{"id":15551,"date":"2013-08-06T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15551"},"modified":"2013-08-06T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:40:20","slug":"oklahoma-moves-up-now-no-6-in-wind-power-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/08\/06\/oklahoma-moves-up-now-no-6-in-wind-power-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Moves Up, Now No. 6 in Wind Power Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15566\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Wind turbines stretch to the horizon northwest of Woodward, Okla in this 2011 photo.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/WindPic.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15566\" alt=\"Wind turbines stretch to the horizon northwest of Woodward, Okla in this 2011 photo.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/WindPic-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind turbines near Woodward in northwest Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma remains one of the top states for wind power generation, U.S. Department of Energy officials said Monday.<\/p><p>Oklahoma ranked No. 6 in wind power capacity in 2012, an improvement from the No. 8 position the state held in 2011, according to an update of the agency&#8217;s <em><\/em><em>Wind Technologies Market Report.<\/em><\/p><p>A press release from the U.S. Department of Energy highlights Oklahoma&#8217;s importance in the growing trend toward a greater reliance on wind power:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Oklahoma installed 1,127 megawatts (MW) of new wind power capacity, bringing its total to about 3,130 MW<\/p><p>&#8230; With this installed capacity, Oklahoma can generate about 14 percent of its electricity from wind energy.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->The DOE report trumpets the growth in wind energy generation and use over the past year, while also warning of a coming slowdown due to policy uncertainty around the industry&#8217;s tax credits.<\/p><p>Uncertainty over wind industry tax credits is an ongoing issue StateImpact Oklahoma <a title=\"StateImpactOK link\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/03\/tax-credit-extension-helps-but-oklahoma-wind-industry-still-wounded-by-uncertainty\/\" target=\"_blank\">has addressed before<\/a>. The closure of Tulsa-based DMI Industries <a title=\"StateImpactOK link\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/08\/tulsa-wind-tower-manufacturer-closing-amid-industry-uncertainty\/\" target=\"_blank\">was blamed<\/a> on the threat\u00a0of tax credits expiring at the end of 2012. Ultimately, the credits were extended for another year.<\/p><p>Right-click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windpoweringamerica.gov\/pdfs\/workshops\/2013_summit\/wiser.pdf\">here<\/a> to download a .pdf summary of the <em style=\"font-size: 14px;\">2012 Wind Technologies Market Report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma remains one of the top states for wind power generation, U.S. Department of Energy officials said Monday.Oklahoma ranked No. 6 in wind power capacity in 2012, an improvement from the No. 8 position the state held in 2011, according to an update of the agency&#8217;s Wind Technologies Market Report.A press release from the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":15566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[238,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15551"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15586,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551\/revisions\/15586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}