All Posts Tagged With: "Wyoming wind industry"

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Study Blasts Wind Production Tax Credit

The wind production tax credit (PTC), is wasteful, distorts markets and has been on the books long enough for the industry to stand on its own, a new study says. “We find that the vast majority of the Nation’s wind resources fail to produce any electricity when our customers need it most,” according to Exelon’s report.

26Oct2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Supposed Decline of Green Energy

This significant win for clean energy has gone mostly unnoticed in the press. If anything, the story has been the opposite: recent reports herald the decline of wind, and for a year the media has made a big deal out of the demise of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra.

3Oct2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Governor Calls for State Energy Policy

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead told the annual convention of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming that both the state and nation are challenged because there is no federal energy policy. But he also said “Our hands aren’t entirely clean,” he said. “We’re working on the state’s energy policy. We don’t
want to be in a reactive mode …”

23Aug2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Colorado’s Udall Pushes for PTC Extension

For the past few weeks, I have taken to the U.S. Senate floor to convince my colleagues to save a bright spot in American manufacturing jobs: the wind industry. The wind energy sector employs 75,000 hard-working Americans in well-paying jobs … Those jobs have a tremendous positive ripple effect in their communities that extends to our economic and energy health.

2Jul2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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U.S., Global Renewable Energy Investment Sector Faces Challenging Year

“The growth of China’s wind sector continues to be stifled by insufficient access to the grid, while a boom-bust scenario appears to have returned to the U.S. as a result of uncertainty over the expiry of key stimulus programs,” says Gil Forer, Ernst & Young’s global cleantech leader.

3Jun2012 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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