Posted on 10 August 2010
The state of Iowa has been tireless in their efforts to become more sustainable in the last five years, and now they have numbers to prove it. A press release from earlier this year says that up to 20% of Iowa’s electricity is produced by wind. The document is from the Iowa Policy Project.
The organization’s [...]
Posted on 22 July 2010
Major wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems has announced that they’ve won a contract which will deliver 190 turbine units of for a wind power project in the US state of California. The order is Vestas’ largest one for a single site and is for the Alta Wind Energy Center near Tehachapi, California.
The [...]
Posted on 21 July 2010
Google made a big move this week to use more renewable energy when they signed a 20-year contract with an Iowa wind farm that will allow Google to purchase wind power at a set rate over the next two decades.
The energy from the NextEra Energy Resources wind farm will be sufficient to power “several data [...]
Posted on 12 July 2010
Egypt plans to invite bids for the construction of a 1,000-megawatt wind energy plant in the Gulf of Suez at an international tender in September, according to Aktham Abou El- Ella, a spokesman for the Electricity Ministry of Egypt. Construction of the wind farm, which will be located in the Gabal El-Zeit area, will be [...]
Posted on 14 June 2010
Energy Secretary Steven Chu stated today that the Gulf oil spill emphasized the importance of developing clean energy sources in the U.S. like wind power.
Chu, who has never been shy about touting the importance wind power has for the national energy program, visited the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center where they are [...]
Posted on 18 May 2010
The state of Texas has attained their goal of getting 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity this year. The best news is that the goal has been attained fifteen years earlier than scheduled.
According to a report filed with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas last week, Texas has 10,367 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, and [...]
Posted on 04 May 2010
Wind controversy over in Wales: plans to transport wind turbine blades and towers along mid Wales’ country roads are being tested and people are up in arms over it. BBC news is reporting that a truck towing an extended trailer with a police escort carried out the first trial run on Tuesday, with a second [...]
Posted on 04 May 2010
The company that owns the universe will soon be investing $38.3 million into two NextEra Energy Resources wind farms to hurry the process of serving people with clean, renewable energy.
The wind farms currently generate 169.5 megawatts of power; that’s enough juice to power more than 55,000 homes, according to Google.
In February of this year, Google [...]
Posted on 30 April 2010
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has announced the results of a national survey of the public opinion of wind energy. Conducted in March, the results conclude that there is generally a clear support for wind energy as well as public support for new projects.
Highlights of the survey include the fact that 89% of respondents believe [...]
Posted on 30 April 2010
Canada’s capital city of Ottawa saw a Conservative group named, the North Gower Wind Action Group, march on Queen’s Park to deliver a staggering 408 signature petition to stop the building of 10 wind turbines in the Ottawa community.
The protestors opposition to the bubilding of the wind turbines was based on the belief that they [...]