Wind Power News

For all of last year, it earned $158.5 million or $1.32 a share, up from $154.4 million or $1.28 a share in 2008.

A Pennsylvania licensee of Mass Megawatts Wind Power Inc. has signed a $5.8 million agreement with a wind power consortium in the Scranton, Pa., area for wind power generation equipment.

The Wilton Wind Energy Center north of Bismarck, N.D., has doubled in size. Basin Electric Power Cooperative says the last of 33 additional wind turbines began operating in late October, bringing the total number of turbines to 66 and the generating capacity of the wind farm to 99 megawatts.

Wind Chill: 37 F Font Size: Michigan State University will receive $83,806 to measure wind speeds in five areas around the state.

There are incentives out there, but to utilize wind power, it will cost you thousands of dollars, at least up front.But if you wait out the investment, homeowners like Gail and Dan Dulgar of Seneca County say you'll get paid back.In April the Dulgars installed a wind turbine in their back yard.

Enbridge Inc and Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. announced Thursday a partnership to develop a wind energy project in Ontario which would create 300 construction jobs.

Now, a team of aerospace engineers is applying the principles that keep airplanes aloft to create a new wave-energy system that is durable, extremely efficient, and can be placed anywhere in the ocean, regardless of depth.

The Maryland Public Service Commission has approved an application to build a 50-megawatt wind energy farm atop Backbone Mountain near Oakland in Garrett County.

A Wyoming legislative committee voted against sponsoring two bills to tax wind energy development.

Salisbury officials have only recently become aware that 10 wind turbines could be built less than a quarter-mile off Salisbury Beach if the state's draft Ocean Management Plan were adopted.

France risks attracting the ire of its European neighbours when it unveils plans to raise tens of billions of euros in new borrowing just as its EU partners are being urged to begin reining in the stimulus packages that caused deficits and debts to skyrocket.

South Dakota's wind industry may be "sidetracked" by the recent termination of plans to build a coal-fired power plant in the northeastern part of the state, according to a spokesman for the governor.

Ted Kulongoski has asked two state agency heads to quickly review whether Oregon's increasingly expensive incentives for renewable energy companies are necessary, specifically for wind energy.

BALTIMORE -- As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation's race to reduce pollution.

A wind farm capable of generating enough power to light 60,000 average homes will be dedicated this week in northwestern Indiana.

Wind-power projects are among those chosen so far by BC Hydro for the program called Clean Energy Call.

Dallas investor Cappy McGarr said Tuesday that his Chinese partners in a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy farm proposed last month have agreed to build a turbine manufacturing plant in the United States.

An economic impact study says a proposed wind farm on East River Mountain would give Tazewell County $9.2 million in tax revenues over 20 years.

Chinese wind-turbine maker A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. and the U.S. Renewable Energy Group have signed a cooperation agreement for the development and construction of a new production and assembly plant in the United States.

The solicitations have been flooding people's mailboxes lately: pay a bit more on your electricity bill for 100 percent clean wind power.