Oh, hell, yeah, this county's rich.

It's real rich.

Shoot, when it was booming, you come here at night and it looked like the stars.

And where we got, where we are in Texas was due to one thing and one thing only money.

So what happened in Texas and predominantly with wind was the Texans realized very quickly that even though wind power is renewable or energy and favorable perhaps for global warming perspectives, it's about money.

Welcome to a business daily energy Special with me, Joe Miller, from the heart of the oil

state of Texas, where the spirit of independence and the power of dollars and cents

have paved the way for a surprising energy revolution.

I didn't do it by regulation, and the consumers will drive the decision

of whether this is an effective public policy,

not the politicians.

And so far, the consumers in Texas have said we want to see renewable.

It's a scorching hot afternoon here in Georgetown, Texas, so hot in fact that the town square is virtually deserted, say for the occasional local

resident making a dash from an air-conditioned vehicle to an air-conditioned shop or office.

This conservative city, in a county that has voted for the Republican candidate in every

presidential race since 1976, and in a state

that is almost synonymous with gushing oil fields and fossil fuel plants, is one of the very

first in the United States of America to be powered entirely by renewable energy sources.

It's one of those things where it's like sort of strange that it's happening here

because it's just right smack dab in the middle of Texas.

How do you think people around here feel generally about climate change?

Do you think that's like an issue?

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