The Arizona senator delivered his speech at the U.S. headquarters of Vestas, a Danish wind-energy company.
California, which isn't located in the "wind belt, " is America's second-largest wind-energy producer but also its costliest.
Renewables such as windmills promote trade and market integration by prodding governments to link up national grids, says Peter Brun of the Danish wind-energy firm, Vestas.
Colorado has quadrupled wind-energy production since the governor came in.
Not only is this activity funded privately, it also generates additional tax revenues to state, local and federal coffers instead of losing tax payer money on heavily subsidized solar and wind-energy projects.
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And here is the opening for the next profit niche with a social purpose, says Rory Stear of Freeplay Energy, the company that develops and sells 'wind-up' energy generators best known in the 'wind-up radio'.
And we have to have other forms of renewable energy - wind energy, solar energy.
In this fall's bank bailout bill, a provision was added to renew many of these tax credits for eight years--but tax credits for wind-produced energy were extended only through 2009.
Stylishly outfitted in a red dress and high heels she could easily have been taken for another young woman with an idea regarding customized haute couture, but hardly like a technology entrepreneur working to develop a potentially groundbreaking invention in wind-generated energy.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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But the government's chief energy scientist, David MacKay, has warned that the UK would need to increase its nuclear fleet four-fold or its wind energy 20-fold to decarbonise heavy industry.
Right now, homegrown energy, things like wind energy -- creating new jobs all across the states like Iowa -- and Governor Romney wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers.
In mid-July, the department's Mineral Management Services, which controls the mineral rights on federal lands, asserted its jurisdiction over renewable energy projects--wind, wave, solar and tidal energy--on federal waters in the Outer Continental Shelf.
Yesterday you heard him talk about an entirely different substantive policy issue and high light it -- the wind energy tax credit that supports 75, 000 -- 37, 000 jobs and an industry that has 75, 000 jobs across the country, and that -- let me just restate that.
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Waterfall added that FloDesign's low-wind technology has the potential not only to revolutionize wind-power technology, but also to make wind-power a viable energy solution for New England's energy needs.
The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
In 2009, the Wind Energy Association believed that, in comparison to 2008, there would be -- the growth in wind energy would be about half what it had been in 2008 based on the availability of credit.
Ambitious plans for offshore renewable energy projects are crowding the waters--floating wind farms, tidal-power turbines and wave-energy barges--all expected in the next decade.
This would spur both industrial development in places like the Great Plains--rich in everything from fossil fuels to wind power--while keeping energy prices down for U.S. consumers and firms.
The lime-green devices run on electromotive energy from a wind-up mechanism--thus allowing the machines to be used in areas lacking a regular power supply.
And now you're seeing all across Ohio some of the -- this state has received more funds than just about anybody in order to build on that clean energy economy -- new cutting-edge wind turbines and batteries that are going to be going into energy-efficient cars.
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In order to make wind energy cost-effective, one has to keep initial component costs as low as possible.
Too many U.S. manufacturing jobs have moved offshore including jobs making solar panels, wind turbines, energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.
When asked if they would be for or against the development of large-scale wind energy projects being built in their council area, 77% of SNP supporters, 71% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 64% of Labour supporters and 53% of Conservative supporters said they were in favour.
Installed by UGE Iberia, the Spanish branch of New York-based Urban Green Energy, the first wind-powered EV charging station is located at Cespa's global headquarters near Barcelona.
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Also, since the necessarily erratic nature of wind power necessitates the development of energy-storage technologies to guarantee continuous supply, wind power can also act as a spur to the development of a hydrogen economy in which cars no longer require petroleum fuel.
If this happens--and if tax incentives for wind and solar energy are attached to other legislation--the renewable industries might even come out ahead in the end.
"Given that, this year, WWF have chosen the focus of Earth Hour to be renewable energy, I am delighted that new You Gov polling shows cross-party support for wind energy, " he said.
WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.
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