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AUGUSTA, Maine - Gov. Paul LePage wants to strip from state law goals for increasing the state’s wind energy capacity over the next two decades. LePage’s energy director, Patrick Woodcock, made recommendations Thursday to rewrite the state’s 2008 Wind Energy Act, shifting focus from growing wind energy capacity to lowering ...
bangordailynews.com (9 days ago)

We agree with Patrick Woodcock, director of the Governor’s Energy Office, that it’s time for a comprehensive review and update of Maine’s wind energy policy. Five years have passed since former Gov. John Baldacci’s task force aggressively shepherded the Maine Wind Energy Act into law. The knowledge accumulated during that ...
bangordailynews.com (5 days ago)
It took an energy insider this past week to expose the dirty little truth about the future of wind energy — it’s too costly, too unreliable and only getting more so because of government subsidies.Take that, you green zealots.Patrick Jenevein, CEO of Tang Energy Group in Dallas, the nation’s largest producer of wind energy, actually deplores the government subsidies, which...
bostonherald.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
AUGUSTA, Maine — People who live near wind farms and other opponents of expedited permitting for wind energy projects packed a legislative hearing room Thursday to testify in favor of three bills that aim to change parts of the Wind Energy Act of 2008. The act, which won unanimous support ...
bangordailynews.com (1 month and 19 days ago)
The measure would make it easier for renewable energy companies to qualify for sales-tax exemptions under the existing Rural Community-Based Energy Development Act, which was created to encourage wind-energy projects.
omaha.com (18 days ago)

LIMA — A representative with BP Wind Energy met Tuesday with Allen County Commissioners to discuss constructing utility lines in the county to extract energy coming from a future Van Wert County wind
limaohio.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. wants to give the Northeast Ohio community the opportunity to become directly involved in the wind power industry by pledging to buy a portion of their future electricity needs from offshore wind power.
news-herald.com (26 days ago)
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. wants to give the Northeast Ohio community the opportunity to become directly involved in the wind power industry by pledging to buy a portion of their future electricity needs from offshore wind power.
news-herald.com (26 days ago)
COLUMBUS — Ohio nearly quadrupled its ability to generate power from wind in 2012, part of a record year for the U.S. wind industry, but a review of state renewable-energy requirements places future growth in doubt.
toledoblade.com (1 month and 1 day ago)
West Central TribuneCONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) -- It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind...
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