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I'm seeing a lot of commenters shitting on Texas here, and while it's not completely undeserved, I'd like to point out that Texas is 1st in the nation in wind power generation. Texas will implement things -- even "Blue" things -- if the economics make sense.
They may generate the most wind power, but that's just because they're so big. They're not even in the top 10 if you look at what percentage of their power generation is from wind power
Republicans like Abbott went on Fox News and blamed windmills for the storm outage. The party is very different than they were when these projects started, when economics mattered. Texas politics may still accidentally allow a select few progressive things to happen, but the builders and owners must be extremely "friendly" and perfectly thread the needle. Oil and gas owns this state, including the windmills, probably.