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Wind Investors, The Time To Act Is Now
We are reaching the peak of a seller's market for the cash portion of tax equity membership interest in operating U.S. renewable energy...
Trudeau’s Win Puts Canada Back In Position To Be A Global Energy Leader
When Justin Trudeau, Canada's new prime minister, took the stage Monday night to address Canadians after the Liberal party's election win, he emphasized...
California Confronts Climate Change: What It Means To Boost Its Renewable Portfolio Standard To...
On Oct. 7, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., D-Calif., signed S.B.350, the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015, into law. This...
Wind, Birds And Bats: Recent Legal Migrations
Wind energy has rapidly migrated from a small to significant source of energy generation, resulting in increased attention to and regulation of wind...
Why The EPA’s Clean Power Plan Resonates In Canada
On Aug. 3, President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final version of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), aimed...
What Colorado’s Tax Policy Change Could Mean For Wind Power
Colorado has amended its energy tax credit statute to provide for a refundable election for tax credits earned by investing in renewable energy...
A Technical Overview Of The EPA’s Sweeping New CO2 Rules
On Monday, President Barack Obama and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced the roll-out of the Clean Power Plan (CPP)...
U.K. Court Invalidates Enercon Patent, But Is This The End Of The Story?
A decision by the High Court of Justice in the U.K. has dealt a blow to turbine manufacturer Enercon concerning its patent related...
Small-Wind Industry Given Grace Period For Compliance With IRS Engineering Standards
On July 14, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Notice 2015-51, which postpones the effective date of safety and performance standards mandated for...
Illinois RPS Update: Energy Bill Awaits National Signals
The long-fought effort to fix Illinois' broken renewable portfolio standard (RPS) is in a holding pattern for the summer as lawmakers and other...
EIA Analysis: Wind Energy Is The Lowest-Cost Option For Reducing Carbon Emissions
(Editor's note: The following article was reprinted with permission by the American Wind Energy Association.) Low-cost, zero-emission wind energy will become even more...
New Wine In An Old Bottle? Inside The Feds’ MBTA Incidental Take Proposal
On May 26, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) initiated an environmental review of a proposed permitting program for authorizing the incidental...
Having His Say: Alberta Election Raises Hopes For Renewables, New Ideas
Editor's note: The following is reprinted with permission from the Canadian Wind Energy Association's (CanWEA) wind power blog. For the first time in...
The Northern Long-Eared Bat: What A Threatened Listing Means For Wind Energy Projects
Threatened species are those at risk of becoming endangered, and such a listing triggers a number of regulatory requirements to prevent further declines....
CanWEA: Wind Is The Responsible Choice For Alberta
Editor's note: The following is reprinted with permission from the Canadian Wind Energy Association's (CanWEA) wind power blog. There has been a lot...
Natural Gas Parity: The Next Hurdle For Wind’s LCOE
The near-term U.S. wind power outlook is fairly clear, with a pipeline of more than 14 GW of high-probability projects supported by the...
The Triple Threat To Kansas Wind: How Legislation May Wipe Out Current And Future...
Despite wind energy's strong record of success in Kansas, a faction of state legislators have continued to introduce a series of bills designed...
How Adding A Second, Smaller Rotor May Increase Energy Output
Hui Hu picked up a 3D-printed model of a typical wind turbine and began explaining two problems with the big, tall, three-bladed machines....
IRS Unveils Favorable PTC Guidance On ‘Start Of Construction’
On Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Notice 2015-25, which provides guidance the wind power industry has been waiting for since the...
Slow Turning: What’s Stopping Individual Blade Pitch Control From Wider Acceptance?
In recent years, there has been a slow shift from collective pitch control (adjusting the blade angles on all three blades equally at...