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Siemens awarded 407 MW wind energy order
Siemens will provide SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines for MidAmerican Energy's recently announced 103.5 MW Vienna wind farm; 200.1 MW Eclipse wind power project; and 101.2 MW Morning Light wind energy project. The contract includes a five-year service,
Bipartisan Senate group presses Reid, McConnell on wind tax credit
“If we are to expect wind energy to contribute to our country's future energy needs, Congress must quickly work to reauthorize the wind production tax credit before our wind production capabilities are damaged,” it adds. Senators including Jerry Moran
Prince council wants to knock wind out of Green Energy Act
At Zuccato's urging, they agreed at February's regular meeting to adopt two resolutions that target the negative aspects of wind energy and underline the goal of many municipalities to regain their voice in deciding whether renewable energy projects
Tax-credit collapse takes the wind out of local wind-power industry's sails
That's the general reaction this week among Illinois business owners and executives running wind-energy companies in the wake of last week's news that a federal wind-energy tax credit won't be extended beyond the end of this year.
ISU Students Protest Coal Plant
The rally was expected to include speeches by ISU's executive assistant to president, the Iowa Wind Energy Association executive director and the Physicians for Social Responsibility's former national president, as originally reported on KGAN.
MidAmerican to buy wind turbines from Iowa manufacturer
The order comes at a particularly sensitive time for the wind energy industry in Iowa and throughout the US Last week congress declined to include the 2.2 cents per megawatt hour production tax credit to the Payroll Tax Bill, considered the best
Tighter restrictions for wind farms rejected
Board member Lyle Hopkins, Polo, said that even if the motion did not pass, wind energy companies will have to apply for a special use permit to build a wind cfarm and go through the permitting process, including hearings before the ZBA.
Wind energy: Bennet visits composites factory, urges PTC extension
US Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) toured a Hexcel composites manufacturing plant in Windsor, Colo., yesterday and expressed strong support for an extension of the federal wind power Production Tax Credit (PTC). The Hexcel plant, which employs 103
Permit sought to realign Papaka
Auwahi Wind Energy will go before the state Board of Land and Natural Resources on Friday to seek a conservation district use permit to realign Papaka Road on Ulupalakua Ranch land. "The use of Papaka Road for the transportation of large and heavy
Obama Proposes Tax Reform, Making Renewables Credits Permanent
Renewable energy sectors have shivered over the expiration of the production tax credit; the Section 1603 grant program's expiration at the end of 2011 has been criticized by the solar sector, while wind energy giant Vestas has already warned that
Halt wind turbines until rural concerns satisfied: Ontario lobby
“We are surprised and disappointed the OFA is proposing to put thousands of jobs at risk in Ontario and limit the ability of farmers to participate in Ontario's clean energy economy,” Canadian Wind Energy Association president Robert Hornung said in a
Murky revelations reveal climate change sceptic group plans to step up its attack
Honest discussion about climate change — like how wind energy and other renewables can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning fossil fuels — is already long overdue. Those who wonder why it seems to take governments so long to go
Japan falls behind in new wind power generation in 2011: survey.
in Japan's new wind power installations fell from the previous year's 221 megawatts and accounted for only 0.4 percent of the overall 41236 megawatts of the global output capacity of such installations, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.
