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The Multiple Distortions of Wind Subsidies

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Phil Gramm - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - Producers get so much from the government that they can pay utilities to take their power and still make a profit.

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Bill Clinton: Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Nov. 11 (Fact Check) - During a Nov. 8, 2011, appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, former President Bill Clinton touted the prospects for adopting renewable energy. "Solar energy and wind energy ... would already be competitive with coal if you had to pay the extraneous costs of coal -- the health care costs and other things. And ... wind within two years and solar within five will be competitive in price with coal. They're both cheaper than nuclear right now."

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Donald Trump Angry Over Offshore Wind Farms Near Scotland Golf Course

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tara Kelly - Aug. 12 (News Report) - According to Bloomberg, he also wrote in a recent email, “I am very disappointed that Scotland may allow the development of a wind power plant directly off Aberdeen’s beautiful coastline.”

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Wind farms multiply, fueling clashes with nearby residents

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Tiffany Hsu - Jul. 24 (News Report) - Demand for clean energy has led to a wind turbine building boom. But many living in their shadow decry the electricity generating projects as pesky eyesores.

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Maryland Passes Legislation That May Boost Offshore Wind Energy

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Andrew Herndon - Feb. 11 (News) - Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill that would require utilities in the state to purchase electricity generated at offshore wind farms built in the mid- Atlantic. The Maryland Offshore Wind Act of 2011, to be introduced before the state’s general assembly today, would require public utilities to purchase between 400 megawatts and 600 megawatts of capacity from wind farms in federal waters off Maryland’s coastline for at least 20 years, according to an e-mailed statement from Governor Martin O’Malley’s office.

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The Curious Case of the Texas Wind Industry

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

theenergycollective.com - By Christopher Head - Feb. 09 (News Analysis) - Oil and natural gas companies such as ConocoPhillips, Exxon-Mobil, and Halliburton are headquartered in Texas, and these companies have enjoyed substantial support from politicians such as Governor Rick Perry, who has been an unapologetic ally of the coal, oil, and natural gas industries throughout his decade-long tenure. Indeed, Governor Perry has long been one of the most prominent anti-environmental politicians in the country. And yet, Governor Perry has overseen one of the greatest renewable energy success stories in the United States.

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Wind power advocates full of hot air

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Ajax Eastman - Feb. 07 (Opinion) -

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Obama fast-tracks Mid-Atlantic offshore wind energy

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - Feb. 07 (News) -

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U.S. presses China on clean tech

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Don Lee, Tiffany Hsu - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Washington looks into allegations Beijing is illegally subsidizing green industries. The Obama administration, facing increasing political pressure to address complaints about China's economic policies, said Friday that it was investigating whether China was illegally subsidizing its clean-tech industry — even as officials put off a difficult decision on whether to cite Beijing as a currency manipulator.

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Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Praise and Backing

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Oct. 12 (News) - Google and a New York financial firm have each agreed to invest heavily in a proposed $5 billion transmission backbone for future offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Seaboard that could ultimately transform the region’s electrical map.

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Google Invests In Wind Power Line

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By JJ Sutherland - Oct. 12 (News) - The search giant wants to build a cable hundreds of miles long, 15-20 miles off shore, that would carry power from off-shore wind farms. The cable would stretch from Virginia to New Jersey.

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Ancient Italian Town Now Has Wind at Its Back

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Rosenthal - Sep. 28 (News) - Faced with sky-high electricity rates, small communities across Italy, a country known more for garbage than environmental citizenship, are finding economic salvation in making renewable energy.

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China's renewable energy edge

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Steve Hargreaves - Sep. 22 (News) - China has already surpassed the United States in the amount of wind turbines and solar panels that it makes. China is also gaining on the United States when it comes to how much of their energy comes from renewable energy sources.

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Councils to sell electricity to the national grid in green initiative

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Nigel Morris - Aug. 06 (News) - Town halls could become mini power stations under plans to allow councils to sell "green electricity" to the national grid.

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How is Wind Power Harvested?

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

chacha.com - Jun. 19 (Special Report) - Early attempts at using windmills to create electricity were quite successful, but the energy provided could not compete with the output of a fossil fuel burning plant and the technology was widely abandoned. Recently, as global warming has increased and oil supplies have decreased, wind power is being looked at again as a clean energy source.

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Uncle Sam, Solar Landlord, Is Under Fire

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Todd Woddy - Jun. 17 (News) - Solar farms typically require vast swaths of land, meaning the lease fees can be considerable depending on a project’s location and local property values. The Bureau of Land Management’s solar rents range from $15.70 an acre in Hidalgo County, N.M., to $313.88 an acre in Riverside County, Calif.

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Community debates $3b Cape Wind deal

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By John Dyer - Jun. 17 (News) - Opponents and advocates debated the first contract to buy power from Cape Wind at a public hearing in Bridgewater last night. It was the first opportunity for energy executives, concerned citizens, and environmental advocates to voice their support or opposition to a $3 billion agreement seen as vital to the success of the controversial wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound.

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BP Oil Spill and the Way to a Green Energy Future

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Monique Harden, Michael Brune Amory Lovins - Jun. 16 (Interview) - AMORY LOVINS: the President made two very interesting shifts in language in his speech. One is from just oil to talking about ending the addiction to fossil fuels, so that refers also to coal and ultimately, indeed, to natural gas. And second, he started a very interesting exercise in consensus building, because he pointed out that this has cost—our dependence on fossil fuel has cost not only to our economy but also to our national security and our environment. And I think that starts a new conversation of a new kind in energy policy, because we’ve always supposed people had to want the same things we wanted in energy for the same reasons. So if you had different priorities than somebody else, you couldn’t agree on the outcome. What the President started to do here is to say, let’s focus on outcomes, not motives, and then we can build a strong consensus.

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Will Gusher Trauma Lead Us to National Energy Goals?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Energy News - By Anne B. Butterfield - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - As the gusher in the Gulf continues to traumatize the nation, the 20,000 attendees at this year's largest wind energy conference called WINDPOWER just held in Dallas, felt anguish about the need for national renewable energy standard (RES).

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Wind-power design is innovative, but will it work?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Nashua Telegraph - By David Brooks - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - All Americans love hearing about the lone inventor who succeeds where others fail, and all newspapers love writing about a local person who does something uniquely unexpected. Today’s column was supposed to satisfy both those cravings by highlighting

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Europe's New Wind Power Rivals Gas

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Kanter - Jun. 14 (News) - The amount of power generated by new wind turbines in the European Union this year will be about the same as the amount from new gas plants, according to the European Wind Energy Association, an industry group.

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Favourable wind behind green technologies

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

theengineer.co.uk - By Ellie Zolfagharifard - Jun. 14 (News) - In a first for the World Cup, one of the venues hosting the tournament is being powered by wind energy. Promoting the message of ’green power’, around 25 Vestas-built wind turbines will be offering around 1.8 megawatt (MW) of clean energy each for the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

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Wind power

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wikipedia - Jun. 12 (Special Report) - Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2008, worldwide nameplate capacity of wind-powered generators was 121.2 gigawatts.

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Vinalhaven, Maine Shows Us How We Can Help Store Wind Power

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Zero Energy Construction - By Adam Cohen - Jun. 12 (Breaking News) - If you wish we had more wind energy on the grid, you no doubt have been frustrated by all the Nay Sayers who say; “Nah, wind will never work. And when it does blow in the wee hours of the mornings, nobody has any use for the power. You can’t store wind power.” Not so fast. A very simple low-tech solution is being tested over the next few months on Vinalhaven Island in Maine, that last year installed its own 100% wind power and then discovered that they needed a way to store the extra power! Now they are testing a low tech “distributed” storage for that extra 3 AM wind power. Even better, if it works, this very simple wind storage solution is one that WE can ALL help to supply. And it benefits us, by supplying clean, low-carbon heating.

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An Energy Strategy for Grown-Ups

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Lamar Alexander - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - The tragic Gulf oil spill has produced overreaction ("end offshore drilling"), demagoguery ("Obama's Katrina") and bad policy recommendations ("We must generate 20% of our electricity from windmills"). None of this helps clean up and move forward. If we want both clean energy and a high standard of living, here are 10 steps for thoughtful grown-ups:

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