Wind power is riding a strong breeze. In the last five years, generating capacity in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled. Clusters of tubular wind towers, rising up to 300 feet above ridgelines and gusty plains, are an increasingly familiar sight. But in th…

The Bonneville Power Administration discriminated against wind operators when it unplugged the generators of wind operators in the Pacific Northwest, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled.

Africa is leading the push for clean energy policy-making as climate change turns millions of its people into “food refugees,” the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) Achim Steiner said.

“On the …

Well i must say, it’s been quite a while since did any blogging on this space – something that i think i should be getting back into given my passion on this subject:) It seems in a lot of instances, wind power has been getting a bad rap lately due to the noise that they [...]

The stories of Texas’ wind farms are commonly told in terms of acres and megawatts. Artists Laura Zak and Kim Cypert, however, want to dig deeper into the cultural and social impacts of the state’s booming wind industry. Zak and Cypert are working …

A wind farm in West Virginia has been using big containers of batteries to make the electricity from 61 turbines more useful to the power grid.

Questions arise as to whether the wind and solar power industries could continue growing quickly without government tax credits and other incentives.

Does the money channeled into creating jobs in sectors like wind power achieve what is intended?

A new report from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows that electric vehicles could aid in expanding renewable energy sources like wind in the Pacific Northwest. This region of the United States is increasingly lookin…

Turbines have grown larger and more effective, with some models capable of producing 300 times as much power as those sold 15 years ago.