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PTC and the IRS: Safe Harbor Extended One Year
The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2020-41, which will provide wind power developers with an extra year on top of the existing four-year...
U.S. Loses 594,300 Clean Energy Jobs
Nearly 600,000 U.S. clean energy workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic after 447,208 new workers filed unemployment claims...
Wind Power PTC Safe Harbor Relief Is Coming
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is poised to adjust the current safe-harbor guidelines for both the production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax...
CRES Advocates for Clean Energy
To preserve and grow the U.S. workforce and economy following the devastating impact of COVID-19, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) has delivered to...
Senators Pen Letter Seeking to Extend Safe Harbor
Six U.S. Senators have written a letter addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin seeking to extend the safe harbor provisions provided under...
Clean Energy Workers Feel the Effects of COVID-19
More than 106,000 clean energy workers lost their jobs in the month of March, and hundreds of thousands more clean energy job losses are...
National GHG Emissions Fall 10 Percent Since 2005
Since 2005, national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have fallen by 10%, and power sector emissions have fallen by 27% - even as our economy...
AWEA Releases COVID-19 Outlook
COVID-19 will pose significant challenges to the American wind power industry, which represents the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S. and over...
Clean Energy Sector Pens Letter to Congress
In a letter delivered to U.S. House and Senate leadership, the clean energy sector has called for the prompt repair and extension of critically...
Bristol Community College Awarded Grant for Offshore Wind Program
Bristol Community College says it has been awarded an $861,097 grant from the Baker-Polito Administration to implement the innovative National Offshore Wind Institute (NOWI)...
Vineyard Wind Permitting Is Delayed
Vineyard Wind says the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) permitting timeline for the Vineyard Wind 1 Project has been lengthened.
“We...
The White House Commits to Offshore Wind Power
The White House has called for increased spending on efforts to manage the growth of offshore renewable energy development - including offshore wind energy...
House Passes Bill with Wind PTC Extension Included
The House passed a tax extenders package this week that includes a one-year extension of the production tax credit (PTC) for wind but failed...
Kerfuffle Coming for Nation Rise Wind Farm?
EDP Renewables Canada Ltd. (EDPR) says it is considering taking legal action upon the Ontario Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks’ recent decision...
Brouillette Confirmed As Next DOE Secretary
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Dan Brouillette to be the 15th U.S. Secretary of Energy, taking the place of Rick Perry, who recently resigned...
GREEN Act Proposes PTC, ITC Extensions
U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., has introduced the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act, which includes an extension of the wind power...
Lawmakers Reintroduce Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act
U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., and Peter T. King, R-N.Y., have introduced the Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act of 2019 (H.R.4887).
Currently, the...
What’s Up With Offshore Wind?
In August, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the branch of the Department of the Interior tasked with managing energy development on the...
Lawmakers Seek To Boost Federal Wind R&D Funding
U.S. Sens. Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have introduced bipartisan legislation that would renew and expand the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)...
DOI Establishes Authority On Workplace Safety For OCS Offshore Projects
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) recently announced steps designed to ensure workplace safety on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) renewable energy facilities. The...