> Couldn't the people who own the windmills just as easily hold the country hostage as you put it?

It’s easier to enforce American political will on a wind farm in Texas than a pump in Saudi/Siberia.

One of the great things about electricity is that its sources are highly substitutable - the end uses don't care whether their energy comes from wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, natural gas, etc.

Also, the inherent intermittency of wind and solar makes it even harder for generators to hold the market hostage, as they don't control the timing when they generate power. To curtail energy supply would be to undermine the economics of the capital investments into these projects, as it would be missed revenue.

They literally could not, because they're within US legal jurisdiction (being physically in the US), emergency powers can be used when life or liberty at threatened to keep them operating while the disputes are resolved likely through the courts.

Investors? Coal plants could be hypothetically be shut down and hold the economy hostage too. Not sure your point.

Presumably the windmills would be domestic and not foreign.

That same reasoning applies to the current large oil companies who aren't really doing everything they can to increase production because doing so would bring them a lower rate of profit.