Renewable Energy Industry Leaders: RES = More Jobs By Tom Gray
03 de septiembre de 2010
With an RES, we estimate that we would invest approximately $1 billion more per year in wind power and $1.5 billion in solar energy.
With an RES, we estimate that we would invest approximately $1 billion more per year in wind power and $1.5 billion in solar energy.
In a recent article for Wired magazine, Marc Gunther looks at the question of where wind energy plants are located and the need for new transmission.
We want to share with you a bit about the latest attack on renewable energy which has been on Fox and in the Wall Street Journal this week.
Recent data and analyses have made it clear that the emissions savings from adding wind power to the grid are even larger than had been commonly thought.
While the US is currently the lead nation in wind energy generation (with China predicted to surpass us shortly), Wisconsin sits in the middle of the pack for “installed capacity” relative to other U.S. states.
Despite the growth in installed wind farm capacity in 2009, the combination of the financial crisis, lower wholesale electricity prices, and lower demand for renewable energy has taken a toll on the wind power industry.
As the U.S. wind power industry’s installed capacity went from 6.7 megawatts to 35,000 megawatts between 2004 and 2009, its manufacturing sector expanded from a few dozen facilities to more than 240.
A variety of policy drivers at both the federal and state levels have been important to the expansion of the wind power market in the United States.
Energy and commodity prices have dropped since mid-2008, however, and the supply-demand balance for wind turbines has resulted in a turn towards a buyer’s market.
Sharp Drop in Wholesale Electricity Prices Makes the Near-Term Economics of Wind Energy More Challenging.