New York State Wind Power By teaming up with General Electric Energy, Noble Environmental Power, a renewable energy company based in Essex, Conn., is helping to boost New York’s wind generation by 70%, adding nearly 300 megawatt hours of power annually in Clinton and Wyoming counties near the Canadian border. The project also helps New York [...]

Sweetwater Wind Project, Sweetwater, Texas One of the largest wind farms in the U.S., this tiny town helped Texas generate the most wind power of any state. Investment firms Babcock & Brown and Catamount are both major backers of the project, which has been lauded for reviving a struggling rural economy. Home to a handful of [...]

Kumeyaay Wind Power Project, Campo, Calif. The Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians leases its land to San Diego Gas & Electric for wind power production. SDG&E also pays the tribe $400,000 a year for the wind energy produced from turbines installed on the tribe’s land in Campo.

One of the first wind farms built in the state, Northern States Power chose this location for a pilot project in 1994 to help meet a state renewable energy mandate. Now owned by Xcel Energy, Buffalo Ridge is one of the highest and windiest wind farms in the region. The project now has 450 turbines [...]

A wind power plant has become operational in suburban Beijing, considered a major step towards making 20 percent of the power supply to the city’s Olympic venues during the games wind-generated. The Guanting Wind Power Plant, beginning operation on Saturday, would not only help fulfil Beijing’s promise of a “green Olympics”, but symbolize the first-ever large-scale [...]