Its annual State of the Industry report claimed a record 1, 701MW of wind projects were approved onshore this year, compared to 1, 142MW last year - a jump of nearly 50%.
The state of Wyoming, which is actually a very big producer of wind power, is now actually considering taxing -- in other words, taking away what you guys are providing with your tax break.
Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.
Grid operators in the Pacific Northwest have repeatedly pulled the plug on several large wind farms in Oregon and Washington State, collectively curtailing roughly 13 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind power since last Wednesday.
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Three national environmental groups on Friday sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of a planned NextEra Energy Resources wind farm in the Tehachapi region of California that state and federal wildlife officials had warned threatens the critically endangered California condor.
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One reason the wind power sector has grown so rapidly in Texas is that the state's oil industry has decades of experience building big projects like wind farms.
President Barack Obama has stopped a Chinese company from building wind turbines in the US state of Oregon, citing national security concerns, his administration said.
Today he talked about making sure people in Colorado have the benefit of the wind tax credit that we know hundreds, thousands of jobs in this state rely on.
D. student from Penn State University, trying to yell over the gusts of wind.
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In some areas where the constraints are especially acute like Oregon and Washington State, the lack of spare transmission capacity could force wind farms that have already been built to shut down on a rolling basis in the near future.
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Or you could wind up in more trouble than your current state of financial confusion.
Wind power accounts for 3% of the state's electricity, compared with 1% nationwide.
Then there are the renewable portfolio standards, which mandate that a third of the state's energy come from renewable sources like wind and the sun by 2020.
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The state could meet up to 17 percent of its total electricity needs via wind, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Google said Wednesday that it has signed a first-of-its-kind deal with an Oklahoma utility to buy 48 megawatts of wind energy to help power its data center in that state.
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This effort is set to accelerate over the next two years if the New York State Public Service Commission approves a multi-million dollar feasibility study of offshore wind power near New York City.
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State mandates for renewable energy generation have driven much of the increase in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and other forms of clean power over the past decade.
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According to a poll released last month by Fallon Research, nearly 80 percent of Ohio voters support laws requiring the state to produce a portion of its electricity from clean energy sources like solar and wind.
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Merck has better facts on its side--it pulled Vioxx off the market early on, and it's unlikely many more plaintiffs will emerge before state statute of limitations laws doom their claims--but the company could easily wind up spending two to three times as much as it expects.
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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About 500 megawatts of wind power are on the drawing boards, with the Victorian government aiming to have 10 per cent of the state's electricity, or 1000 megawatts, generated by renewable energy sources such as wind farms by 2006.
China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005 and 20 per cent of the power supply to the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will come from wind generators, according to the official state agency, Xinhua.
Cape Wind has signed long-term contracts to sell 78% of its power to the state's largest utilities.
"The economics are favorable for wind investment given tax credits" and state regulations that require electric companies to boost their use of renewable power, they wrote.
Some state programs also legislate mandatory renewable portfolio standards that require electric utility companies to purchase designated amounts of energy from wind, solar and bio-fuel providers, typically at premium costs that are passed on to customers.
Wind is by far the cheapest of the renewable energy technologies, so wind development should grow steadily over the next several years as state renewable power mandates toughen and the federal government contemplates putting a price on carbon.
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