All Posts Tagged With: "Wyoming wind industry"

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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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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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Albany County Approves Wind Regulations
for Small Systems

The commissioners approved amendments to their small wind energy systems regulations that will change the height, setback distance and noise requirements for noncommercial wind turbines.

11Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Energy Is Variable — But Not Completely Random and Unpredictable

Let’s be clear: I am not, repeat not, saying that wind power can serve as a source of electricity to meet peak demand in the same way as fueled power plants. At the same time, wind turbines should not be criticized for not operating all the time. No power plant operates all the time.

22Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Exploring Jobs in Green Technologies

Wyoming in May had wind projects totaling 1,412 megawatts of power already online, with nearly 7,870 in the queue, according to the American Wind Energy Association. The wind power industry in the state supported between 500 and 1,000 direct and indirect jobs in 2010.

11Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Tax Issue to Be Re-Visited by Legislature

Earlier this year, lawmakers in Cheyenne narrowly defeated a bill to restructure its policy on taxing wind developments. But that was just the first skirmish, as legislators brought up the issue again last week during the Joint Revenue Interim Committee’s meeting in picturesque Saratoga.

16May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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PacifiCorp Starts Up 111MW Wind Farm
in Carbon County

“These are cost-effective resources that are needed to help meet our customers’ growing electricity needs in Wyoming and the other five states we serve, NOT for exporting electricity to power-hungry market in the Southwest,” said Mark Tallman, PacifiCorp vice president of renewable resource.

16Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Top of the World Wind Energy Project Now “Live”

The 200-megawatt (MW) wind farm, located in Converse County, supplies wind energy to PacifiCorp under the terms of a 20-year power purchase agreement. The 110 wind turbines that comprise the Top of the World project are capable of producing enough electricity to power approximately 60,000 homes.

12Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Part of Bullish View of Western
Wind Power

The authors of the comprehensive NREL study tackled the intermittency supposition head on and found it largely baseless. It concluded that in the West, the broad distribution of wind turbines and solar generation would essentially smooth out the supply of renewable power.

2Jun2010 | 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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Developers Forging Ahead with Wyo-Colo Transmission Line

Despite slow going, a power transmission project line linking the wind fields of southeast Wyoming and Colorado’s Front Range is still being pushed by developers — New Jersey-based LS Power and the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority.

15Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy Groups Relieved Sage Grouse will
Not be Listed

Friday’s announcement by the Interior Department that it won’t list the bird as an endangered or threatened species has energy industries operating in the West breathing a little easier. The oil and gas, wind and solar industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but much less so than if the bird had made the list.

8Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Public Meeting on Feb 24th for White Mountain Wind Project

Teton Wind is proposing to construct up to 240 wind turbines on roughly 13,165 acres atop White Mountain, which lies west and northwest of Rock Springs.

9Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Seeks Public Comment on Proposed
Wind Development Changes

Wyoming officials say the key change — a modification of how surface damages are paid - should benefit both wind energy developers and existing state land lessees. Wyoming is seeking public comment on the new rules during hearings that will be held throughout next month.

8Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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