As we reported earlier the U.S. wind power industry saw record growth that resulted in it becoming the number one wind energy producing country in the world. Germany slipped to number and is currently sulking a little bit.
Another important aspect of this massive growth is that there is now more wind power industry jobs in [...]

A new wind farm is being built in Kenya that will be large enough to produce a full 30% of the country’s energy needs. Kenya has experienced a growing demand for power with an average increase of 8% per year.
The Kenyan wind farm will produce 300 megawatts of power and is a private venture which [...]

In 2008 U.S. investment in the wind power industry totalled $17 billion and saw wind energy output boosted by 8,300 megawatts. This was substantial enough to make the U.S. the world leader in wind power, overtaking Germany.
The U.S. now produces approximately 25 gigawatts of electricity from wind power, which is enough to provide power for [...]

Jay Leno has brought the power of wind to NBC.com. In the above video, Leno discusses MagLev wind turbine, a turbine that levitates on a magnetic field. Because the turbine uses less resistance, more energy is conserved and there is less mechanical wear. This MagLev turbine is going in Ed Begley’s house, but Leno says [...]

A civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford has conducted a study on “clean energy” technologies. Professor Mark Z. Jacobsen concluded that wind is the cleanest of the technologies. Other winners, in order, are concentrated solar (the use of mirrors to heat a fluid), geothermal, tidal, solar photovoltaics (rooftop solar panels), wave, and hydroelectric.
The lesser [...]

Barack Obama spoke at Cardinal Fastener, a Bedord, Ohio factory that produces parts for wind turbines.
Obama vowed to put a half million people to work, building wind turbines and solar panels, creating more jobs in the renewable energy industry.
“Renewable energy isn’t something pie-in-the-sky,” Obama said. “It’s not part of a far-off future. It’s happening all [...]

President Barack Obama faces a real political bind. Senator Edward Kennedy, who was an early backer of Obama and who suffered a seizure at his inauguration, is on the opposite side of the fence when it comes to a Cape Cod wind farm, Cape Wind.
Kennedy, a resident of Nantucket, has fought against the wind farm [...]

Canadian provincial governments have been making a big push to help wind energy flourish. The most recent example comes out of Ontario which just signed contracts to build six large wind farms. The farms will provide nearly 500 more megawatts to for the province.
While this is great news for the wind energy industry the sector [...]

Last night Spain beat it’s wind power peak performance record with 11,175 megawatts, breaking its record of 10,880 set in April of 2008.
Spanish wind farms also set a record for the amount of electricity they produced in a given day with 234,059 megawatt-hours – amounting to an impressive 26 percent of the countries power demand.
Spain [...]

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has set a goal of developing 2,000 megawatts of wind power capacity by 2020.
“With the growing interest in wind turbines we see in communities across the Commonwealth [of Massachusetts] and the abundant wind resource we have off our coast, wind power is going to be a centerpiece of the clean energy [...]