Either you're incorrectly assuming the GOP would actively legislate against wind farms or something else is happening.
What do you think is the mostly likely explanation?
edit: and here's an article that explicitly talks about how GOP members are trying to undermine wind power generation in Texas. https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2017/02/14/propos...
The big misunderstanding the blue has about the red is who pays for things. It's not the GOP hates renewables, they just want the private industry to pay for them, not the taxpayer. Let the cheapest energy source win! Wind and solar absolutely have a great chance at doing that.
That doesn't make a good story though... It just stinks that people won't look for common ground :/
"The bill would require all utilities serving Wyoming by 2019 to obtain their electricity from sources other than commercial-scale wind or solar operations. Utilities would be fined $10 per renewable energy megawatt hour used in a year, the amount of energy it takes to power 82 Wyoming homes."
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-01-25/wyoming-p...
Perhaps it would be clearer to say $0.01 per kilowatt-hour, though it is unclear whether the fine is levied annually, or only for energy used over a duration of one specific year.
That bit about powering 82 homes just does not compute. Homes are powered with watts. American homes average 1.25 kW. One MW powers 800 homes. One MW-h spread out over the span of one year (8760 h) is 114 W, which is enough to power about 9% of one home. So if your Wyoming home uses 9% grid-tied renewables for its power, you would probably pay $10 extra per year for this fine.
The latter doesn't result in as many clicks.