Over half of the states, including California, Nevada, New York, Washington and Wisconsin, offer financial aid to promote wind energy generation that can be used onsite.
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The website is designed chiefly for policy makers who want to see what issues their counterparts in other jurisdiction have tackled to promote wind energy generation, such as the pricing structures, said Heather Rhoads-Weaver, a market and policy consultant with eFormative Options, which led the initial design of the web tool.
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Then there's a small-technology approach: solar power, wind energy and distributed generation.
We are now on pace to double renewable energy generation from wind and solar from the time the President took office.
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Boone Pickens, now touting wind energy as a fix for electricity generation, favors natural gas as a way to alleviate the transportation sector's dependence on oil.
Driven by falling turbine prices and the rush to take advantage of production tax credits (which were set to expire but were renewed by Congress in early January), wind energy was the fastest growing source of new electricity generation in the United States in 2012.
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The relentless pursuit of technical improvements has brought solar and wind power prices down enough to compete with conventional energy-generation technologies in many markets.
According to a 2009 Energy Information Agency Report on Electricity Generation, wind power provided only 70 billion kWh of the total U.S. 3, 953 kWh supply (1.79% of generated power).
Wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy source for electricity generation in the U.S., and DOE estimates that 20 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S. could come from wind power by 2030.
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So GE is determined to come out with a battery system that will store energy, but the investment costs are enormous as it needs to develop a massive storage system for a huge global customer base, says Wlliam Schmitz, president and CEO of WindTamer (WNDT), a maker of wind power generators utilizing proprietary technology for elecrtric generation and energy management.
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"We need to have instant-on sources of energy" like gas to balance loads from wind and solar generation.
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He told MPs that wind turbines were "probably the most beautiful and graceful form of energy generation and certainly prettier than the average nuclear power station".
GE, which manufactures gas turbines for power generation, wind turbines and a variety of products for energy production, distribution and management is benefiting from this rising demand.
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State mandates for renewable energy generation have driven much of the increase in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and other forms of clean power over the past decade.
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Although more than half the states have passed mandates to increase renewable energy use (which often results in new wind farms and local "clean" generation), utilities still need to get that power to consumers.
For many of these states, offshore wind is the most abundant indigenous energy source and the only commercial option for renewable power generation, especially in southern states where land-based resources become scarcer with decreasing latitude.
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From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
Yet for all the hoopla that renewable energy receives, wind and solar account for just 6% of total U.S. power generation.
Wind power led among the renewable energy sources and accounted for about 3.5% of the overall power generation in 2012.
China already dominates global market share for electric batters, wind turbines, and solar panels, and is rapidly boosting its capacity to innovate and produce next-generation clean energy technologies.
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