There’s an ocean of brackish water under the west texas scrub. Brackish means the water is slightly salty. Its much cheaper to desalinate than sea water because the salt content of sea water is 4-8 times saltier.
Traditionally windmills were used to pump up water from wells—except where the water is brackish.
All they need to do is harness the night time production of windmills— when electricity prices are dirt cheap— to pump up and desalinate water out in west texas—and suddenly they have fresh water that’s cheap enough to water high end crops growing on land that’s dirt cheap.,..,
There is one large brackish water desalination plant in El Paso but its not currently on the Texas Grid.
Or just meet the demands of a growing state.
Yes, that’s a good idea. And unlike electricity, water is easy to store.
That sounds like a wonderful idea. Or they can use it to produce Hydrogen to power fuel cells.