U.S. Senator, Iowa Chuck Grassley

摘要

No one in Washington, D.C., is a bigger champion of the wind energy production tax credit than U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, according to Bob Eschliman, the news editor at a suburban paper outside Des Moines, Iowa. Indeed, Grassley is the father of the wind energy tax credit, having sponsored the first-ever provision enacted in 1992, and has sponsored and secured numerous extensions of the wind energy incentive since its creation. Grassley's unfailing commitment to wind energy is reflected by his state's overall success in the industry: Iowa leads the nation for the percentage of electricity generated by wind energy at 24.7%. The state boasts 101 wind farms producing 5.1 GW of energy, third in the nation, according to AWEA.