[itsahoot]

Seems I remember T Boon Pickens had a lot to do with building wind energy and made a little profit in the process

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I forgot about good old T Boone. I'm sure he had an outsized influence on the regulators in Texas, BUT his championing of wind started in 2008, about ten years after the Texas PUC began chasing their Renewable Portfolio Standards approach.

Pickens spent about $100 million since 2008 on his Pickens Plan, a grassroots campaign that called for building wind farms and an improved electric grid, offering incentives for energy efficiency and expanding use of natural gas-powered vehicles. That created a strange-bedfellows alliance between Pickens and Democrats.

“Here is a man who was my mortal enemy,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said in 2008. “He’s my pal now.”