Renewable Energy

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock If the latest proposal for the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) is approved, it would dramatically decrease the incentive’s amount and eventually phase it out altogether. Introduced on Thursday by U.S. House of Representative Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, (R-MI), the new proposal would retroactively reduce the credit from […]

By Tim Radford U.S. engineers have thought of a new way to take the heat out of a hurricane. Fortuitously-placed offshore wind farms could make dramatic reductions in wind speeds and storm surge wave heights. Hurricanes are capricious consequences of peculiar sea temperature and wind conditions, while wind farms are the outcome of years of […]

There are at least 700 renewable energy projects on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) grounds. The department’s largest solar array was launched this month in Arizona. The Davis-Monthan Air Force base (D-M) in Tucson, AZ celebrated the ribbon cutting of a 16.4-megawatt photovoltaic solar array earlier this month. The array is powerful enough to provide electricity to 3,000 homes […]

A London college has evidence to dispel notions that wind turbines only have decade-long lives. According to new research from Imperial College, most turbines can last up to a quarter of a century. In fact, the United Kingdom’s oldest turbines, built in the early ’90s, are still going strong, producing three-quarters of their original output after […]

There’s clearly a lot of honor in being named the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., and developers keep that in mind with each deal they strike and announcement they make. In the past two weeks, Deepwater Wind announced deals that it believes keeps its Block Island Wind Farm “on target to become the nation’s first […]

Remember Mark Jacobson, the Stanford University professor who during a Late Show With David Letterman appearance said we already have enough wind to power the entire world “seven times over?” That wasn’t hyperbole—Jacobson believes it and his team at the Solutions Project has unveiled a 50-state plan on how the U.S. could shed itself from oil, coal […]

Groups like the American Bird Conservancy and Biodiversity Conservation Alliance are willing to be allies to wind energy, but only when they don’t believe that animals are at grave risk. The two organizations voiced opposition this week to plans for a large wind facility in Wyoming that would include 1,000 turbines on an equal amount […]

Earlier this week, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) hoped renewable energy advocates would save a little bit of love for wind on Valentine’s Day. A look at the #IHeartWind hashtag on Twitter shows that the group’s wish has been granted. AWEA’s account asked followers why they love wind energy. The results were creative and photogenic, […]