The impact of Production Tax Credits on the profitable production of electricity from wind in the U.S.

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4207-4214

  Lu, Xi ^a   Tchou, Jeremy ^b   McElroy, Michael B ^a   Nielsen, Chris P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Energy Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Levelized cost of energy; Production Tax Credit (PTC); Wind generated electricity

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY FACTORS; CONVENTIONAL POWER; CRITICAL LEVEL; EXTERNAL COSTS; FINANCIAL MODELS; HIGH COSTS; LEVELIZED COST OF ENERGY; LOCAL GRIDS; LOW COSTS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; ONSHORE WINDS; POWER GRIDS; POWER MARKETS; PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT; PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT (PTC); SCALING-UP; TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; WIND DATA; WIND ENERGY; WIND FARM; WIND-GENERATED ELECTRICITY;

COMPETITION; COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PROFITABILITY; TAXATION; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

COMPETITIVENESS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957629917     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.04.034     Document Type: Article

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