Streetlights usually operate at electricity rates like the ones we pay in our private homes. About one-third of a municipality?s electrical costs are for street lighting. So having that energy provided by some form of renewable energy, means that every cent is saved and for municipalities, whose budgets are being squeezed, that's something serious to consider.
RMT Inc., a renewable energy contractor and unit of Alliant Energy Corp., of Madison, said Thursday that it has been awarded a contract to build the Colorado Highlands Wind project in that state's Logan County. Under the contract awarded by developer Alliance Power Inc., Madison-based RMT will design and construct the 67-megawatt wind farm, providing engineering, procurement and construction of the civil and electrical infrastructure to support the installation of 42 GE 1.6-megawatt wind turbines...
The Vermont utility building a 21-turbine wind power project on Lowell Mountain is facing a potential $11 million cost increase because of transmission upgrades requested by the operators of the New England electric grid.
Guwahati, May 16 : Assam Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi today said solar energy and wind power were not viable means of power generation in the state as it is not naturally endowed with for the purpose.
Construction is speeding along on the $800 million BP Wind Energy Flat Ridge 2 wind farm in southcentral Kansas, causing hundreds of people to temporarily relocate to the Kingman area to help with the project. KAKE News reports that according to Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce Director Wanda Kelsey, the project is proving a big boost for the community, as workers eat in restaurants, rent living spaces and shop at local stores.
This May 18, 2011, file photo, shows a wind turbine near Arlington, Ore. Once again, the federal agency that manages much of the electricity transmission in the Pacific Northwest has ordered springtime shutdowns of wind farms when high water is producing too much hydropower for the grid to handle.
Toronto Stock Exchange (Venture) Symbol: "WND"OTCQX Symbol: "WNDEF"Issued and Outstanding: 62,731,056VANCOUVER, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Western Wind Energy Corp. (the "Company"...
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management could issue its first permit for a wind farm by the latter part of 2012...
Wind energy is under attack from a network of ultra-conservative groups and "think tanks." These think tanks are simply propaganda machines for the fossil fuel industry.
This former member of the Carolina Panthers is helping to build wind farms in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.