wind power

A brief description of several wind and solar power systems that may be appropriate for your home or business.

The European Parliament has set a target of having 25% of their energy come from renewable energy by 2020. Of that 25%, half is planned to come from wind energy.

Europe is already well on their way to making this happen as well, with 5 countries (Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Germany) having more than 5% of their energy provided by wind farms. Currently there exists 80 GW of installed wind capacity in the EU, though only 3.5 GW of that is derived from wind farms built off-shore.

A very ambitious project by the Belgian government to build a wind turbine park 30 kms (20 miles) off the Belgian coast on the Thornton bank. The first wind turbines base towers left Ostend.

U.S. wind power is growing at a breath-taking pace. Representatives from top wind turbine manufacturers including GE Energy, Gamesa, Siemens and Vestas, discuss U.S. wind energy's future outlook.

Lists the most ambitious clean energy and environmental-sustainability projects in the world today.

Cool list generated by the EPA yesterday.

Environmentalists are used to fighting battles, but this week’s rejection of the Lewis wind farm in Scotland highlights how they are lining up against each other in countryside battles, as issues like protecting birdlife habitat conflict with the need to produce clean energy.

Great idea - a $100 wind turbine to power $100 laptops? (or LED lights, mobile phones and possibly fridges)

Plans to build one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms in the Outer Hebrides have been formally rejected after Scottish ministers ruled the £500m scheme would devastate a globally significant peatland.

rapid growth of U.S. wind power depicted in maps

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!

David Cameron, Conservative Party leader met with Dale Vince, Ecotricity Founder to have a look around the GreenPark wind turbine - and have a chat...

A short history of the most ambitious government research project you've never heard about.

Decades after developing one of the world’s first vertical-axis wind turbines, NRC now helps manufacturers optimize their turbine designs. In December 2006, researchers at the NRC Institute for Aerospace Research (NRC-IAR) tested the performance of a wind turbine for the U.K. firm Quiet Revolution, using NRC’s 9m by 9m wind tunnel.