Windustry

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 5, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$490,903

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Landowner wind energy association resource center - windustry provides direct services, such as site assessments, wind resource analyses, economic modeling, equipment assessment and advising business set-up, to those seeking to develop a community wind project. In 2012, with support from the usda, windustry's lwea resource center continued to assist emerging rural wind energy enterprises in three states (wisconsin, montana and west virginia) and to move these landowner groups further along toward the goal of community-owned wind energy. Through the lwea, we also coordinated the region nine small wind bulk buy program in minnesota.

Activity 3

Wind energy advocacy - windustry works on the federal, state, and local levels to inform and advocate for policies that will stimulate wind development and other forms of renewable energy. Advocacy efforts in 2012 included:windustry worked with two wind industry groups (american wind energy association-awea and distributed wind energy association-dwea) on federal legislation to extend the federal production tax credit (ptc)/investment tax credit (itc). Windustry serves on the community wind committee of awea, which successfully sought an extension of the section 48 ptc/itc for land-based wind power. The itc extension for land-based wind power represents a critical piece of public policy necessary to continue the growth of distributed and community wind. Also, as an active member of dwea, windustry sought an expansion of the existing itc for community wind projects under 20mw which would be good until 2016. In the end, the federal ptc/itc was extended in january 2013 for one year with the added time that if a project begins construction in 2013 it can be completed by december 2014.windustry participated in and was invited to speak and submit comments in a recent distributed generation (dg) facilitated stakeholder dialog led by the minnesota division of energy resources (der). Several important findings came out of these discussions that will serve to move the dg process and minnesota's net metering policy forward. This work will help to create the culture of support and encouragement for dg in the short term and the greatly increased dg deployment in the states energy system over the long term that the original policy never did.

Filer

EIN

01-0746862