A major new report aimed at helping the public and businesses understand the potential for small wind power generation at their sites has been launched. The report, based on research by Met Office Consulting and Entec and supported by the Carbon Trust, aims to improve understanding about the potential for small-scale wind energy in the [...]

Norwegian company StatoilHydro is working on a 2.3 megawatt floating wind turbine that will be attached to the top of ‘Spar-buoy’ and moored to the seabed by three anchor points. It is hoped that the 80 meter diameter, 65 meter high Siemens turbine will have lower deep-water installation costs when compared to traditional wind installations.

There is ample evidence America’s future for wind energy is mainly on the plains, not atop its peaks. If so, projects like TransCanada’s 132-megawatt windfarm in northern Franklin County is perhaps the last of its kind. Maybe it should be. Oilman T. Boone Pickens, whose blood would likely trade for $140/ barrel, is repositioning himself as America’s [...]