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 [...]

The American Wind Energy Association is pulling its 2009 convention out of Minneapolis because there’s not enough space to hold it here, the group said Friday. The move will leave a big hole in the city’s summer convention schedule next year, and convention officials called the loss “devastating”.

Turning Cell Phone Towers into Wind Turbines It’s a novel idea, turning cell phone towers into wind turbines.  No doubt, cell phone towers dot across the US, in fact there are over 200,000 cell phone towers in the US, in a study completed in 2007. A San Marcos company wants to take advantage of the already built [...]

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 [...]