According to wind energy industry players, the PTC remains crucial for the continued ascendance of wind power.
The wind energy industry has some breathing room with the extension of its much-valued production tax credit.
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The wind energy industry has benefited from the support of billionaire oilman T.
If the production tax credit is removed, Burnett says that the wind energy industry is no longer a viable concern.
The wind energy industry experienced a banner year in 2012.
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The wind energy industry lost a pioneer last month when Corwin Hardham, the athletic, kitesurfing CEO of Makani Power, died at his desk at the age of 38.
On Friday, the wind energy industry, which would be the biggest beneficiary of the national standard, launched a media blitz to try to sway at least 11 key members of Congress to vote for Udall's plan.
The Welsh Assembly Government said it was "working closely with affected highway authorities, police forces and the wind energy industry to resolve the transportation issues and develop a strategic traffic management approach to the movement of these loads".
They go on to say that wind energy serves as a hedge against volatile energy prices, adding that the tax credit has enabled the wind industry to cut its energy costs by 90 percent since 1980.
The world still needs energy, argues Steve Sawyer, the head of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group, and even if banks are slower to lend, utilities can often afford to pay for new generation out of their own revenues.
According to Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, which represents the interests of the wind power industry, the court's decisions and the investment in renewable fuels illustrates the "growing consensus" that something must be done to curb global warming.
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.
Two elements that did not make it into the Senate's bill: a one-year extension of investment tax credits for the solar energy industry and production tax credits for the wind, geothermal and biomass industries.
Beijing has since raised the technical bar for wind farms to connect to their energy grid, and now industry experts predict that a larger number of companies will be forced out of the sector altogether in the next three years, trade barriers or not.
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That's why my administration is taking steps to support a thriving clean energy industry across this country -- an industry that's making solar panels, and building wind turbines, producing cutting-edge batteries for fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and helping consumers get more control over their energy bills.
We talked about the vitally important need to extend the wind energy tax credit that has bipartisan support, that the industry has made clear if not extended could threaten up to 37, 000 jobs in the United States, and that is part of an overall vision for an all-of-the above energy future that the President has put forward at a substantive policy level again and again.
"It does take a while to get the industry re-started, " said Peter Kelley of the American Wind Energy Alliance, which has tracked thousands of layoffs caused by credit uncertainty.
Thanks to that push, the Energy Information Administration estimated that the industry would set a record for total wind power installations in the U.S., potentially topping 12, 000 megawatts of installed capacity.
For investors looking to capitalize on a booming global market for wind energy, the First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy Index Fund ( FAN) and the PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio ( PWND) offer a wide range of globally diversified stocks in the industry.
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One of seven organizations competing for this funding is the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo), which aims to stimulate an offshore freshwater wind industry in Northeast Ohio.
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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While clean-energy groups have frequently made the mistake of bringing knives to gun fights, the wind industry appears well armed to say the least.
Corin Millais, chief executive of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), says there has been a big change in the way the industry has developed during the past five years.
Today the Solar Energy Industry Association issued its 2009 year-end report, following similar reports from the American Wind Energy Association and the Geothermal Energy Association.
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