All Posts Tagged With: "American Wind Energy Association"

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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 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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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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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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Wind Industry “Road Show” in Casper Today

Wind energy developers are hosting “wind road shows” as they court public opinion. Today’s event in Caper will be at the McMurry Training Center from 4:30-7 p.m

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Study Presents Positive Outlook for Integrating
Renewables Into the Grid

“This is further validation of what we’ve been saying - that obtaining 20% or more of America’s electricity from wind turbines is an achievable and desirable goal for our economy, environment, and energy security. Now the only question is whether Congress and the Administration will step up and enact the policies that will allow us to get there.”

24May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Governors Seek National Power Standard
to Boost Wind Industry

Congress must set a national renewable-power standard and revamp the electric grid to help the burgeoning U.S. wind-energy industry reach its potential and compete globally, governors from 29 states said.

16Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Industry’s Challenge of Co-Existing
with Wildlife in Wyoming and Elsewhere

The problem with the Wyoming approach is that it is not based on extensive information about how wind projects impact sage grouse. “We don’t have the information about how wind affects sage grouse,” says Laurie Jodziewicz, AWEA’s manager of siting policy. “And we have little opportunity to do research because you can’t build in the core areas.”

16Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Windpower Should Get Fair Shake in Wyoming

What modern realities? Wind more environmentally detrimental than oil and gas leasing? Hardly. As for the level playing field, with wind paying big property taxes and big sales taxes on multimillion-dollar pieces of equipment, it is hard to imagine why the governor thinks wind energy is getting a “free ride.”

14Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State One of Top Five to Add Wind Capacity in Q3

The Cowboy State added 170 MW of capacity from July through September, and, no doubt, the major wind farm developments of Duke Energy were instrumental in Wyoming hitting that high number.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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U.S. Wind Installations Dip in Second Quarter

Troubling is that the installed capacity is a significant decrease from the installations made in the first quarter of 2009, and the industry’s future course remains unclear without a federal renewable-electricity standard, according to the AWEA.

28Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New BLM Offices to Streamline Renewables Permitting in State

The new offices will work to fast track the permitting of solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy projects. Wyoming ranks seventh in the nation for wind resources, but is 13th for installed capacity.

21Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued