering power to Austin residents. Austin Energy’s press release describes it as the “largest active solar project of any public power utility in the country.” Previously, San Antonio’s Blue Wings facility had held the title of largest solar project in Texas, clocking in at 14 mw.

In this context, CPS Energy’s announcement this week of a winning bidder to provide San Antonio with 400 mw of solar energy was a game-changer. But on the national level, how big of a deal is this project? To answer that question, we have to look to California, which has been furiously building new solar capacity in response to the state’s mandate that 33percent of all electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.

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