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Officials Concerned About Expiring Wind Tax Credit

An aide to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, warned Wyoming government and industry officials this week about the impact of expiring incentives for renewable energy projects.

2Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Biomass Projects Burned by Low Natural Gas Prices

“The era of low-priced natural gas has blunted opportunities for biomass and other renewables,” said Doug Tiffany, an agricultural economist at the University of Minnesota.

1Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Duke-American Acquires Zephyr Project for Wyoming Wind Power

The newly formed joint venture says it is commited to using at least 2,100 MW of the transmission line’s capacity to provide wind power to California and the southwestern United States from the wind-rich areas of eastern Wyoming

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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300-MW Wind Farm Proposed for Belvoir Ranch Near Cheyenne

Morley Company CEO Bruce Morley said that Cheyenne won’t be required to invest any money into the project, and that the wind farm will benefit the city greatly. According to the CEO, the city of Cheyenne could make $72 million to $130 million by leasing land for the wind farm to Morley.

18Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas Urges Extension of U.S. Production Tax Credit to Preserve Thousands Of American Jobs

“An extension of the PTC is necessary for the continued employment of the 80,000 people working in the U.S. wind industry,” said Wyrsch, who leads the North American arm of Vestas Wind Systems, which has several manufacturing plants in Colorado.

15Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Wind Tower Plant Delayed Until
Next Year

The uncertainity over federal subsidies to the wind energy industry is why plans to build a $40 million plant near Cheyenne that would produce towers for wind turbines have been delayed, according to industry observers.

6Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Three Wyoming Wind Projects Getting BLM
Fast Tracking

They include the 1,000-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy project south of Rawlin; the 25-turbine Sand Hills Farm Project northwest of Laramie and the White Mountain project near Rock Springs.

2Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coalition Wants Extension of Wind
Production Tax

A broad, nonpartisan coalition of 369 members, including manufacturing, farm and business interests, has issued a letter endorsing a four year extension to wind energy’s key federal tax incentive, the Production Tax Credit.

27Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interactive Energy Storage System Project on Tap

According to the utility, it was looking for a modular, scalable system with an easy-to-deploy platform that would deliver the benefits of load management and peak shaving while being flexible enough to support on-site renewable power generating sources.

22Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Without PTC Extension, U.S. Wind Power Market May ‘Fall Off a Cliff,’ Warns Vestas CEO

The production tax credit provides an incentive of 2.2 cents a kilowatt-hour for electricity from wind applied to operators’ tax bills. In the past, the termination of such policies has shown markets can “disappear,” Engel told Bloomberg.

21Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Study Views, Best Locations For Wyoming Wind Farms and Power Lines

The view impact study is one of several studies under way by the BLM. Others will examine the best place, from a land-use perspective, to locate wind farms.

20Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NCAR Wind Forecasting System Saves
Millions for Utility

By issuing forecasts that are 35 percent more accurate than previous forecasting methods, the system enables utility operators to constantly anticipate the amount of energy produced by wind farms across Xcel Energy’s service area in neighboring Colorado.

14Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Google Map Reveals U.S. Geothermal Resources 10 Times Greater Than Coal

“Our study assumes that we tap only a small fraction of the available stored heat in the Earth’s crust, and our capabilities to capture that heat are expected to grow substantially as we improve upon the energy conversion and exploitation factors through technological advances and improved techniques.”

1Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Lawmakers Vote Against Bill to Restructure
State Wind Tax Policies

Transmission lines are more critical to future wind energy development in Wyoming than state tax policies. That’s the upshot of a legislative committee’s vote against a bill that would have restructured the state’s policy on taxing wind energy projects to benefit producers.

28Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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