COPENHAGEN — An open house for the Copenhagen Wind Farm project has been set following approval of both a draft environmental plan and a taxation agreement that would provide nearly $20 million to local municipalities over a 20-year period.
Founding members of the Financing America’s Investment in Renewables (FAIR) Coalition include leaders in the renewable energy industry and call for support of the Master Limited Partnerships (MLP) Parity Act
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.
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:
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.
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.