California Approves Stimulus Funding for 3GW of Solar Projects
Treasury Grant Program Extension could Create 207,000 Solar Industry Jobs
Price of Wind Turbines Drops 15% in 2010
Governors' Coalition Releases Renewable Energy Report to Prod Congress on Climate Bill
Clean-Tech Is A Bright Spot For Job Seekers
Four U.S. States Now Receive Over 10% of Electricity from Wind Power
DOE Announces More Than $200M For Solar, Wind & Water Energy Technologies
Secretary Chu Announces More than $155 Million for Industrial Energy Efficiency Projects
World's Largest Wind Farm to Receive $1.3 billion DOE Loan Guarantee
U.S. Barely in the Green Technology Race: "We are Number 19! We are Number 19?!"
They're Finally Taxing Air: Wyoming Plans a Tax on Wind Energy
California Renewable Energy Project Proposals near 70GW
Obama to announce funding to promote cleantech jobs effort
U.S to Build 16 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy from Recovery Act Funds
Obama Unveils "Smart Energy" Plan For Green Energy Jobs
Proposed Wind Energy Legislation to Shift Stimulus Spending to 100% U.S. Companies
Proving that what appears simple on the surface may hide complex and controversial issues, four United States senators were told by Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), that their proposal, requiring that the parts of wind turbine installed in U.S. wind farms be manufactured 100% in the US, might actually weaken jobs and slow progress in the nation’s wind energy sector.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, along with fellow Democrats Bob Casey, Sherrod Brown, and Jon Tester, introduced new legislation March 3 to counteract Recovery Act dollars being paid out to foreign manufacturers. The Senators were responding to a February ABC News story covering a report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop (IRW) at the American University School of Communication in Washington, DC. According to the report, almost 80 percent of the nearly $2B in stimulus money has been allocated to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines.
The AWEA has countered the allegations by noting that although many US wind projects have foreign owners, all stimulus funds must finance projects built within the US, thus preserving and creating American jobs. The Recovery Act directives will provide grants to stimulate manufacturing, but the AWEA contends that requiring that 100% of the parts be made in the US when manufacturing capacity is not currently available would significantly slow the nation’s wind energy sector.
Recommended for Further Reading:
- California Approves Stimulus Funding for 3GW of Solar Projects
- Treasury Grant Program Extension could Create 207,000 Solar Industry Jobs
- Price of Wind Turbines Drops 15% in 2010
- Governors' Coalition Releases Renewable Energy Report to Prod Congress on Climate Bill
- Clean-Tech Is A Bright Spot For Job Seekers
- Four U.S. States Now Receive Over 10% of Electricity from Wind Power
- DOE Announces More Than $200M For Solar, Wind & Water Energy Technologies
- Secretary Chu Announces More than $155 Million for Industrial Energy Efficiency Projects
- World's Largest Wind Farm to Receive $1.3 billion DOE Loan Guarantee
- U.S. Barely in the Green Technology Race: "We are Number 19! We are Number 19?!"
- They're Finally Taxing Air: Wyoming Plans a Tax on Wind Energy
- California Renewable Energy Project Proposals near 70GW
- Obama to announce funding to promote cleantech jobs effort
- U.S to Build 16 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy from Recovery Act Funds
- Obama Unveils "Smart Energy" Plan For Green Energy Jobs
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