{"id":18236,"date":"2014-02-03T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2014-02-03T11:16:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:16:40","slug":"wind-energy-construction-boom-fueled-by-threat-of-expiring-federal-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/02\/03\/wind-energy-construction-boom-fueled-by-threat-of-expiring-federal-tax-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Energy Construction Boom Fueled By Threat of Expiring Federal Tax Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_395\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395\" alt=\"The 147-megawatt Weatherford Wind Energy Center. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/08\/wind-farm-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Travel Aficionado \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 147-megawatt Weatherford Wind Energy Center.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The looming Dec. 31 expiration of the federal production tax credit for renewable energy helped drive a last-minute rush to start construction on wind energy projects around the country and in Oklahoma.<\/p><p>Developers had to start construction by 2013 to qualify, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-national-wind-farm-construction-boom-underway-with-expiration-of-tax-credit\/article\/3928966\/?page=1\">Paul Monies reports<\/a>, &#8220;but the wind industry fears another bust if the credit isn&#8217;t renewed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oklahoma developers didn&#8217;t finish any wind farms in 2013, but the state remains in sixth place for wind capacity with 3,134 megawatts. Two Oklahoma wind farms began construction in the fourth quarter: TradeWind Energy&#8217;s 141-megawatt Osage County development and Enel Green Power NA&#8217;s 150-megawatt Origin wind farm in Murray and Carter counties.<!--more--><\/p><p>Public Service Co. of Oklahoma signed three power-purchase agreements for nearly 600 megawatts of wind from three new projects to be constructed in Oklahoma. Several out-of-state utilities \u2014 including those in Georgia, Arkansas, Nebraska and Texas \u2014 also took advantage of low prices and signed long-term contracts totaling 700 megawatts with Oklahoma wind developers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The looming Dec. 31 expiration of the federal production tax credit for renewable energy helped drive a last-minute rush to start construction on wind energy projects around the country and in Oklahoma.Developers had to start construction by 2013 to qualify, The Oklahoman&#8216;s Paul Monies reports, &#8220;but the wind industry fears another bust if the credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[238,469,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236"}],"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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18239,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions\/18239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}