Robert Byrnes, a 48-year-old army veteran with a broad nose and a rugged cleft chin, is the kind of man who can tell you everything that’s wrong with Nebraska’s state energy policy while sweating in the shade of a solar panel and gnawing on a cob of corn. Byrnes holds a degree in organic chemistry from the University of Massachusetts and runs an integrator business, Nebraska Renewable Energy Systems, on a 10-acre off-grid estate that he calls his »Energy Farm.« When I met him he’d just returned from Kansas where he was trying to drum up work installing photovoltaics (PV), but the trip didn’t yield much and Byrnes wondered where, and when, his next solar job would be.