Congressional moves to keep the U.S. government funding through the middle of 2016 translate to a vote of confidence for wind energy, an industry group said. U.S. lawmakers last week passed a series of spending measures including an extension to subsidies for renewable energy programs. The American Wind Energy Association said the wind energy sector boomed in 2012 as developers raced to take advantage of tax incentives. Policy uncertainty the following year, however, caused a 92 percent reduction in wind energy installations . Recent renewable energy support from Washington followed pledges made at a U.N. climate summit in Paris by nearly 200 world powers to take the steps necessary to help thwart global warming. “This American wind power success story just gets […]