Rick Perry. He advocated for wind power and in 2005 he raised the amount/goal of what Texas was supposed to have in Gigawatts from Wind Power. He's from a small town near Abilene, and that area of Teas would benefit from the taxes the wind companies paid. Small towns envisioned lots of money coming into their towns and schools - and it did. It also probably helped him get reelected.

He also forced the power companies to pass the cost of new transmission lines needed to carry the electricity to other parts of the state on to the rate payers - us.

He didn't force them to do the proper maintenance and winter weathering, so when it actually got really cold (not Texas cold) they froze up.