US Wind Industry Seeks Same Tax Incentives as Solar

In a strategic shift, the American wind industry has begun pressing lawmakers to extend solar’s ITC to onshore wind projects. The U.S. wind industry has begun a push in Washington, D.C. to level the tax-incentive playing field with solar energy, pivoting from its longstanding but now fading wind Production Tax Credit (PTC). The American Wind Energy Association, the industry’s main trade group, wants to see onshore wind projects be made eligible for the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) currently available to solar plants, said AWEA chief executive Tom Kiernan, speaking Thursday in New York. “What we’re up on Capitol Hill talking about is including wind in Section 48 [of the tax code], which is where solar is — i.e., the ITC,” Kiernan said at an event hosted by AWEA.