Miles of mountain ridges hugging the state’s western border could hold the key to Virginia’s search for alternative energy sources. That is where developers are looking to build more than 100 wind turbines taller than the Statue of Liberty, side by side, on 18 miles of the George Washington National Forest. FreedomWorks, a company with projects in [...]

Based on the high oil prices and environmental pressures, developing new energy sources have become a direction of every countries’ energy policy. Wind power as one of the most mature new energy has entirely supported by Chinese government and the development of wind power industry has been in a booming period.

Utilities and independent developers are poised to more than triple the amount of wind power in the Northwest, a huge increase that underscores the region’s push for renewable energy. “It’s phenomenal,” said Elliot Mainzer, a transmission manager with the federal Bonneville Power Administration. “It’s more than we expected.” Evidence of the wind rush shows up in a [...]

Spanish wind power company Gamesa has commenced production at its E40 million integrated manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China. Gamesa has also signed a contract with the China Longyuan Electric Power Group, for the supply of 405 of its G5X-850kW wind turbines with a total capacity of 344MW.

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 [...]