Wind turbine makers still have a chance to pick up substantial new US orders in 2017, even after the 45GW of equipment developers qualified for the full production tax credit (PTC) in 2016, says MAKE Consulting.

“The industry is definitely in high gear right now,” Luke Lewandowski, Chicago-based research manager at MAKE, tells Recharge.

“Developers pushed as hard as they could to qualify as much as possible last year to secure the 100% PTC,” he says.