Deep in the Heart of Texas: I Spy Something Red Deep in the heart of Texas, more than 200 people gathered in Mesquite in late May to celebrate the opening of a green-energy factory. Encompassing almost half-a-million square feet and retrofitted for up to $200 million, the plant will mass-produce large-scale lithium-ion batteries for U.S. utilities. It will turn out 10 gigawatt hours of storage per year, a large chunk given industry plans to add almost 20 gigawatts of utility-scale storage in the full year 2025. But rather than "Made In America," this is more of a Chinese invasion. The…