PTC

Tags: wind power, congress, PTC, ITC, renewable energy, clean energy
December 6 -- With a December 31 deadline looming, Congress remains sharply divided over extending the federal wind power production tax credit (PTC), which grants wind power producers a tax credit ... [ +++ ]

Tags: Congress, veterans, wind energy, renewable energy, production tax credit, PTC, Colorado
November 30 -- As Congress debates how to solve the looming fiscal cliff, time is also running out for renewal of a tax credit promoting wind energy production.  Its end-of-year expiration date ... [ +++ ]

Tags: Air Force, George H. W. Bush, PTC, wind energy, biofuels, RFS, energy dependence, national security
November 29 -- As a twenty year veteran of the Air Force, much of my service revolved around issues of energy dependency and national security. Early in my career, I had the opportunity to serve on ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind energy, senate, wind production tax credit, PTC, renewable energy, republican
November 29 -- Wind energy companies should focus on ensuring that the tax credit at the center of their industry survives at all in coming months, and not so much on trying to beef it up next year, ... [ +++ ]

Tags: PTC, wind energy, renewable energy, election
November 12 -- GCube, the leading provider of underwriting services for renewable energy projects, has launched an insurance solution to cover losses incurred by wind energy developers or contractors ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind energy, Texas, AWEA, renewable energy, Texas Tech, clean energy, PTC, energy polucy
November 5 -- Wind energy construction continues to increase across the U.S., with Texas leading the nation in new wind energy construction, according to the American Wind Energy Association, local wind ... [ +++ ]

Tags: energy independence, all of the above energy strategy, energy policy, renewable energy, wind power, PTC, energy subsidies, oil, natural gas, coal, American manufacturing, jobs, economy
By ACORE CEO and President, Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn During the final sprint to Election Day, Americans will hear political leaders point fingers as they attempt to explain why the U.S. is experiencing ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind farm, renewable energy costs, clean energy, wind power, PTC, fossil fuel
November 2 -- The cost of running and maintaining wind farms has fallen 38 percent in four years as competition among contractors increased and turbine performance improved, bringing closer the day ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind industry, tax credit, Production tax credit, PTC, renewable energy, RETECH2012, election, politics, oil, fossil-fuel, innovation
By George Dearing With an industry tax credit in jeopardy and new projects at a virtual standstill in the U.S., you might have expected the wind industry to come limping into RETECH2012. Instead, the ... [ +++ ]

Tags: venture capital, wind energy, clean energy, PTC, Congress, investment, renewable energy
October 26 -- Venture-capital (VC) funding in the wind energy sector jumped to $57 million in six deals in the third quarter, compared to just $17 million in three deals in the second quarter, according ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind, Colorado, AWEA, renewable energy, electricity, PTC, Congress, jobs
October 25 --  The amount of electricity Colorado can generate from the wind is expected to grow by 26 percent before the year ends.  That will boost the state’s total capacity for wind power ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind, PTC, renewable energy, GE, AWEA, Vestas
October 19 --  “We haven’t released our numbers, but it will be a record year in the US,” he says.  GE also has the four next highest US wind capacity installs including 3.58GW in 2008, ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind energy, PTC, military, veterans, renewable energy, Congress, Mitt Romney, election
October 19 -- A group of military veterans pressed congressional Republicans on Thursday to renew a tax credit for the wind industry that their party's standard-bearer, Mitt Romney, has vowed to end. ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind energy, PTC, renewable energy, clean energy, jobs, economy, election
October 11 -- Those giant wind turbines that line ridges across the Northwest have brought green energy and construction jobs to many rural areas. But some of those jobs could disappear next year. That’s ... [ +++ ]

Tags: wind power, electricity, US, renewable energy, PTC, clean energy
October 11 -- Here’s something that shouldn’t surprise anyone: A company that benefits from high power prices is lobbying for policies that would raise power prices for consumers. What should surprise ... [ +++ ]

Tags: renewable energy, Ohio State University, clean energy, wind energy, PTC, college, wind farm, wind power
October 9 -- In what is expected to be one of the single largest purchases of renewable energy by any university in the country, The Ohio State University has announced it will buy 50 megawatts of wind ... [ +++ ]

Tags: Nevada, wind energy, clean energy, renewable energy, PTC, production tax credit, geothermal, geothermal energy
September 28 -- Thirty years ago, President Gerald Ford stated that “compromise is the oil that makes governments go.” Oil, in a literal sense, was what brought President Ford and me together for the first ... [ +++ ]

Tags: Michigan, Ohio, renewable energy, clean energy, clean energy jobs, green jobs, PTC, production tax credit
September 29 -- Michigan and Ohio may soon be facing off on the regional electric grid, where power generated by utilities in each state gets distributed. >>View Article [ +++ ]

Tags: clean energy, corporate renewable energy index, production tax credit, PTC, renewable energy, renewable energy industry, Renewable energy investment, renewable energy policy, wind energy
September 25 -- Companies are at the leading edge of wind globally, not least in the US. Starbucks recently sent a joint letter with 18 other US companies to Congress to request an extension of the Production ... [ +++ ]

Tags: PTC, renewable energy, renewable energy industry, renewable energy jobs, renewable energy policy, wind energy
September 19 -- Businesses that support wind power are turning up the pressure on Congress to extend a tax incentive for the industry before it expires at the end of the year. Nineteen businesses ... [ +++ ]