AWEA Blog - Fact check: Bryce errs on emissions, land use

Long-time wind-basher Robert Bryce has a new Bloomberg column questioning the ability of wind and solar power to deal with climate change.

AWEA Blog - Wind power is a water-conservation solution

Responsibly meeting our nation’s immense current, and future, energy demands requires a careful cost-benefit analysis.

Perhaps deterred by wind energy’s success in the U.S., where last year wind energy accounted for 42% of all new power plant capacity and provided 10% or more of the electricity in nine states, U.S. anti-clean energy groups are looking across the Atlantic

The Southeastern states from Virginia to Florida are home to over 65 wind-related manufacturing facilities that support thousands of wind energy jobs in the region

Already a widely discredited former climate change denier and fossil fuel promoter, Bjoern Lomborg is at it again, using obsolete data and sleight of hand to confuse his readers in a recent piece in Slate entitled “Green energy needs to be cheaper.”

This will not only provide long-term power price stability that forward-looking corporates strive for, but also allow to tap into a whole new pool of potential customers: namely those who care

Over the past several days, editorials from Texas to North Carolina and Colorado to Michigan have been spreading the good news about wind power.

AWEA Wind Energy Finance & Investment Seminar

September 9 - 10, New York City / NY

AWEA Blog: IKEA invests in more wind energy projects

“... more forward–thinking corporations are investing in wind and solar energy as part of their sustainability strategy"

AWEA Blog - Small wind gains on importance via new leasing program

“With WindLease, property owners can begin generating affordable, clean renewable energy with little to no money down,”

AWEA CEO Tom Kiernan joins Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at Nevada Clean Energy Summit in Nevada

Tom Kiernan - “From Innovation to Deployment”

AWEA Blog - Leading the way to a cleaner future

Americans take pride in our nation’s ability to continually produce technological innovations that improve our living standards

Professional-quality photos needed for 2014 AWEA calendar

Please submit your favorite industry photos that show wind power at work for America—generating clean energy, jobs, and economic development

Domestic energy development should never be a partisan issue. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Tea-Partiers, and Greens can all agree that low-cost, clean, domestically produced energy helps our nation prosper

This week: AWEA Blog - Consistent tax policy from Congress required to save US wind energy jobs

“there must be a longer term extension in place so that companies like Nordex and Mitsubishi can grow and put Arkansans to work" ...

“In the wake of this tremendous expansion, we set out to develop a set of suggestions and guidelines to help improve the reliability and profitability of modern wind energy production sites. And, I’m proud to say we succeeded.”

AWEA welcomes the President’s initiative to proceed with climate actions focused at this time on executive agencies. AWEA supports policies to achieve science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets

Today’s launch of “VolturnUS 1:8,” the first grid-connected floating offshore wind turbine to be deployed in the U.S., is “another signal of steady progress toward development of an American offshore wind industry,” according to Christopher Long, Manager

AWEA Blog - It’s a landslide: 87% of Illinois voters want more renewable energy

AWEA Blog - Google powering ahead with renewable energy

“As a company, we’ve been carbon-neutral since 2007.”

As the WINDPOWER 2013 Conference & Exhibition wound down last week, nearly 10,000 attendees and 600 exhibitors started wrapping up business and heading home—ready to capitalize on the business opportunity presented by extension of the industry’s key polic

WINDPOWER 2013: Analysts see future market of 4-8 GW/year in U.S.

The speakers included Andy Lubershane of IHS EER, Justin Wu of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and Dan Shreve of MAKE Consulting

“Our communities’ strong progress in renewable energy is the result of the collective efforts of customers, energy suppliers and our companies,” said Scott Seu, vice president for energy resources and operations

AWEA BLOG - Introducing Tom Kiernan, the person chosen to lead the U.S. Wind Industry

"We're trying to get out of the boom-and-bust policy of the tax credit,"

“In particular, a tax expenditure and a grant initiative, both administered by Treasury, accounted for nearly all federal financial support for wind energy,”

“‘You’re not starting in the right place,’ resident Debbie Hughes told Bigelow, during the public comment portion of Monday’s meeting. ‘We are already affected by the turbines. Our stress is already high.’

AWEA Blog - Wind energy cuts fossil fuel use

Wind energy is playing an important role in protecting America’s environment

AWEA: “Why I Like Wind Power” Video Contest

AWEA is looking for videos that show why you like wind power.

AWEA Blog - Tang Energy’s Jenevein off target with swipes at wind power

Patrick Jenevein of Tang Energy, criticizing wind power and the federal tax credit that has been its primary incentive

Honoring leading women in the wind power industry

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to take a moment to highlight just some of the many talented women leaders in the wind energy industry.