Berkeley :: CA :: USA
| 5 days ago
An executive order issued last week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for sellers of electricity in the state to have at least 33 percent of the electricity they make generated by renewable sources within 12 years. A portion of the Executive Order states...
Tags: renewable, energy, power, wind power, wind, turbines, turbine, green, solar, renewable energy
Spanish Springs :: NV :: USA
| 5 days ago
Owners of wind turbine project are proposing to move a 120-kilovolt transmission line to the east side of Warm Springs to appease residents opposed to the route through the middle of the valley for their wind turbine project. Tim Carlson and John Johansen,...
Tags: turbines, wind turbines, Nevada Wind
Shelby :: NC :: USA
| 24 days ago
Booming demand for wind power is leading a PPG Industries unit to add 120 jobs and expand a North Carolina plant where it produces materials used for wind turbines. PPG Industries FiberGlass Products Inc. said Thursday they will invest $20.5 million and...
Tags: jobs, wind, turbines, turbine, demand, growing, PPG Industries
Carpinteria :: CA :: USA
| about 1 month ago
The 5-0 vote Wednesday by the Public Service Commission exempts California-based Clipper Windpower Inc. and its Criterion Power Partners subsidiary from having to obtain a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for its 40-turbine project in Garrett...
Tags: wind, power, turbine, west, power plant, projects, turbines, market
Houston :: TX :: USA
| about 1 month ago
T Boone Pickens, a renowned Texan oilman who is raising the capital for the wind farm, told a US television station today that the twofold problem was slowing down his ambitious plan. Pickens, who made a fortune from the oil industry but has been converted...
Tags: credit crunch, wind, energy, oil, renewable, turbine, turbines, dow, money, Boone Pickens, wind farm
Grinnell :: IA :: USA
| about 1 month ago
As a farmer, Ive seen how clean-energy technology helps rural America. In 2008, 113 new wind turbines were installed in Iowa, and 900 are in or near construction. Each creates income to landowners and jobs for construction workers, technicians and truckers....
Tags: turbines, turbine, energy, renewable, wind
Topeka :: KS :: USA
| about 1 month ago
Westar on Friday said the deal works out to an 11 percent rate hike, compared with its original $178 million request for a 15 percent increase. The agreement is subject to the approval of the Kansas Corporation Commission. A KCC staff proposal in September...
Tags: wind, west, energy, power, wind power, turbines, Westar Energy Inc., percent rate, wind farm
London :: United Kingdom
| about 1 month ago
Wind is the new oil and the North Sea will be the new Gulf of Arabia...And the latest batch of turbines installed at the Whitelee onshore farm, being built by ScottishPower, has taken the UK's total installed capacity past three gigawatts (GW), enough...
Tags: power, energy, wind power, turbines, winds farm, Britain
London :: United Kingdom
| about 1 month ago
The Queen's property arm has also shown its willingness to be at the forefront of the battle against climate change by agreeing to buy the world's biggest wind turbine, the 7.5MW Clipper Windpower MBE prototype, codenamed Project Britannia. The turbine,...
Tags: energy, power, turbines, wind power, offshore wind, wind farm, London Array, Abu Dhabi, wind project, Masdar
Milford :: CT :: USA
| about 1 month ago
EDF has appointed OpenHydro Group Limited of Ireland to build the first underwater tidal turbines as part of the French energy giant's pilot project to build a tidal turbine farm to generate electricity from tidal energy.
The OpenHydro partnership...
Tags: turbine, turbines, power, energy, wind, tidal turbines, pakistan
