EnergyNews
Wind Farms Getting a Pass on Killing Endangered Bats?
Nothing strikes fear into developers and property owners more than a new critter on the federal list of endangered species. Case in point: The northern long-eared… Read More
EnergyNews
Wind Farms Divide Environmentalists: Renewable Energy vs. Dead Birds
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Paul Domski is a falconer and a bird lover. And he seriously doesn’t like wind farms or the federal government’s recent decision to protect… Read More
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Federal Agency Faces Backlash After Wind Farms Get Exemption for Killing Eagles
Wind industry insiders call it a “turbine collision,” though the feds prefer “non-purposeful take.” But critics such as Sharon Klemm get real on the U.S…. Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Tax Extenders: Extend the Wind PTC Expiration Permanently
Yesterday the Senate decided to take up legislation to extend a package of tax breaks that expired last year. The task before Senators now is… Read More
The Two Faces of the Wind Industry
A new report from the Department of Energy projects slower growth and a “direct and negative” impact on U.S. wind manufacturers if a $22-per-megawatt-hour (after… Read More
Absent Tax Credits, the Free Market Works for Wind Energy
The wind production tax credit (PTC) expired again at the close of 2013, but Congress need not reconsider it. Although new power capacity installations were… Read More
Subsidies and Taxes Complicate the Future of Nuclear Power
Rising maintenance costs and a sharp decrease in natural gas prices have put the future of some nuclear power plants into question. But other plants… Read More
$1.2 Billion in Cash Goes to Energy Projects, Despite Sequestration
Despite a fiscal cliff and sequestration worries, more than $1.2 billion in cash payments for energy projects (in lieu of tax credits) have been issued… Read More
DOE Sitting on Taxpayer Dollars Due to Negative Publicity
Despite billions of dollars in unused loan authority remaining under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office, negative publicity surrounding the loan guarantee programs… Read More
Corporate Welfare for Energy Companies Should Have Gone Off the Cliff
The fiscal cliff deal is not only preventing certain politically motivated energy tax policies from falling off the cliff, but it’s also resurrecting ones that… Read More
Time to Remove the Taxpayer Trough from Wind Producers
The meal provided by the taxpayer is over. When pigs finish eating the slop that a farmer put in the trough, they’ll hang around the… Read More
Green-Energy Projects Face Opposition From Green Groups
“We need green energy. Just not here.” Do those words sound familiar? That’s quite often the case with so-called proponents of green energy. The acronym… Read More
Changing the Definition of “All of the Above” Energy Policy
The Heritage Foundation has been making the case against energy subsidies for years. This research eventually led to a letter written in March 2011 by… Read More
Michigan’s Mandate for Pricier Energy
If an energy technology has so much promise, why would you need a constitutional amendment to require its production? Energy consumers in Michigan should be… Read More
Morning Bell: Wind Energy Subsidies Are As Useful As VHS Tape Subsidies
The wind production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, which has the industry crying out for continued subsidies. Heritage’s… Read More
Even Wind Executive Doesn’t Want Wind Tax Credit
The expiration of the production tax credit (PTC) for wind and other renewable energy sources is the subject of intense debate. Some see the credit… Read More
Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Firms Struggle, But Hike Executive Pay
When insurance giant AIG paid lucrative bonuses to top executives after receiving federal support, President Obama asked, “How do they justify this outrage to the… Read More
CBO Debunks Myth That Tax Code Favors Oil Over Renewables
Environmental activists and liberal politicians are fond of bemoaning the supposedly disproportionate tax benefits that go to the fossil fuel industry compared to its renewable… Read More
Wind Subsidies vs. Oil Subsidies
In sharp contrast to wind turbines, the wind lobby is spinning at 100 percent capacity—in order to keep the industry in the taxpayers’ pockets. Their… Read More
What If Oil Producers Actually Received Subsidies Like Wind Energy Producers?
With the current debate over ending oil producers’ subsidies the question arises as to what subsidies do the producers actually get. It is a surprisingly… Read More
Reject All-of-the-Above Energy Approaches
With Congress divided, will anything actually get done in the next two years? President Obama recently suggested energy policy as an area in which bipartisan… Read More
Cape Wind Power: What’s Cost Got to Do with It?
After nearly a decade, the Cape Wind offshore project has a lease approval from the Department of Interior, but it is not quite up and… Read More
Circumventing Cap and Trade with an Another Bad Energy Bill
In the midst of a crisis in the Gulf, some Senators are making a final push to pass energy and climate legislation this year. Senators… Read More
Oval Office Speech Should not Endorse China’s Renewable Investments
In the 1990s, Gatorade ran its “I wanna be like Mike” campaign – a series of advertisements of kids aspiring to be basketball legend Michael… Read More
Renewable Energy: Free as the Wind?
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met this morning and, among other things, discussed a national renewable electricity standard (RES). The RES, which… Read More
Cape Wind and the Clean Energy Economy
The government is announcing its approval of the nation’s first off-shore wind farm today after a contentious, nearly decade long debate including many interested parties…. Read More
The Cost of Al Gore’s Renewable Energy Plan
Earth Day is a great day for politicians to push their clean energy agenda and President Barack Obama made this clear when he reiterated in… Read More
A New Revelation: Wind Energy Needs Wind to Work
One of the common arguments made against wind power is that without government subsidies, mandates or tax credits, wind turbines would not be built. But… Read More
Blowing Smoke on Wind Energy
President Obama has been quite adamant about his push to transition to a clean energy economy, most notably by subsidizing wind and solar energy sources…. Read More
Green Jobs? Mandated Wind and Solar? Cap & Trade? We’ll Pass on that Showcase
Members of Congress like to play games and they like to spend money. What better analogy to use to describe Congress’s proposed green energy policies… Read More
