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RES cost effective

...negative impact on consumer electric rates. In fact, wind energy actually saves consumers money. Because wind has zero fuel costs, wind energy protects the utilities and their ratepayers against fluctuating...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-04-30/res-cost-effective
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New tax on your utility bill

...Standard (RES), requiring investor owned utilities to get 40 percent of their electric energy from renewable fuels like wind energy by 2030. This is a big increase over the existing and probably unattainable 25 percent RES. The bill also adds an...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-04-16/new-tax-your-utilit
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Cass board approves union contracts

...money to install additional solar panels on the main dormitory building at Deep Portage.Yerger said Deep Portage has cut its electrical bill from $24,000 per year to $17,500 with previous earlier solar and wind energy installations.

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-04-02/cass-board-approves-union-contracts
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Renewable energy forum is March 5 at CLC

...that state cite the potential for wind energy to be the biggest cash crop available...the East.In 2012, the U.S. wind energy industry had its strongest year ever, the American Wind Energy Association reports, installing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-02-28/renewable-energy-forum-march-5-clc
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Obama's chilly approach to global warming

...improvement and cost reductions. It is more predicable than wind energy and peaks when demand is highest. But it is currently...foster weeds which will grow to obscure the mirrors. Wind energy's intermittent output requires continuous backup in...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-01-28/obamas-chilly-appro
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Blow wind, blow

...blowThe recent article by long-time wind energy opponent Rolf Westgard ("Obama's...recycled previously refuted myths.Wind energy has already proven a reliable energy...electricity from wind, and when wind energy recently provided more than 25percent...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-02-01/blow-wind-blow
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Blow wind, blow

...The recent article by long-time wind energy opponent Rolf Westgard ("Obama's...recycled previously refuted myths. Wind energy has already proven a reliable energy...electricity from wind, and when wind energy recently provided more than 25...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-02-01/blow-wind-blow-0
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Wind farms provide only 3.5% of U.S. energy

...Congress, included extending the wind energy's Production Tax Credit (PTC...cents per kilowatt hour(kwh) to wind energy producers. For all of 2012, U...the most recent $1 billion in wind energy grants handed out by the government...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-08-21/wind-farms-provide-
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Extend wind-power tax credit now, so it can die

...than all or nothing. Yes, clean wind energy should receive continued federal...2-cent tax credit, paid to wind-energy companies for every kilowatt-hour...years, according to the American Wind Energy Association, an industry trade...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-08-26/extend-wind-power-t
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U of Minn. opens wind research station

...research tower. The facility will host research into wind energy and train workers for the industry. The facility is...ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Online: The Wind Energy Research Consortium: www.eolos.umn.edu Copyright...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-10-23/u-minn-opens-wind-research-station
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