Following congressional passage in December of a multiyear extension of the wind-energy production tax credit and investment tax credit, the wind industry is breezing ahead with a new lease on life.
As pressure mounts on coal-and natural-gas-fired power plants—as well as cement kilns—to reduce CO2 emissions, researchers are looking to not only capture and store those emissions but also to convert CO2 into marketable products.
Construction delays and energy economics appear to have cost two offshore wind-energy demonstration projects in Oregon and Virginia millions of dollars in federal grants, allowing two others in Maine and Ohio to accelerate their own development efforts.
Hypersaline cooling-water seepage from Florida Power & Light Co.’s 3550-MW Turkey Point Power Station in Florida City has polluted the shallow Biscayne Aquifer and now is being drawn back to the plant’s property through retraction wells in an operation expected to take 10 years.