California continues down its path of slowly ballot initiative-ing itself to death. Did you know Texas has more wind power capacity (15 GW) than California, and is, in all honesty, further ahead in building high speed rail? Amazing, the things a conservative state can do when it wants, and the things California can't! At least, I know the State of California considers my couch a potential hazard to my health and knows my pillow to be flammable?! 
Well Iowa and Oklahoma have also passed California in wind generation. Kansas, Minnesota and Illinois are pretty close too. It was kind of foretold by the musical "Oklahoma". California, correctly, pivoted hard towards solar and produces about 40X what Texas does. Why Texas has embraced wind but not solar is a little curious given that there's certainly prime locations for utility scale solar, probably in part to the NG lobby being more powerful than the coal lobby.
