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Utilities taking advantage of wind PTC
The New Year extension of the Production Tax Credit has made wind energy attractive to electric utilities and customers alike.
Wind vital to China's grid
China's road to offshore wind is littered with challenges and bottlenecks, but the country charges on.
Global wind experiencing growing pains
Despite the ongoing growth expected in global wind power installed capacity, the tides could change as a result of several challenges.
More record-setting winds raging
In one day, the 1.1 million homes and businesses PSE serves got 23.5 percent of their electricity from the utility's three Eastern Washington wind farms -- a new production record.
Wind whipping Texas coal generation
Since 2008, Texas has seen significant changes in the electricity market, to the point where wind power and natural gas prices have made large, capital-intensive coal plants uneconomic.
Utilities could feel pain from PTC extension
The wind energy PTC extension will allow continued growth of the wind industry, which has totaled 35 percent of all new electric generation in America over the past five years.
More utilities buying, owning wind power
In 2012, for the first time in the United States, wind energy was the top source for new electricity capacity at 42 percent of new capacity added, accounting for the majority of the 55 percent total of combined renewable energy installed in the U.S.
Implications of the FERC BPA wind ruling
When the Bonneville Power Administration made the decision to limit spillover at its dams and force wind energy providers to curtail generation during an oversupply event in spring 2011, it may have unwittingly opened a different type of floodgate.
Wind assessment consistency on the horizon
A wind energy assessment framework two years in the making will lead to more transparency and advancements in the quantification of project losses and uncertainties.
After slow 2012, global wind likely to pick up
Even after lackluster growth in 2012 due to global economic concerns, the wind industry is likely to pick up speed in 2013.
