I am curious if this is hurt by people denying[1] the pain a solution would cause. A massive shift away from petrocarbon exploration would cause a great deal of unemployment (and consequently suicide, domestic violence, etc) in areas like Houston.
"Second, Texas has way more wind power than any other state. In 2014, wind accounted for 4.4 percent of electricity produced in the United States. Texas, which has more installed wind capacity (15,635 megawatts) than any other state and is home to nearly 10,000 turbines, got 9 percent of its electricity from wind in 2014."
Well, Texas is big. Big enough to run their own stable independent grid, avoiding a lot of Federal craziness. And big enough to have plenty of good places for turbines, without hardly as much NIMBY/BANANA as California, the next biggest state.
[1] http://m.imgur.com/r/energy/up6yu