http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/21/rapid-recover-american-wind-power/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/21/rapid-recover-american-wind-power/#comment-187805 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58035#comment-187805 Republicans don’t want a predictable, long-term policy on anything except fossil fuel and farm subsidies, low taxes for the rich, and cutting entitlements. They want to maximise the opportunities for confrontation and extortion in the budget process. I expect the renewables PTC to be renewed in the end-year haggle – but just for another year or two.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/21/rapid-recover-american-wind-power/#comment-187784 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58035#comment-187784 You can’t know, but image that instead of 1 year, they had extended it 5 years for on shore and 10-15 years for offshore; then a 5 year step down. Then companies would know the ground rules for a long time and be willing to invest/risk even more. Funds could have been more than covered by cutting oil, gas,coal, nuclear subsidies.

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