I. Renewables include hydroelectric, biomass, solar, wind, geothermal. Solar is quite minor.
Be careful when researching energy data. Sometimes data is for installed capacity. But there's a difference between capacity and actual production. You can have 100 GW of solar capacity installed, but there's night-time and cloudy days, actual electricity produced is less.
Here's raw ELECTRICAL generation data from EIA. Wind is 7.3% of the total and solar is 1.8% of the total US Electricity. That's for the entire nation, though. I don't know about Texas alone.
II. Renewables (incl biomass, hydro, wind and solar) is only 11% of the total energy produced and consumed in the US --most of that is wind and hydro-power from the first figure.
As a rough estimation, Wind is 4.7% and Hydro 4.3% of our total energy. Solar is only 1% of our total energy. (click for larger image)
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