We are in favor of clean alternative energy in the US on a competitive basis. We believe there is a place for government incentives, because the whole energy industry is so bogged down in government mandate anyway that any move one way or the other is a relative incentive or penalty regardless.
We are not familiar with the OR legislation. But we are familiar with the voters in OR being so self-satisfied, naive, and out of touch, that emotional leftist imbalances are fully understandable.
Here's a link
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=122955487327869100
And an interesting quote
Wiser complains that windmill developers are milking the state by increasingly splitting their projects into multiple phases to collect $11 million in energy tax credits for each phase.