While several large natural gas plants opened in the US last year, their capacity was eclipsed by a wave of smaller renewable facilities that came online. Those solar and wind farms weren’t just isolated to blue states. They include the 600-megawatt Hornet solar farm, which opened just south of Amarillo, Texas, in April, and the Beaver Creek wind installation just east of Billings, Montana, which began operating with roughly 248 megawatts of capacity four months later.