Public Power - January/February 2009 - (Page 26) Grand Ambitions for Wind Power BY BRENT BARKER Few industries are scaling up faster than wind power, which in terms of installed capacity in the United States, has been increasing at an average rate of more than 27 percent per year. Wind machines are growing bigger, wind farms larger, and the manufacturing base more diverse and more robust, both domestically and globally. This extraordinary growth is driven by policy, regulation and economics. Federal policy exerts its force most directly in terms of the production tax credit (PTC), which is worth $21/MWh. At the state level, renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are accelerating the nation’s efforts to diversify the fuel mix of electricity generation. Even policy anticipation is playing a role. The widespread assumption of federal carbon regulation in the 2012-2014 time period is now factored into utility expansion planning. A key result is that interest in coal is diminishing, as evidenced by the cancellation of 59 coal plants in 2007, while interest in wind power is rising. Wind power accounted for 35 percent of U.S. electricity capacity expansion in 2007, second only to natural gas. 26 January-February 2009 Public Power
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