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OwnEnergy’s Model for Financing Smaller-Scale Wind Projects by GreenTech Media featuring Jacob Susman

Mar 26, 2013

Community wind pioneer OwnEnergy just got more backing from New Jersey Resources Clean Energy Ventures (NJR CEV), a fully owned subsidiary of gas utility New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR).

This could take mid-scale wind development to a new level.

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The Key Decision That Can Make or Break an Energy Project featuring Steve Krebs

Mar 12, 2013

How do developers make the crucial decision of keeping certain projects in their pipeline or simply giving up?

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Royal Meteorological Society featuring Jason Lowenstein

Feb 27, 2013

OwnEnergy’s Director of Wind Resource and GIS, Jason Lowenstein, has recently appeared as a joint author on a research paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. A summary of this paper follows:

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Wind Power Generation Beating Natural Gas in U.S. in 2012 by Bloomberg featuring Jacob Susman

Dec 22, 2012

Wind-turbine installations are poised to exceed natural gas-fueled power plants in the U.S. for the first time this year as developers race to complete wind projects before a renewable energy tax credit expires.

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CNN Political Pundits’ Advice to the Wind Industry by Greentech Media

Nov 20, 2012

I would go to lawmakers, throw a quarter down, and say, ‘That’s all I want. Twenty-five cents for every dollar you give the Koch brothers and Exxon.’"

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1-year PTC extension likely to pass in lame-duck session, observers say by SNL featuring Jacob Susman

Nov 20, 2012

With a re-elected pro-wind president and many wind proponents remaining in Congress, the wind industry is likely to see an extension of the federal production tax credit during the lame-duck session, according to experts at the American Wind Energy Association's Fall Symposium in Chandler, Ariz.

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Will US wind power splutter out of if Mitt Romney cuts its subsidy? The Guardian featuring Jacob Susman

Oct 17, 2012

Uncertainty over the Production Tax Credit that helps US wind energy firms is casting a long shadow over the industry's future

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Copenhagen Wind Farm environmental review under way - Watertown Daily Times

Oct 04, 2012

COPENHAGEN — A Brooklyn company is moving forward with environmental review of its proposed “community wind” project here.

“Copenhagen is a wind project we are committed to continuing to develop for the foreseeable future,” OwnEnergy Inc. project manager James Damon wrote in an email message.

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OwnEnergy Announces Groundbreaking Investment by NJR Clean Energy Ventures - Press Release

Sep 10, 2012

BROOKLYN, NY – OwnEnergy, Inc. a leading developer of mid-sized and community wind projects, announced today that NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources (NYSE:NJR), has joined its ranks of investors. CEV’s minority ownership provides access to its balance sheet and tax capacity and reinforces wind energy’s future and the strength of OwnEnergy’s innovative model.

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Community Wind Arrives Stateside featuring Jacob Susman

Aug 01, 2012

A cornerstone of the community wind energy idea is that profits will be reinvested into the community. Jake Susman, CEO of US developer OwnEnergy, currently the largest national player in community wind, says: ‘Our Pennsylvania project makes donations to the local fire house. We sponsor scholarships in Texas around our project there.