Brave New Workers: A Texas Cowboy Finds Fortune in the Wind

April 10, 2017

KUNC published an audio segment in the Brave New Workers series, which profiles people adapting to a changing economy. Texas rancher Lanny Copeland sold his family's cattle in the mid-2000s after a prolonged drought. While looking for a new line of work, he visited a wind energy job fair. Nine years later, Copeland works as an operations and maintenance manager for Invenergy, overseeing two wind farms and 27 wind turbine technicians in Texas.