Originally published on Into the Wind. By David Ward It is the week before Earth Day (Tuesday, April 22) and we are asking American wind power supporters to share why they love wind energy on Twitter and Facebook. Similar to our #iheartwind week a couple months back, we are asking supporters to use the #iheartrenewables hashtag to … [continued]
Here’s another slightly belated repost for you all to enjoy. Here’s AWEA’s own wrap-up of its recent WINDPOWER 2012 conference, which we posted on a couple times. For anyone who’s been following wind industry news, there’s not a whole lot of new information in here, but some important news … [continued]
by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) WASHINGTON – Two Cabinet secretaries met with 14 leaders of the U.S. wind manufacturing, construction, and development sectors at the White House today, advancing a bipartisan effort to extend the wind energy Production Tax Credit before Congress recesses for the summer, and … [continued]
by the American Wind Energy Association WASHINGTON – In a year of partisan politics, two leading partisans will seek common ground at the biggest annual gathering of the wind industry – which is counting on bipartisan support to continue its rapid growth in the United States. Karl Rove and … [continued]
Weekly roundup of other great stories we didn’t cover.
Wrapping up the WindPower 2011 conference in Anaheim, California this week, AWEA Board of Directors Chairman Ned Hall, president of AES North America, moderated a panel of featured leaders in the wind industry
Wind power needs to be and will likely be a key source of electricity in the near future (and already is in some places). As legendary business leader Ted Turner said at the U.S. WINDPOWER conference in California yesterday, embarcing renewable energy such as wind, solar, geothermal is an “even more of an obvious business decision for him today than launching eventual cable giant CNN was in 1980.” Turner stated, “I’ve never seen anything more clear as the case for wind, solar, and geothermal.”
