Don't forget part of Pickens' Plan included water rights from West Texas to Dallas under those wind farms. If I remember correctly, there were some disagreements and TBP wasn't able to complete the water pipeline portion.

He didn't miss the boat. His master plan of connecting West Texas water to Dallas for marked up resale fell through.

https://gigaom.com/2008/06/20/t-boone-pickens-taps-water-win...

Pickens Plan actually did invest in huge wind farms. Not sure about in Texas, but Oklahoma is littered with his windmills.

T Boone was too far ahead of the transmission infrastructure with his plan. The SPP lines were not capable of moving much wind (pre ITP build-out) and the ERCOT CREZ plans were just a twinkle in our eyes at the time. We came up with ERCOT CREZ prelim plans about 2006 but it took until 2013/14 to get em built and energized. So, he launched his boat too early, he did not miss the boat.