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Suspension of Massive Offshore Wind Project a Market Indicator

“An analysis of current conditions indicates that a viable commercial market in the United States is still farther out, as much as three or four years away, at the earliest,” the companies said, making further investment impractical.

9May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Legal Challenges Force Delay in Wind
Farm Project

Wasatch Wind said the delay comes because numerous legal challenges to the project by the Northern Laramie Range Alliance have made it impossible to start generating power on that site by October, forcing the company to break a power purchase agreement with Rocky Mountain Power.

30Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Bird Deaths Haunt Wind Energy —
Interior Puts Forth a Plan

Environmentalists are facing a conundrum: To fight green energy projects that they see as detrimental to their cause or to work with the developers and the authorities to minimize damages. The U.S. Dept. of Interior has made some suggestions that it thinks will help alleviate bird deaths associated with wind energy.

23Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power Line in Wyoming, Idaho
Draws Opposition

Some Idaho and Wyoming residents and environmental groups are expressing opposition to a proposed 1,100-mile long high-voltage power line designed to transmit 3,000 megawatts of mostly wind-generated electricity to fast-growing areas in the western U.S.

16Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama Takes on Anti-Solar Lobby During Nevada Visit

While visiting a solar farm in Boulder City, the President expanded on his “all-of-the-above energy” strategy; one in which solar energy features heavily. He took a tour of Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest solar panel based facility in the country.

22Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Rail Park Business Less Than Anticipated

The Bishop Rail Industrial Park has generated far less in business for its owners and revenue for Natrona County than anticipated four years ago, County Treasurer Tom Doyle said this week.

11Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Joint Venture Buying Wyoming Wind Farms

TIAA-CREF and Alaska-based Cook Inlet Region, Inc., have joined Edison Mission Energy to form Capistrano Wind Partners, LLC in order to take over Mountain I and Mountain II wind developments near Evanston.

8Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind-Power Sector Loses Luster With Investors

U.S. investments in turbine farms and wind-energy businesses tumbled 38 percent last year to $9.7 billion, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Venture capitalists have practically left the sector altogether. They invested only $177.6 million in wind startups last year, down 71 percent from the year before.

6Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Turbine Construction Lags Behind Permitting

Specifically, he said legal and environmental issues such as sage grouse habitat, financial concerns, tax uncertainty, legal and transmission constraints have slowed construction of wind turbines.

22Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Production Tax Credit Not Part of Tax Bill

Despite the best efforts of the renewable energy industry, its lobbyists and supporting politicians, the payroll tax cut extension Congress is finalizing this week will not include a key subsidy for renewable energy. Uncertainity reigns in the offices of wind energy officials as they look to 2013.

16Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NLRA Plans Wyo Supreme Court Appeal of District Court Rulings on Wind Permits

The Northern Laramie Range Alliance (NLRA) says it will take its case against Wasatch Wind challenging the company’s Industrial Siting Council and Converse County wind permits to the Wyoming Supreme Court.

7Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Army’s Largest Renewables Project Part of $61 in Million Energy Contracts

At Fort Carson, the Army partnered with a local energy provider to build a photovoltaic solar array on top of a closed landfill. The White Sands Missile Range project in New Mexico will provide the Army with 4.44-megawatts of installed photovoltaic capacity, saving 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually.

6Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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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