Elizabeth Weise

There's a really interesting group, Conservatives for Clean Power.

I mean, there's actually a bunch of conservative groups that are, they say, we're all of the above.

We don't just want coal or fossil fuels.

We want anything that we can to make energy, because without energy, America can't function and America can't be great.

So there are contradictions there.

And the Republican Party has really become very, especially in rural America, very much the party of being opposed to wind and solar in many places.

There are conservative groups that would tell you that's a contradiction.

It brings up a lot of strong feelings.

One of the places that we visited was Utah.

And Utah is the county I was in, 70% Trump voters, very strongly.

And yet...

They were very rational about it.

And they just sat down and they said, hey, this solar is going to bring in this much money.

It's going to allow us to do this with their schools.

They have an amazing wrestling team.

This is in Juab County.

And they decided this is what we want.

And for them, it was a I mean, they had a lot of discussions, but it ended up being a financial decision for their community, apart from any political feelings they might have had.

Yeah, so that's what's really interesting.

So we have spent three years now doing an in-depth analysis of every county in the United States to see if they had either a ban or a block or a moratorium on new, and we're only looking at utility scale solar.