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Copenhagen Wind Farm progresses, open house set - Watertown Daily Times

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.

Coalition of Renewable Energy Companies Established to Advocate for a Level Playing Field for Clean Energy by Business Wire featuring Ray Henger

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

IRS Sets Wind Tax Credit Regulations for 2013 Projects in Bloomberg featuring Jacob Susman

The Internal Revenue Service completed rules today that define how wind-farm developers can qualify for tax breaks.

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

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.

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

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

Royal Meteorological Society featuring Jason Lowenstein

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

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.

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

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.’"

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

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.

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

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