Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources Inc.; Houston). Yesterday, in Des Moines, Iowa, President George W. Bush signed into law a middle-class tax bill (H.R. 1308) that included an extension of the Federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for renewable energy sources. PTC provides a 1.5 cent/kWh tax credit to producers of energy generated by wind and biomass sources.

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