Wind is Keeping West Texas Ranches Solvent
On this week’s Energy Capital Podcast, Joshua Rhodes talks with John E. Davis, a fifth-generation rancher and former Texas state representative who chaired the House Economic and Small Business Development Committee.
They talk about the seven turbines Davis hosts from the Cactus Flats project in Concho County. Davis, a conservative Republican, argues that a landowner’s right to host wind or solar is the conservative position, and the politics of renewables have drifted from the economics that drive rural Texas.
This is a summary prepared by Rural Texas Energy Voices. Original reporting by Texas Energy & Power (Energy Capital Podcast).
