 My name is Lauren Glickman. I work for the American Wind Energy Association and I am the Deputy Director of Media Strategies in our Public Affairs Department. OUIA is the American Wind Energy Association. We're the National Trade Association for Wind Power and so we represent over 2,000 member organizations here in the U.S. ranging from utilities, developers, manufacturers, nonprofits, academic, anyone who's involved in any sector of the wind industry. We represent their interests to the public as well as to our members of Congress. OUIA has been our top priority for the last year has been to extend the production tax credit for wind energy. It is the single biggest policy driver for wind power here in the U.S. It was first enacted in 1992 and the policy stability that comes around with that tax credit has really allowed the U.S. wind industry to thrive generating 35% of all new electric generating capacity over the last five years which is more than coal and nuclear combined. So that's a pretty big success story but the production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year so we've been working really hard to lobby Congress to extend the production tax credit and give the fastest growing industry one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. a chance to continue to grow and one of the things that we've seen is just a really big success is the growth in the manufacturing sector because of the policy stability since the production tax credit was extended in 2006 this industry has really had a chance to grow and flourish. We have nearly 500 manufacturing facilities across the whole country we really want that supply chain to stay right here in the U.S. Obviously all renewable energy is good and we're advocating for a diversified portfolio that includes that but the big thing is that utility scale wind is here and now it's not really alternative as I mentioned before 35% of all new energy capacity has come from wind power in the last five years and I think that really sets us apart is just how big we are and that we're actually competing with what is known as conventional energy.