Wind Sprints to the Cliff

New York Times: The wind industry's main trade association is predicting that new installations will fall to zero without a renewal of the production tax credit, which applies only to projects finished by New Year's Eve. Since renewal is iffy, some wind machine factories are already shutting down, as my colleague Diane Cardwell reported on Friday. From another perspective, this is the moment for the feast before the famine: the impending deadline means that a surge of projects are approaching completion. On...

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