Why Congress Needs to Renew Clean Energy Subsidies

by , posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 6:22 pm

from the Center for American Progress

President Obama is slated to visit TPI Composites on Thursday, a wind turbine blade manufacturer in Newton, Iowa, where he will urge Congress to extend two key renewable energy tax credits — the Production Tax Credit for wind and a clean energy manufacturing credit.

Wind energy provides thousands of jobs in Iowa, like this one of a turbine maintenance worker in Franklin County. The Center for American Progress traveled to Iowa to talk to experts and officials about how uncertain federal policy is hurting the wind industry.

See also: “Wind Energy Provides Stable Middle-Class Jobs in America’s Heartland: Congressional Inaction on Key Tax Credit Threatens to Undermine the Industry,” by Andrew Satter, www.americanprogress.org, December 20, 2011

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