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Wind whipping across the Great Plains can generate a lot of electricity. But transporting that electricity from remote areas to cities and towns can be a big task.
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A "bomb cyclone" hit the Oregon coast Tuesday evening. NWS, Medford, Oregon
Two major storms are already walloping the U.S. in time for Thanksgiving.
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Trump Organization to Pay $290,000 for Failed Legal Fight Against Scottish Wind Farm
13 November
Renewable Energy
President Donald Trump doesn't like wind turbines.
In April, he claimed they caused cancer, and he sued to stop an offshore wind farm that was scheduled to go up near land he had purchased for a golf course in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. He lost that fight, and now the Trump Organization has agreed to pay the Scottish government $290,000 to cover its legal fees, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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Significant Renewable Energy Growth in U.S. Very Soon, New Estimates Predict
06 November
Renewable Energy
After revising its three-year U.S. power forecast, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewables by 2022, according to a review of the data by the SUN DAY Campaign, a pro-renewables research and education nonprofit.
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Offshore Wind Power Could Produce More Electricity Than World Uses, says International Energy Agency
28 October
Renewable Energy
Vattenfall Nederland / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0
By Eoin Higgins
A new report from the International Energy Agency released Friday claims that wind power could be a $1 trillion business by 2040 and that the power provided by the green technology has the potential to outstrip global energy needs.
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Workers attend to a rooftop solar panel project on May 14, 2017 in Wuhan, China. Kevin Frayer / Getty Images
By Simon Evans
Renewable sources of electricity are set for rapid growth over the next five years, which could see them match the output of the world's coal-fired power stations for the first time ever.
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Wind farm in Idaho. Jerry and Pat Donaho / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
By Philip Warburg
Advances in technology, improved economics and broad political support are making wind power a formidable twenty-first century energy resource. Top-ranking Denmark draws 41 percent of its electricity from wind; Ireland follows with 28 percent; the European Union as a whole gets 14 percent of its power from wind.
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Wind turbines off the Yorkshire coast. Paul Robinson / EyeEm / Getty Images
The world's largest offshore wind farm will now be powered with the world's largest wind turbine, The Guardian reported Tuesday.
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Republicans and Democrats Come Together for National Clean Energy Week
25 September
Renewable Energy
An American flag flies next to a new wind turbine Wiota, Iowa. Flickr / CC BY 2.0
These days, bipartisan collaboration sometimes seems impossible. But during National Clean Energy Week, Republicans and Democrats come together for meetings in Washington, D.C., and workshops across the country.
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Ahead of the UN climate summit and the global climate strike, the world's largest search engine announced that the tech behemoth will make its biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy yet, signing on to a series of agreements that will increase Google's wind and solar investments by 40 percent, as Quartz reported.
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Luis Alfonso de Alba Gongora, the UN secretary-general's special envoy for the climate summit speaks at The World Economic Forum holds the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2018 in New York on Sept. 24, 2018. Ben Hider / World Economic Forum
When United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decided to hold a high-level climate summit in conjunction with this year's General Assembly kicking off next week, he was well aware of the paradox of his initiative.
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