A 25 percent tax credit provided by the Feds for investing in the electricity generation business was already a very enticing deal to investors. What Cashman did was double it. In California, any investment in renewable infrastructure (including solar and wind power, but also solar hot water heaters and other non-electricity producing uses of renewables) was rewarded with a tax break of nearly 50 percent. Money poured into the state, and most of it was transformed into the steel stalks and massive rotating blades of wind turbines. There were veritable forests of them.
