Buffett’s MidAmerican has 6% of U.S. wind, will own 14% of solar
Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. accounts for 6 percent of U.S. wind-energy capacity and will generate about 14 percent of the nation’s solar power when it...
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
BNEF: China had 35% of world's onshore wind capacity last year
China accounted for more than a third of all newly installed onshore wind power capacity last year, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Facing expiring tax credit, wind industry posts record year for new capacity added
Wind accounted for 13,124 megawatts of new power in 2012, more than any other energy source, according to the indiustry.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
Wind production tax credit extension approved in 'fiscal cliff' deal
A one-year extension to a wind power credit made it into the final “fiscal cliff” bargain Tuesday, much to the delight of green groups and the wind industry.
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Top wind industry lobbyist Denise Bode to resign
Denise Bode, chief executive with the American Wind Energy Association, will leave her post Jan. 1.
Friday, December 14th, 2012
Wind industry calls for 6-year phaseout of PTC subsidy
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) sent a letter to Congressional leaders accepting a six-year phase-down of its vital production tax credit (PTC) in return for...
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Obama win raises odds of extending wind PTC
President Barack Obama’s re-election will probably be followed by Congress extending a renewable- energy tax credit, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
Wind credit uncertainty dents GE revenues
The uncertainty surrounding a wind industry tax credit decreased General Electric’s energy infrastructure revenues 5 percent in the third-quarter as wind turbine sales...
U.S. wind industry adding record number of turbines
Oct 19 (Reuters) - U.S. wind power developers are installingrecord-high numbers of turbines in 2012 but that growth couldweaken if a production tax credit expires at the...
Friday, October 12th, 2012
Vestas fires 18% of workers at two Colorado blade factories
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, fired about 18 percent of its Colorado manufacturing workers at two blade factories this week.
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Political storms threaten Europe's offshore wind goals
Political wavering in Britain, the world's biggest offshore wind market, is casting doubt on European ambitions to build a fleet of gigantic turbines out at sea,...
Friday, October 5th, 2012
Deepwater to build America's first offshore wind farm off Rhode Island
Deepwater Wind is racing to build the first U.S. offshore wind farm off Rhode Island and hopes to parlay that into a string of East Coast farms, the company's chief...
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Chinese-owned company sues Obama over wind farm project
A Chinese-owned company sued President Barack Obama for barring its Oregon wind-farm project as a national security risk, claiming the order violates its constitutional...
Monday, October 1st, 2012
Obama blocks China investment in US wind farm companies
The Obama administration announced Friday that it would block an attempt by a Chinese-owned company to acquire four wind farm companies in the United States.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Conservatives urge Boehner to nix U.S. wind tax credit
Forty-seven Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing Speaker John Boehner to eliminate the wind production tax credit, a tax break that has split...
Friday, September 21st, 2012
As a tax credit wanes, jobs vanish in wind power industry
The industry has been buffeted by weak demand for electricity, stiff competition from cheap natural gas and uncertainty over the fate of an important tax credit set to...
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Colorado senators pin layoffs on wind energy tax credit uncertainty
Colorado’s senators on Wednesday blamed congressional inaction on a tax credit benefiting wind power producers for a recent round of layoffs in their state.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Wind accounts for one-third of new energy-generating capacity in US
In 2011, roughly one-third of the new generating capacity installed within the US was in the form of wind turbines, according to a new report prepared by the Department of...
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Wind industry wins Senate panel’s support for production tax credit
A Senate committee passed a bill in favor of a tax break for the wind industry on a bipartisan vote on Thursday, helped by Republicans from states where wind power is common.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Romney campaign: Let wind energy credit die this year
Mitt Romney’s campaign said Monday that he wants longstanding tax credits that help finance wind energy projects to expire at year’s end, providing a stark political...
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