• Uncertainty about tax policy in a bitterly partisan Washington has becalmed planning for wind energy development in the United States.
• The future of the U.S. production tax credit, like the fates of many tax credits and deductions that have contributed to decision-making in the private sector, is up in the air in this election year.
• At least one company, Pattern Energy Group LP, is working instead in Ontario, where a feed-in tariff price floor for wind energy makes a $600 million, 270 MW project look like a better bet.

From the article: "Planning for wind energy developments in the U.S. for 2013 is literally at a stand-still due to the uncertainty of an extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC). But that isn’t stopping some developers from moving forward with new projects for next year. These new builds might, however, pop up not in the U.S., but in a community with a stable government support for renewable energy – Ontario. ..."