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Wind power faces taxing headwind
Many Republicans argue that any benefits from wind power don't justify government investment. "What do we get in return for these billions of dollars of subsidies?" Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who has long criticized the tax credit for the wind industry, said in a speech earlier this year. "We get a puny amount of unreliable electricity."
July 9, 2012
by Mark Peters and Keith Johnson
in The Wall Street Journal
WEST BRANCH, Iowa-Acciona Windpower's generator-assembly plant here in the heart of the corn belt is down to its last domestic order as the U.S. wind energy industry faces a sharp slowdown.
Demand for the school bus-size pods it assembles to house the guts of a wind turbine is drying up as a key federal tax credit nears expiration. Acciona is now banking on foreign orders to keep the plant going next year, while hoping the credit will be extended.
The debate over renewing the credit is dividing Republicans, with conservative lawmakers from wind states joining Democrats to push for an extension even... [continue via Web link]
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