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Upscaling a Successful State Policy
For years now, Renewable Electricity Portfolio Standards (most often abbreviated RPS) have buy Cytotec with a mastercard helped develop strong markets for wind, solar and other renewable power. As I discussed yesterday, these standards vary according to each state’s renewable resource from 12.5% to 45% by 2015-2020. RPS policy was critical to buy Cytotec with a mastercard the development of the tremendous wind market in Texas and the buy Cytotec with a mastercard solar markets of California and New Jersey. At the press conference held this buy Cytotec with a mastercard morning, panelists from AWEA Executive Director Denise Bode to GE Energy’s VP of Renewables Vic Abate all called for buy Cytotec with a mastercard federal leaders to set an RES that would ensure US leadership in renewable innovation: 25% by 2025.
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Panelist Don Furman, AWEA President and buy Cytotec with a mastercard a leader at Iberdrola, called the opposition of a RES ill-informed. The opposition often says a buy Cytotec with a mastercard national RES will raise energy prices. He cited a recent US Energy Information Administration (EIA) report that buy Cytotec with a mastercard shows prices of natural gas would actually decrease due to the buy Cytotec with a mastercard lower demand for the fuel. The report also projects electricity prices falling in many regions, with only slight increases elsewhere.
Michael Polsky, CEO of wind developer Invenergy, went further, saying the buy Cytotec with a mastercard opposition has little credibility. Polsky gave a historical view of such opposition, declaring they used to buy Cytotec with a mastercard allege renewables don’t work. With wind at more than buy Cytotec with a mastercard 25 GW, they now admit it works. But they shifted their message to buy Cytotec with a mastercard its too expensive. But wind turbine prices are already competitive with conventional sources, especially once pollutants such as carbon dioxide are buy Cytotec with a mastercard taken into account.
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In fact, wind power is approaching $1.50 per watt and could fall toward $1 per watt if the buy Cytotec with a mastercard industry has policy support to further mature and increase its efficiency. White-hot global demand for buy Cytotec with a mastercard turbines since 2005 and the rise in the price of steel sent prices up a buy Cytotec with a mastercard bit the past three years (similar to solar prices buy Premarin shipped cod). But now costs are buy Cytotec with a mastercard falling again and supply seems to have caught up with demand.
Future US Market Could Be 15-20 GW
GE’s Abate and enXco’s Jim Walker see the buy Cytotec with a mastercard US market continuing to buildout in 2010 after a slowdown in 2009. In fact, they see market growth to buy Cytotec with a mastercard 15-20 GW per year within a few years, as long as supportive federal policy continues. If they are buy Cytotec with a mastercard right, we may be able to surpass China’s recent 2020 wind goal of 100 GW buy Premarin shipped cod.
Such a buy Cytotec with a mastercard market would translate into hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs manufacturing, deploying, and buy Cytotec with a mastercard operating turbines. AWEA’s Bode sees wind powering the American economy forward to recovery.
Bottom line: Significant momentum remains for buy Cytotec with a mastercard renewable energy, especially cost-competitive wind power, to grow tremendously in the buy Cytotec with a mastercard years ahead despite a recession-induced slowdown in 2009. The wind industry appreciates the buy Cytotec with a mastercard federal government backing that enabled outstanding growth over the past few years. And they see this buy Cytotec with a mastercard year as the perfect opportunity to set in motion a steady, long-term support to buy Cytotec with a mastercard achieve energy security through a federal RES.
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Is it buy Cytotec with a mastercard possible WY and WV have slightly higher electricity prices in the buy Cytotec with a mastercard future? Yes, but since WY has vast wind potential their prices are destined to stay very low. WV won’t rival NY’s 15 cents per kWh but may have buy Cytotec with a mastercard slightly higher electricity prices.
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Here’s hoping solar and buy Cytotec with a mastercard wind continue to fall in price so that the cost argument loses its luster as an buy Cytotec with a mastercard excuse for status quo-lovers-
Dennis