Bobby Magill wrote a great article for Climate central towards the end of February regarding solar installations on both the east and west coast of the country. This is great news as we have been hearing about the high solar adoption in California for some time now, and it looks as though the east in on track to make a significant dent in their own utility scale renewables with over 4.0 MW of utility scale solar development underway in North Carolina alone.
Texas is still a ways behind North Carolina for adoption, though groups such as the Texas Solar Energy Society (TXSES) and their local counterparts such as the Houston Renewable Energy Group (HREG) are doing their part to socialize solar as a great opportunity for energy generation in Texas.
Check out Bobby Magills article for more on the state of solar: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/eastern-us-solar-development-18714#comment_form