More prairie wind power Basin Electric is moving into wind power in a significant way, having completed the $250 million, 120 MW PrairieWinds project in North Dakota-the largest wind farm in the U.S. owned solely by a co-op-and another wind project starting construction later this year in South Dakota. By Paul MacDonald At times, the [...]
President’s Call for Energy Security Can Have a Different Outcome This Time A national conversation on America’s energy security could not be more timely and President Obama has taken a leadership role. The following is a statement from Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “We don’t need any more wake-up calls [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – Global wind power capacity is expected to increase by 160 percent over the next five years with China leading the low-carbon power push, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said on Monday. In its annual outlook on the wind power sector, GWEC said it expected installed wind capacity to reach 409 gigawatts [...]
8 April 2010 — The U.S. wind energy industry installed over 10,000 MW of new wind power generating capacity in 2009, the largest year to date, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s 2009 Annual Report, released April 8. In industry rankings, GE Energy remained #1 in U.S. wind turbine sales; NextEra Energy Resources led [...]
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