US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has turned to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in an effort to revitalize the country’s coal and nuclear industries by essentially subsidizing their sectors based on a misguided belief that their technologies are the only way to bring stability to the country’s electricity grid.
The American Wind Energy Association has this week published a new interactive map which displays every single wind farm and factory across the United States, aimed to help people better picture the substantial growth of the US wind industry.
While the US wind industry only installed 237 MW in the second quarter of this year, the industry can nevertheless be comforted by the knowledge that there are 40% more wind projects currently under development than at the same time a year earlier, heralding strong growth ahead.
In a move that seemingly has no other intention but to hamper economic growth and ban the development of clean energy, North Carolina legislators seek to place a moratorium on new wind farm permits through 2018.
Two months after newly-minted US Energy Secretary Rick Perry sought answers about the reliability and market rules of the US electricity grid, a new report by Analysis Group has concluded that there is simply no evidence that the changing mix of the United States’ electricity sector will affect system reliability.
A group of four national business groups representing US renewable energy interests submitted materials to the US Energy Secretary Rick Perry in an attempt to inform him of the importance and value of renewable energy sources and their contribution to protecting electricity reliability.
The US wind energy sector had its best quarter since 2009, installing 908 utility-scale wind turbines totalling 2,000 megawatts of new capacity.
New figures published by the American Wind Energy Association show that the US wind energy industry added jobs at over 9 times faster than the overall US economy in 2016, reaching 102,500 jobs in all, helping to install more than 8 GW of new wind power and help investment reach more than $14 billion.
Further analysis of the US wind energy sector by Navigant Consulting shows that the state of Iowa could support over 17,000 wind-related jobs by 2020.
The American Wind Energy Association has come out against an Ohio state bill which would reduce the state’s renewable energy standards into an unenforceable goal, saying that it would slam the brakes on wind power jobs and investment.
