All posts tagged "tax incentives"

The two things Bjoern Lomborg gets right in his November 11 Wall Street Journal op-ed are: 1)...

Guest blog by Vanessa Tutos, Director, Government Affairs, EDP Renewables North America Wind power provides remarkable economic...

Wind turbine blade manufacturer LM Wind Power is boosting capacity in its U.S. manufacturing base, adding more...

Robert Michaels, a Senior Fellow at the fossil fuel industry-funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), is testifying...

House Republicans and Democrats joined together last week to co-sign a letter to the House Committee on...

By Elizabeth Salerno, Chief Economist and Director of Industry Data and Analysis, American Wind Energy Association Michael...

Attempting to fact check an opponent when the facts are not on your side is a difficult...

The Institute for Energy Research (IER), a group that represents the interests of fossil fuel energy sources, has a recent blog post that purports to be a “fact check.” Embarrassingly, its fact check not only failed to find a single thing that was incorrect in AWEA’s statements, but also made its own...

Recently, Yahoo.com carried an article by Susan Graybeal, who unfortunately relied on the Institute for Energy Research (IER), an anti-wind group funded by fossil fuel interests, for a discussion of the wind energy industry's prospects. With the January 1 extension of the production tax credit (PTC), the wind energy industry is getting...

Charles K. Ebinger’s January 7 Brookings opinion piece about the production tax credit does get one thing right. It is true that over a project’s lifetime, wind power ultimately drives investment and consumer savings that more than pays for the tax relief it receives. That’s the result of a smart and worthwhile...