"Unplugging wind subsidies; Looming end of wind subsidy could rattle industry"
"Three wind projects near San Diego -- at the McCain Valley, the desert town of Ocotillo and across the Mexican border -- are likely to move forward without help from the wind production tax credit. Yet the future of the decades-old subsidy is likely to change San Diego’s mix of clean energy and how much customers pay for it. At issue is this year’s political debate is whether the wind industry can survive without subsidies that grew out of the 1970s energy crisis. The timing could be especially severe this year..."
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct ... d-of-wind/