US wind should 'lay low' under Trump, says EDPR chief
US wind should 'lay low' under Trump, says EDPR chief
The US wind industry would be wise to “lay low” as the Trump administration settles in, rather than mounting a noisy lobbying campaign, advises Gabriel Alonso, chief executive of EDP Renewables North America, one of the continent’s most important wind developers.
Alonso adds that the single most important objective for the industry right now is preserving the four-year window developers have to build out their projects qualified for the full production tax credit (PTC).
Preserving that window, he says, is more important than protecting the PTC phase-out, which will see the tax credit decline steadily to 40% of its value for wind farms that enter construction in 2019, before it expires again in 2020.
Since the surprise election of President Donald Trump last November, many in the renewables industry have argued in favour of pressing the case with the White House that wind and solar are now important employers, and drivers of economic growth in struggling rural areas.
However, Alonso believes that the less that the Trump administration thinks and hears about wind energy over the next few years, the better off the industry may be. Better instead to quietly engage with the Republican-controlled Congress, whose members in many cases have very different priorities than Trump, while allowing the White House to focus on other issues.
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Comment by Long Islander on January 7, 2018 at 1:58pm
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EDPR is owned by Energias de Portugal.
Energias de Portugal is owned by China Three Gorges.
China Three Gorges iw owned by Communist China - not our friend.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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