Texas Grid Sets New Wind Power Record & Aims Much Higher
Texas recently set a new record for wind power across its grid by generating over 8,500 MW for 26 percent of total demand — and it could soon reach 75 percent …
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National Grid Has 40 Million Reasons to Extend the Wind Tax Credit
What do they know that we don’t know? The utility giant National Grid has just announced a $40 million investment in four new high-voltage, long-distance renewable energy transmission projects by Clean Line. The move comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives continue to stall on extending a … [continued]
Wind Energy Tax Credit Set To Expire At End Of 2012: Details
The wind energy production tax credit (PTC), along with state-level policies, has boosted the growth of the U.S. wind industry over the past decade, but the PTC is set to expire at year-end unless legislation extending its provisions is approved. This tax credit was first implemented in 1992, when … [continued]
Republican Governors Breathe New Life Into Wind Tax Credit
Well, that didn’t take long. Barely three weeks after the lobbying group American Energy Alliance vowed to make the wind tax credit “too toxic” for Republican legislators to support, two Republican governors joined with two Democratic governors to come through with a message of their own for Republican legislators. Spearheaded … [continued]
Note to Exelon: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
By Courtney Lane of PennFuture Energy Center (reposted by request) Exelon has changed its tune on the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy and has begun to lobby against its extension. Most recently, the company issued a report attacking the subsidy. The truth behind this about-face is not something … [continued]
New Campaign Against “Toxic” Wind Tax Credit Could Backfire
A lobbying group called the American Energy Alliance (AEA) has reportedly unleashed a campaign to make the wind tax credit too “toxic” to win the support of Republican legislators. That’s a pretty tall order considering that wind power has a broad constituency that cuts clear across party lines. About 81 percent of Congressional districts … [continued]
Congressional Inaction Threatens Record Wind Energy Growth
The picture of the US wind energy industry looks markedly different looking back than it does looking forward. US wind energy capacity has been growing at a record rate this year, but the year-end expiration of a key federal tax credit is already slowing things down. […]
Mitt Romney’s Winners & Losers
Here’s a great post by perhaps the best Congressperson in office today, Bernie Sanders, on Mitt Romney’s relationship to energy (h/t Grist): The Big Energy industries (oil, coal and gas) along with their political allies like Mitt Romney are waging war against sustainable energy and efforts to transform our … [continued]
Wind Power Lowers Electricity Prices, And How
Editor’s note: We’ve covered the some of the topics below several times (check out our World Wind Power page for a bit more on this), but given how much misinformation there is out there about wind power, we could hammer this home every day and it probably wouldn’t be … [continued]
Smooth Sailing for Wind Power with New Flow Battery… or Not
Wind power is ready for another leap into the future, with the announcement that a new redox flow battery from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is going into commercial development by the company UniEnergy Technologies LLC. The new grid-scale flow batteries can store huge amounts of energy from wind turbines, which basically eliminates … [continued]
