{"id":33740,"date":"2012-11-29T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T12:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=33740"},"modified":"2012-11-29T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T12:18:03","slug":"miso-passes-10000-mw-mark-as-veterans-petition-congress-for-wind-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/miso-passes-10000-mw-mark-as-veterans-petition-congress-for-wind-tax-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"MISO Passes 10,000 MW Mark As Veterans Petition Congress For Wind Tax Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\n\"vets<\/a>MISO<\/a>, the regional grid operator for 11 states in the upper Midwest and part of Canada, just announced that it reached a new record wind peak output<\/a> of 10,012 megawatts last week, adding up to more than 25 percent of the system’s energy use. Word of the milestone comes as a group of veterans travels to Washing today. The group will petition Congress to keep the wind industry humming along, by extending the federal production tax credit for wind power.<\/p>\n

Rapid Growth in Wind Power<\/h2>\n

It seems like only yesterday (because it was) that sister site CleanTechnica<\/em> discussed a new report that shows how closely the growth of the wind industry follows periods in which the federal wind tax credit<\/a> has been extended.<\/p>\n

MISO’s experience with wind power is a case in point. The grid operator, which handles all or part of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Manitoba, was first authorized in 2001. At the time, wind power was not part of the picture.<\/p>\n

The tax credit was allowed to expire in 2003 but it was back on again several months after that, and by 2006 it was entering a period of relative stability.
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