Wind power association ramps up effort to renew tax credit

Worried that its renewal could be lost in the shuffle in congressional negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff” package of spending cuts and tax increases, the American Wind Energy Association has released a new video explaining the importance of the production tax credit to the wind industry.

You can check out the video below:

The association last week released a new analysis that called for the renewal of the 2.2 cent per kilowatt hour tax credit with its eventual phaseout by 2019. That study was among the last actions by outgoing CEO Denise Bode, a former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner. Bode, who has been with AWEA for four years, said she will leave the association Jan. 1 to return to private practice as a tax attorney. Rob Gramlich, AWEA’s senior vice president for public policy, will be interim CEO as the association searches for a new CEO.