Renewable energy

I would like to confirm George Debono's statement in his letter of April 27 that the US is not "giving up on wind energy". On the contrary, support for wind energy continues to grow. The use of wind energy in the US has more than tripled during the...

I would like to confirm George Debono's statement in his letter of April 27 that the US is not "giving up on wind energy". On the contrary, support for wind energy continues to grow.

The use of wind energy in the US has more than tripled during the past five years and is likely to begin expanding again once a key federal tax incentive, currently bogged down by election-year politics in Congress, is renewed.

Only a week ago, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-California) and Governor Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico, and a former US Secretary of Energy) signed a joint statement at the North American Energy Summit calling on the states of the western US to install 30,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy by the year 2015. Much of that new generating capacity is expected to come from wind.

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