{"id":8796,"date":"2012-08-15T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2012-12-20T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:58:55","slug":"oklahoma-still-top-10-in-wind-industry-says-presidential-politics-could-blow-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/15\/oklahoma-still-top-10-in-wind-industry-says-presidential-politics-could-blow-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Still Top 10 in Wind, Industry Says Presidential Politics Could Blow Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8800\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Canadian Valley Technical Center wind energy student Jessie Bean stands near of a 13-story wind turbine in El Reno.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/windjobs07.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8491\" title=\"H-P Rig\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/windjobs07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Valley Technical Center wind energy student Jessie Bean stands near of a 13-story wind turbine in El Reno.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma is No. 8 in the nation for wind-generation capacity, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.eere.energy.gov\/wind\/news_detail.html?news_id=18562\">a new report<\/a>\u00a0by the Energy Department, but uncertainty over a federal tax credit could hamper wind production here and across the U.S.<\/p><p>The Sooner State added 500 megawatts of wind capacity from 2010 to 2011, but it&#8217;s ranking remained unchanged, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-wind-power-ranks-in-top-10-federal-report-says\/article\/3700981\/?page=1\">reports<\/a> <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s Paul Monies. New wind farms are being developed near Enid and in the Panhandle, but industry officials say growth depends upon a federal wind production tax credit.<\/p><p><em>The Oklahoman<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uncertainty over the credit&#8217;s future led wind-tower manufacturer DMI Industries to announce the closure of two factories last week, including<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/08\/tulsa-wind-tower-manufacturer-closing-amid-industry-uncertainty\/\"> one in Tulsa<\/a>. More than 165 people will be laid off in Tulsa by November after current orders are fulfilled, parent company Otter Tail Corp. said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2012\/08\/obama-hits-romney-ryan-on-wind-tax-credits-132076.html\">The tax credit has become a presidential campaign issue<\/a>, too. President Barack Obama wants to keep it; presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney wants to eliminate it, which &#8220;puts him at odds with several Republican lawmakers and governors,&#8221; Monies reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma is No. 8 in the nation for wind-generation capacity, according to a new report\u00a0by the Energy Department, but uncertainty over a federal tax credit could hamper wind production here and across the U.S.The Sooner State added 500 megawatts of wind capacity from 2010 to 2011, but it&#8217;s ranking remained unchanged, reports The Oklahoman&#8216;s Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":8800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,301,300],"tags":[418,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796"}],"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=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}