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11 Oct '12, 3pm

As #windpower #jobs blow away, pressure 4 #PTC extension rises: #windworks #windenergy #ecdev

As AWEA has been predicting for months, layoffs are mounting in the U.S. wind energy and related industries due to Congress's delay in extending the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC). The PTC is an incentive that reduces taxes on the operators of wind farms and leaves more of the money they earn from electricity sales in private hands, helping to attract private investment not only in wind projects, but in component manufacturers, suppliers, trucking companies and more. As an article on wind in Texas in Monday's San Angelo (Tex.) Standard-Times puts it, "Many other businesses benefit, too, including truckers, hotels, restaurants and hardware stores." The article quotes Greg Wortham, executive director of the Texas Wind Energy Clearinghouse information exchange, on the need for members of Congress to support wind as part of an all-of-the-above national energy ...

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awea.org 12 Oct '12, 4pm

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awea.org 10 Oct '12, 4pm

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awea.org 16 Oct '12, 2pm

recent study on wind power's economic impacts at the county level didn't promote it as a basis for extending the federal w...

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awea.org 15 Oct '12, 2pm

San Angelo (Tex.) Standard Times became the latest of many newspapers to endorse an extension of the federal wind energy P...

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awea.org 17 Oct '12, 3pm

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awea.org 09 Oct '12, 3pm

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awea.org 18 Oct '12, 3pm

An article in yesterday's edition of the Kearney (Neb.) Hub newspaper tells the story of what a single wind farm is doing ...

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awea.org 22 Oct '12, 2pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), attending a Montana wind farm groundbreaking Thursday, said he bel...

Wind bearing maker 2 close #SouthCarolina plant...

awea.org 05 Oct '12, 3pm

manufacturer of wind turbine bearings said yesterday that it will close one of three plants in Sumter, S.C., that make par...

#Winnebago #tribal leader calls 4 #PTC extensio...

awea.org 01 Oct '12, 3pm

Sioux City (S.D.) Journal yesterday, the Chairman of the Winnebago Tribal Council, John Blackhawk, called for extension of...

US and UK farmers are turning to owning their o...

awea.org 13 Oct '12, 3am

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#Massachusetts Republican, Democrat see #windpo...

awea.org 04 Oct '12, 4pm

With the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center reporting that there are 8,250 wind energy jobs in the Bay State, U.S. Sen. Sco...

.@SenBennetCO: Inaction on #PTC 'hurting Colora...

awea.org 23 Oct '12, 2pm

In an op-ed published in yesterday's edition of the Fort Collins Coloradoan, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), referring...