The U.S. Wind Energy Production Tax Credit – time for a change
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Report summary
Table of contents
- Key Takeaways
- Introduction
- Historical trends in wind power development and pricing
- The wind PTC subsidy is actually growing , but unequally
- Big winners of the recent PTC extensions
- Market impacts of the PTC gold rush
- Unintended consequences and buyer’s remorse?
- It is time to replace the wind PTC with a phased-out ITC for all mature renewable technologies, plus additional support for immature technologies
Tables and charts
This report includes 10 images and tables including:
- Figure 1 Historical Wind PPA Prices 1996-January 2014
- Figure 2 Location of U.S. wind farms operational after mid-2013 or under construction
- Figure 3 Wind PTC revenue as a percentage of unsubsidized levelized costs
- Figure 4 Estimated State PTC Revenues From Recent and Under Construction Wind Farms
- Figure 5 MISO-MidAmerican Zone Real-time Prices and Weighted Wind Revenue
- Figure 6 Correlation between hourly MISO wind generation and MidAmerican Implied Heat Rates
- Figure 7 ERCOT HUB Real-time Prices and Weighted Wind Revenue
- Figure 8 Correlation between hourly ERCOT wind generation and ERCOT Implied Heat Rates
- Figure 9 H1 LTO historical and forecast capacity prices for selected Midwest zones (2015 $/kW-yr)
- Figure 10 Estimated wind LCOE using PTC versus using 25% ITC
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