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A Refundable Federal Tax Credit Could Remove Barriers To Community Wind By Climate Guest Contributor on April 19, 2012 at 11:21 am "A Refundable Federal Tax Credit Could Remove Barriers To Community Wind" by John Farrell, via Energy Self Reliant States Since it will take a battle to extend federal tax credits for wind power anyway, why not make community wind development easier at the same time? Last month, President Obama’s Treasury Department released proposed reforms to a number of business taxes including the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind power projects. A regular tax credit reduces the amount of taxes a business or person pays dollar for dollar, down to zero. With a refundable tax credit, wind and solar project owners wouldn’t require big tax bills or Wall Street to finance projects. The implications are significant. There are other solutions afoot for community wind, including the Community Wind Act.

Homepage Wind farms can increase night time temperatures, research reveals | Environment Large windfarms can increase local night time temperatures by fanning warmer air onto the ground, new research has revealed. The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge windfarms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72C. "Wind power is going to be a part of the solution to the climate change, air pollution and energy security problem," said Liming Zhou, at the University of Albany in New York. "But understanding the impacts of windfarms is critical for developing management strategies to ensure the long-term sustainability of wind power." West Texas has seen rapid expansion of windfarms, with turbine numbers rising from 111 in 2003 to 2358 in 2011. They note, however, that the effect on the air temperature, which is usually given in weather forecasts, will be lower than 0.72C rise because they respond less quickly to changes than land temperatures. The scientists say the effect is due to the gentle turbulence caused by the wind turbines.

Life Science Producties Scientist Debunks 'Misleading' Coverage Of Wind Farm Study By Climate Guest Contributor on May 1, 2012 at 11:52 am "Scientist Debunks ‘Misleading’ Coverage Of Wind Farm Study" by Shauna Theel, via Media Matters A recent study of satellite data found that nighttime land temperatures in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines in Texas have increased relative to nearby areas without turbines. The researchers, led by Liming Zhou, said it is “[v]ery likely” that “wind turbines do not create a net warming of the air and instead only re-distribute the air’s heat near the surface, which is fundamentally different from the large-scale warming effect caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.” The authors further noted that “this analysis is from a short period,” from 2003 to 2011, and is “over a region with rapid growth of wind farms,” west-central Texas, so it is likely that their estimate of a “nighttime warming effect” is higher than “in other locations and over longer periods.”

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