As recently as 2000, Nolan County didn’t have a single wind energy turbine dotting the landscape, but today, nearly 2,000 of the mammoth structures are spread through the Sweetwater area, which means tax revenue for local governments and schools, and, of course, plenty of work for lawyers.
Over the past few years, lawyers with backgrounds ranging from oil and gas to real estate to probate started dabbling in wind law and now find themselves knee deep in the burgeoning renewable energy practice area. With Texas ranked No. 1 in the nation for wind energy capacity and construction of some much-needed transmission lines in the works, lawyers doing wind law expect the practice to grow even more in Texas.
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