These sound like scenes from a clean energy expo or a hopeful science fiction novel, but they’re neither. Yet despite the political headwinds, clean energy has made real progress, which Sun Day aims to put front and center. As recently as 2020, 90 percent of U.S. adults were in favor of expanding solar power, according to polling from Pew Research Center. Yet the politics of clean energy isn’t as simple as right versus left. In Texas, the state where clean energy is growing the fastest, rural Republican lawmakers worked to protect renewables from a particularly restrictive bill this year.