wind energy

Denmark-based Vestas Wind Systems (VWS:DC) had a big week. First, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer announced that they would be building a tower manufacturing plant in Colorado.

Monolpoly has changed face by becoming more environmentally friendly with wind & solar energy.

The recent spike in electricity supply on the European grid illuminated the problem of storing wind energy, which reamins one of the biggest obstacles to large scale adoption.

Bahrain builds world's largest building-integrated wind-turbines and they sure are gorgeous.

Very cool graphical representation of the growth in installed wind power capacity in the United States since 1999. The image is animated & updates year-by-year. More green = better!

It was announced yesterday that Dell Computer’s 2.1 million-square-foot headquarters in Round Rock, Texas is now powered entirely with renewable energy. 60% of the energy is supplied by

The design consists of seven platforms, six of which are accessible by a central spiral staircase. Plants are grown in containers that are built into the perimeter of each platform. These containers are also designed to collect and store rainwater to water the plants.

Ton van de Wekken, of KEMA Nederland, an energy systems consultancy, writes in the April 1 Renewable Energy World.

Wind turbines have replaced 50 diesel generators on the Galapagos - a step towards sustainability.

Please use this information with caution: you must not cloud your judgment with mental images of backward-spinning electric meters and negative utility bills. While this is possible, you don’t want to spend all of your hard-earned money on a micro turbine that your local HOA, planning board, or zoning commission never lets you put up.

A cool breeze on a hot summer day always feels great, but when that breeze is also running your dishwasher, computer, and TV set, it’ll feel even more refreshing. More and more people these days are harnessing the wind’s energy and using it to generate electricity for their homes.

The efforts that Corn Plus is putting into lowering it's fossil fuel needs is a good example of efforts taking place across the ethanol industry to improve the efficiency of the process. And those efforts are lowering the energy costs and the amount of fossil fuels needed to produce ethanol and making a clean fuel even cleaner.

If the Ministry of Defence in the UK continue to play games with wind farm planners, UK renewable energy targets are going to be hard to achieve. Currently just 2% of the UK's electricity is sourced from renewable energy. It's time for answers, it's time for action.

A recent survey (pdf) found that 87 percent of Massachusetts residents say they are now “more likely to support Cape Wind” in the wake of the recently issued draft environmental impact statement (EIS) that found no major environmental harms resulting from the proje

At its current growth rate, global installed wind power capacity will top 100,000 megawatts in March 2008. The 16,800 Megawatts produced by the United States alone is enough to power 4.5 million homes.