This story was originally published by Canary Media  and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk  collaboration. The Texas sun keeps rising, as Texas coal wanes. For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. Nobody is building new coal power plants in the state, but developers are  adding more solar there  than anywhere else in the country. As a result of those diverging trajectories, the  federal government expects  ERCOT will receive 78 billion kilowatt-hours from solar in 2026 and just 60 from coal. This trend does have seasonal variations. Last year, solar output beat coal on a monthly basis from March through August, and this year it is expected to do so from March through December, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, at the Department of Energy.…