he production tax credit, the primary cost-saving policy for the industry, expires at the end of the year and the executives said their companies are already feeling the effects.  More »

China has dominated the wind power market, installing 43 percent of the world’s new wind power capacity in 2011, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute.  More »

A huge power transmission line for wind farms planned off the East Coast has cleared a regulatory hurdle, although construction is still years away.  More »

Wind power could be an economic solution for fueling offshore oil and gas platforms. At least, it’s an idea being batted around for rigs in Norway.  More »

This post was written by Lavanya Sunder, who worked as an at the Baker Institute Energy Forum and is now a senior at Lamar High School. One of the most prominent arguments against expanded oil and natural gas drilling and major infrastructure projects like Keystone XL is that the United States should for environmental reasons [...]  More »

Britain and the U.S. said they’d fund work on offshore wind generation technologies that work in waters as much as 500 feet deep, a measure aimed at opening vast new areas of ocean to development.  More »

Texas is still a national leader in wind energy, but Kansas is building more wind projects this year and Iowa claimed more jobs tied to the sector in 2011 than the Lone Star State, according to a new assessment by an industry trade group.  More »

The Obama administration and five states announced an agreement Friday to speed up consideration of plans for offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes, which have been delayed by cost concerns and public opposition.  More »

The Senate on Thursday failed to advance a measure that would repeal tax incentives for the nation’s biggest companies and use the money to pay for extending clean-energy tax credits.  More »

President Obama made a firm call Thursday for the Senate to approve a measure repealing some of the oil and gas industry’s tax incentives, just ahead of a high-profile vote in the upper chamber.  More »

EPA has proposed its first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but the rules would not apply to existing plants or ones scheduled for completion within a year.  More »

A wind project that would build at least 54 wind turbines in a southwest Ohio county faces hurdles despite a recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling in its favor.  More »