AWEA - Wind power: Keeping America's lunch money at home

For the foreseeable future, wind energy will remain an industry in which the key is building a domestic market

"The best wind energy plants in the world already produce power as economically as coal, gas and nuclear generators; the average wind farm will be fully competitive by 2016."

In 2010, the U.S. wind turbines industry installed 5,115 MW of generating capacity, increasing the country’s installed wind farm capacity by 15%, according to the American Wind Energy Association

Wind power supports 75,000 jobs today across the U.S. and the promise of 500,000 American jobs in manufacturing, construction, engineering, development and other fields less than 20 years from now

The latest episode tells of how land lease payments from wind farm have given a fresh and much-needed revenue stream for the Maryhill Museum of Art, which is located along the Columbia River in Washington

"Now more than ever, wind turbines industry leaders and communicators must stress the importance of wind farm in America's energy portfolio," said AWEA CEO Denise Bode

Wind energy plants racked up the most support among a series of energy projects in a recent survey of public attitudes toward local land development, according to a New York Times blog article by Felicity Barringer

USA - AWEA launches WindTV

The American Wind Energy Association has launched WindTV a video presentation of people whose lives have been positively affected by the wind power industry

"AWEA applauds the Obama administration for taking steps to move from merely talking about transmission to actually getting projects permitted and under construction"

AWEA Blog - Letter writers take NY Times to task for anti-wind energy op-ed

While the wind farm will occupy 175 acres, more than 2,000 acres of prime animal habitat will also be conserved as mitigation for any wildlife effects

Guest article by Lawrence H. Mott. Mr. Mott is a board member of Renewable Energy Vermont and Principal Consultant at SgurrEnergy, Inc., a renewable energy consultancy firm.

AWEA Blog: Fact check: Michaels errs on wind's contribution

Patrick Michaels, a contrarian climate scientist, posted an article at Forbes.com recently criticizing wind power. The following response was posted as a comment

We have good news for Investor's Business Daily, which expressed concern yesterday in an editorial about possible government favoritism in payments made under the wind energy production tax credit

Wind energy, as a proven commercial technology, utilizes the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit to incent over $7 billion of other private investment to keep growing a new U.S. manufacturing sector, and providing affordable, homegrown energy. It does

New report gives best 'apples to apples' picture to date of federal support for all energy sources. A recently released report from a group of venture capital investors attempts to give a clear picture of the playing field for federal support wh

AWEA - 24 governors ask President to focus on wind energy deployment

Both parties’ candidates told how wind creates jobs and U.S. manufacturing

The quake and tsunami which devastated Japan's Fukushima nuclear power complex (Japanese wind farm plants were largely unaffected, and quickly back in operation).

A coalition of 24 US governors from the major parties and each region of the country has asked the administration to take steps to provide a more favourable business climate for the expansion of wind energy

Robert Bradley, of the misleadingly named and petro-funded Institute for Energy Research, has a new opinion article on Forbes.com attacking federal incentives for wind power

Following last weekend’s articles citing local anti-wind activists and groups with very little balance, the Los Angeles Times published another article Wednesday with a variety of misleading allegations about allegedly unsafe practices in the wind power i

Exhibition Ticker - AWEA OFFSHORE WINDPOWER 2011 Conference & Exhibition

Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. / June 3-6

Texas set a new record for electricity demand, and as it had a day before, wind power helped keep the lights on and the air conditioning running. Texas wind turbines contributed 2,000 MW during that hour

AWEA - Wind Uprising, a documentary about the development of the first wind farm in Utah

Wind Uprising chronicles the turbulent journey shared by an entrepreneur and an engineer who broke trail for wind power in coal country

New wind farm projects contributed roughly 25% of the new capacity added to the U.S. electrical grid in 2010, compared to 42% in 2009, 43% in 2008, 34% in 2007, 18% in 2006 and 12% in 2005

AWEA - Energy policy tops list of needs at wind energy manufacturing conference

The most important U.S. policy encouraging wind power, the federal wind energy production tax credit (PTC), will expire at the end of 2012

July 18, 2011 This past week has been notable for a spate of positive news items on U.S. wind power development, although the looming expiration of a key federal incentive is casting an increasing shadow over the wind turbines plants.

This past week has been notable for a spate of positive news items on U.S. wind power development, although the looming expiration of a key federal incentive is casting an increasing shadow over the wind turbines plants

Exhibition Ticker - AWEA OFFSHORE WINDPOWER 2011 Conference & Exhibition

Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland / October 11 - 13

AWEA - Wind power makes an impact in West Virginia

It's taken a while to get started, but wind energy is moving steadily forward in West Virginia, according to a recent report from Charleston, WV-based WOWK-TV

Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA), a rural electric cooperative serving the interior of Alaska, recently approved the proposed 24-MW Eva Creek wind power project