Bluewater Wind, Rehoboth Beach, Del. Another Babcock & Brown venture, this project will help provide electricity to approximately 110,000 households in Delaware and help meet the state’s renewable energy mandates. Located about 12 miles from the shore, the turbines will barely be visible from land, and landlubbers won’t be able to hear the turbine noise either. [...]

Pampa Wind Project, Pampa, Texas The pride and joy of T. Boone Pickens’ wind farms, this project is expected to be the largest in the world once it’s completed in 2014. Pickens placed an order with GE Energy for 667 turbines, but the total project could encompass as many as 2,000 turbines. Once dominated by pump [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]