News on Wind Power Generation

Wind farm plans stir up storm over military radar

2010-03-18T16:45:14Z

<div id="subtitle">General says turbines would blowing ill wind for military radar, calls for better planning</div><div><p>The U.S. military is growing increasingly concerned that proposed wind farms can disrupt or block radar designed to detect threats and protect America's skies, a problem that is stalling the alternative energy projects around the...

Maine high court upholds state wind farm law

2010-03-11T14:30:25Z

<div id="subtitle">Maine high court upholds law aiming to speed up permit process for wind farms</div><div><p>Maine's highest court on Thursday upheld a state law that aims to hasten the permit process for wind farms in the state.</p><p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously rejected arguments from the Friends of Lincoln Lakes nonprofit group, which challenged the Dep...

Broadwind gets JPMorgan's top rating, shares up

2010-03-09T10:47:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Broadwind Energy up as JPMorgan starts co. at top rating, saying wind sector set to recover</div><div><p>A recovery in the wind energy sector starting in the second half of the year will boost sales growth for Broadwind Energy Inc., a JPMorgan analyst said Tuesday.</p><p>Shares rose rose 41 c...

Mass. wind farm project sent to preservation panel

2010-03-01T15:00:41Z

<div id="subtitle">Interior secretary sends Mass. wind farm project to historical preservation panel for review</div><div><p>The secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday asked a key historical preservation panel to weigh in on a proposed Cape Cod project that would be the nation's first offshore wind farm.</p>...

Deere mulls possible sale of wind energy business

2010-02-25T09:15:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Deere hires Goldman to review options for wind energy business, including its possible sale</div><div><p>Farm equipment maker Deere & Co. said Thursday it has hired investment adviser Goldman Sachs & Co. to review options for the company's wind energy business, including a possible sale.</...

Maine residents push back against wind power farms

2010-02-22T08:55:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Maine wind power industry feels push back from residents concerned about noise, blocked views</div><div><p>As wind power expands in Maine, the industry is feeling a gust of push back from those who worry about the turbines' noise and impact on scenery and about whether too many towers are going up too fast.</p><p>"The wind industry has had a decade head...

Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy

2010-02-22T09:41:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Wyoming debates first-of-its-kind excise tax on wind energy production on its plains, plateaus</div><div><p>A proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind farms to its wind-swept plains and plateaus.</p><p>U.S. Department of the Interior, who is weighing the fate of a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, said Tuesday that killing the pioneering projec...

"Stealth" wind turbine blade may end radar problem

2010-02-22T14:11:57Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - The development of a "stealth" turbine blade, based on military technology, may help overcome the problem of wind farms interfering with aviation radar systems, its developers said.</p><p>The issue of turbine blades confusing radar operators accounts for around half the objections to wind farm planning applications in

CAPE WIND FARM

2010-01-24T10:45:29Z

Map shows site of proposed wind farm near Cape Cod

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NE Colo. wind project gets federal stimulus funds

2010-02-22T16:29:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Northeast Colorado wind project to get $2.5 million in stimulus funds</div><div><p>A community wind-power project on Colorado's northeastern plains will receive $2.5 million in federal stimulus funds.</p><p>Phillips County wants to build a community-owned 30-megawatt project with the ul...

Westar acquires rights for new W. Kansas wind farm

2010-02-22T17:40:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Westar Energy acquires rights to construct new wind farm in western Kansas</div><div><p>Westar Energy Inc. says it has acquired rights for a new wind farm in western Kansas near Spearville.</p><p>The company said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with Infinity Wind Power to develop ...

Montana land board approves wind project

2010-02-22T18:02:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Montana land board agrees to lease land for new wind power project near Big Timber</div><div><p>The Montana land board has agreed to lease land for a new wind power project near Big Timber.</p><p>The Department of Natural Resou...

Antarctic wind farm reduces bases' reliance on diesel

2010-02-22T19:37:54Z

<div><p>WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The world's southernmost wind farm has been opened in Antarctica, the first in what could be a number of renewable energy projects aimed to lower the frozen continent's reliance on diesel for power.</p><p>The construction of the three-turbine Ro...

Fla. company pursues 100 MW wind farm in Montana

2010-02-22T21:02:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Florida company wants to build 100 megawatt wind farm in northeast Montana</div><div><p>A Florida wind developer said that he wants to build a 100-megawatt wind farm on state land in northeast Montana.</p><p>Montana has some of the best winds in the country for power generation, but development has lagged other states.</p><p&...

Wis. regulators approve wind farm near Madison

2010-02-22T21:37:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Wisconsin Public Service Commission approves We Energies wind farm in Columbia County</div><div><p>Wisconsin regulators have approved We Energies' plans for a ...

(FILE PHOTO) Alistair Darling Unveils The 2009 Budget

2010-01-08T13:33:07Z

LIVERPOOL, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 12: (FILE PHOTO) Turbines of the new Burbo Bank off shore wind farm stand in a calm sea in the mouth of the River Mersey on May 12, 2008 in Liverpool, England. Ministers have also been keen to portray it as a "green" budget with a reported £50...

Iberdrola wins bid for British wind farm contract

2010-02-22T23:27:22Z

<div><p>Spanish energy group Iberdrola Renovables said on Friday it had won a joint bid with Sweden's Vattenfall to build "one of the biggest offshore winds farms in the world" in Britain.</p><p>The amount of the deal was not ...

Govt grants licences for offshore wind farm expansion

2010-02-22T23:31:40Z

<div><p>The government granted licences on Friday for a huge expansion of offshore wind farms, based around nine sites which together could provide enough electricity for almost all homes in the country, officials said.</p><p>Foreign firms including Germany's Eon and RWE, Norway's Statoil,

Iberdrola wins bid for wind farm

2010-02-22T23:35:00Z

<div><p>Spanish energy group Iberdrola Renovables said on Friday it had won a joint bid with Sweden's Vattenfall to build "one of the biggest winds farms in the world" in Britain.</p><p>The amount of the deal was not disclosed...