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- Advocate: Changing Texas laws would send businesses out of state
Wind power advocates in Texas are preparing to defend policies that have helped the state become a center for wind-power development. Among the policies under threat are the state's renewable portfolio standard and a wind farm property tax incentive program that is slated to expire next year. Jeffrey Clark, executive director of the Wind Coalition, said that companies will be taking their businesses to Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska if the tax incentive is repealed. Tribune Newspapers (Texas)
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- Okla. State, OGE Energy mark shift to wind power
Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma Gas & Electric Energy held a ceremony to celebrate the university's transition to wind energy as its primary source of power. The university now obtains 67% of its electricity from the 26-turbine Cowboy Wind Farm near Blackwell, Okla., which started sending power to the campus on Jan. 1. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin attended the event. San Francisco Chronicle/The Associated Press
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- First Wind hosts inaugural ride on Maine wind farm trail system
First Wind hosted a ride-in for snowmobilers last weekend to celebrate the completion of the Ride the Wind project, a 590-mile trail system connecting 11 of Maine's wind farms. First Wind developed the trail to help tourists and snowmobilers find their way to the wind farms, said Neil Kiely, the company's director of development in New England. "People are curious about the wind farms, and because of their proximity to snowmobile trails, use them as destinations," Kiely said. Portland Press Herald (Maine)/The Associated Press
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- North American freshwater wind turbines get engineering help
The problem posed by ice to wind turbines erected in water is the obstacle that Lake Erie Energy Development hopes to overcome with help from U.S. and international companies and laboratories. The project was also awarded a $4 million federal grant, as well as $1 million in private funding. "I am convinced that we are poised to become the first freshwater wind farm in North America, which will spawn a new wind power industry in Northeast Ohio," said Lorry Wagner, LEEDCo president and a nuclear engineer. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
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- Mich. is on pace for goal of 10% renewables, report says
Michigan is making headway in its goal of obtaining 10% of its electric power from renewable sources by 2015, according to a report by the Michigan Public Service Commission. "More renewable energy came online in Michigan in 2012 than ever before," Chairman John Quackenbush said. The commission says the cost of renewable-energy contracts is "substantially lower" than that of coal-powered generators and is expected to continue to decline. MLive.com (Michigan) (free registration)
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Why Is Fox Business Saying Those Things About Wind Power?
Just because you're on television doesn't mean you can make things up. The hosts of two TV talk shows on Fox Business News, "Money with Melissa Francis" and "Varney & Company," recently seemed to be competing to make the most inaccurate statements about wind power. Let's review.
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