Anyone who has visited Nevada knows the Silver State has an abundance of another natural resource: sunlight. Naturally, lawmakers there have been determined to make the most of it. The desert state generates about a third of its electricity from solar panels, the highest in the country on a per capita basis.
Since 2019, leaders from both parties have supported plans to draw more than half its energy from renewable sources, especially solar.
Increasingly, however, those lofty ambitions seem unlikely to succeed for the same reasons that energy projects across the country just can’t seem to make much headway: The country is consumed by a culture of “no.”
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