We know that this year has not been a good one for the Chinese wind power industry as growth slowed dramatically.
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Zhu Yuguo, ranks at 102 on the Forbes China Rich List, with a personal fortune of 5.71 billion Yuan and has invested heavily in the wind power industry.
Navigant Consulting of Chicago has estimated that the end of the PTC could ultimately cost 37, 000 jobs throughout the wind power industry out of about 75, 000 presently existing.
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After suffering a punishing year because of low natural gas prices, the wind power industry is keeping close watch on the prospect that water pollution from hydraulic fracturing may lead to regulation of shale gas drilling.
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According to Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, which represents the interests of the wind power industry, the court's decisions and the investment in renewable fuels illustrates the "growing consensus" that something must be done to curb global warming.
Britain missed out on leadership in the wind-power industry, scooped by Germany and Denmark.
"This FAA approval allows Cape Wind to move forward and jump-start the new American industry in offshore wind power that will help light up the East Coast, " Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rogers told CNN.
The wind industry is on track to power one in 10 homes by 2015, according to the trade body for UK renewable energy firms.
With the prospect of such levels of investments flowing into the UK's energy sector, it seems clear that the nuclear industry will have to compete with the oil and gas industry, with the wind power sector and with renewable fuels companies, not just to attract electricity customers, but also to attract skilled staff such as engineers and scientists.
According to wind energy industry players, the PTC remains crucial for the continued ascendance of wind power.
Yet the German government, for one, has been reluctant to spend money on reactors to burn Russian plutonium at a time when it aims to wind down Germany's own nuclear-power industry.
Thanks to that push, the Energy Information Administration estimated that the industry would set a record for total wind power installations in the U.S., potentially topping 12, 000 megawatts of installed capacity.
One reason the wind power sector has grown so rapidly in Texas is that the state's oil industry has decades of experience building big projects like wind farms.
And while the EPA has done everything in its power to kill coal, that industry added nearly three times more electrical capacity than wind during the first nine months of 2010 (39% vs. 14%).
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In addition to fighting for the credit extensions, the wind industry is angling for a new tax credit for home owners who install residential-sized wind power systems.
The wind energy industry lost a pioneer last month when Corwin Hardham, the athletic, kitesurfing CEO of Makani Power, died at his desk at the age of 38.
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