Since taking office, President Obama has been focused on building an energy economy in the United States that is cleaner as well as more efficient and secure. As part of that effort, the Administration has taken historic action over the past few years to support the development and deployment of renewable energy that will create … Continue reading U.S. wind energy blew away old record for installations in 2012 →

The American Wind Energy Association’s quarterly market report counted 13,124 megawatts installed in the U.S. during 2012. That outstripped the previous record set in 2009 by about 3,000 megawatts and represented about $25 billion in private investment, the association said. Installations surged to 8,380 megawatts in the fourth quarter, as wind farm developers raced to … Continue reading U.S. wind energy: 13,124 megawatts installed during 2012 →

Recently, Yahoo.com carried an article by Susan Graybeal, who unfortunately relied on the Institute for Energy Research (IER), an anti-wind group funded by fossil fuel interests, for a discussion of the wind energy industry’s prospects. With the January 1 extension of the production tax credit (PTC), the wind energy industry is getting back to work. … Continue reading Wind energy: Graybeal story relies on IER, misses facts →

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) awarded $150,000 each to Maine-based Pika Energy and Oklahoma-based Bergey Windpower Co. under its Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP) for distributed wind power. The CIP initiative is intended to expand and revitalize U.S. leadership in domestic and international distributed wind markets by helping U.S. manufacturers lower … Continue reading Bergey, Pika Energy receive DOE distributed wind energy awards →

The Daily Caller’s Michael Bastasch recently reported on a faulty report filed by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). PRI is a think tank with ties to fossil fuel industry-funded groups like the Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The report’s author, Benjamin Zycher, has had his anti-wind misinformation debunked before. Throughout this … Continue reading Wind energy: Pacific Research Institute report by Benjamin Zycher filled with inaccuracies →

AWEA is ringing in the New Year by showing off some of its best work in 2012. The following 10 articles, letters, op-eds, and blog posts highlight some of our best efforts to counter inaccurate and misleading information about wind power in the news. Let’s all enjoy the trip down memory lane and as always, … Continue reading Wind energy: Top 10 Mythbusters from 2012 →

Charles K. Ebinger’s January 7 Brookings opinion piece about the production tax credit does get one thing right. It is true that over a project’s lifetime, wind power ultimately drives investment and consumer savings that more than pays for the tax relief it receives. That’s the result of a smart and worthwhile federal policy doing … Continue reading Brookings’s Ebinger off target with wind energy criticism →

The George C. Marshall Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded “research organization,” has published a report examining the economics of wind energy.  The report ignores recent reductions in the cost of wind energy, even though those reductions have been repeatedly documented by two national laboratories.   The report’s authors incorrectly claim that the wind industry has failed to … Continue reading Marshall Institute attacks wind energy, ignores facts →

The American Energy Alliance, a fossil-fuel funded group, recently posted a cartoon online consisting of a series of recycled anti-wind myths (hey, at least they believe in recycling). From our perspective, their cartoon is indeed good for a chuckle, as every one of its so-called facts about wind power has previously been thoroughly rebutted. Actually: … Continue reading American Energy Alliance’s anti-wind energy cartoon caricatures facts →

A recent article on the FOX News website painted a very one-sided picture of wind energy generation’s impact on bird populations. Quoting long-time anti-wind columnist Robert Bryce, the article recycled many inaccurate and previously refuted statements on the impact of wind power development on wildlife populations.   Also, contrary to the article’s assertions, the wind … Continue reading FOX News article fails to put wind energy development in context →