Plans for the 1-GW Silverton Wind Farm in New South Wales, Australia have been approved and when it’s all done it’ill be the biggest in the country, helping the country to meet its goal of having 20 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.
The wind farm will take up 80,000 acres of [...]

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) is declaring June 15th as “Global Wind Day” to help in the promotion of wind energy all around the planet. The American Wind Energy Association calling for a national renewable electricity standard and arranging Wind Day tweets.
“In the United States, Global Wind Day comes at a time when the [...]

The Hywind, a 2.3 megawatt wind turbine built by Siemens, combines technologies from both the wind farming industry and the oil and gas sectors, and will be tested off the coast of Norway for two years. Statoil’s Alexandra Beck Gjorv told reporters that the technology, called the Hywind, “should help move offshore wind farms out [...]

The U.S. market for small wind turbines with capacities of 100 kilowatts and less, grew 78 percent in 2008, with a total of 17.3 megawatts of new installed capacity, according to a new study from The American Wind Energy Association. About 38.7 MW of new small wind capacity was installed globally in 2008.
AWEA recently [...]