I wonder if they get the same conservative "No Industrial Solar" propaganda that pervades rural Iowa. A little bit of searching seems to indicate rural opposition to renewables to be fairly common.
Most rural people have no problem with industrial development unless it's highly polluting (and by "highly" I mean "orders of magnitude above and beyond what it takes to make people here hand wring").
Declining support for renewable energy seems to be a result of team politics.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/01/27/backlash...
Republican approval of renewable energy is also dropping year over year and is down 15% from 5 years ago.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/08/most-americ...
It seems there is a pretty clear divide in partisan and urban / rural support.