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What is Community Wind?
More than 1,800 homes in Northwest Ohio are powered by wind thanks to Ohio’s first large scale community wind project—part of a new, growing trend in alternate energy.read more
View ArticleRenewables & efficiency - Mar 12
-EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts-Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation-Solar PV has failed in Germany and it will fail in the UKread more
View ArticleRenewables & efficiency - Mar 22
-Throwing the Race for Green Energy-A Rising Green-Tech Tide Will Lift All Boats-The war of words over home-produced electricity feed-in tariffs could cost dearly-Wind resistance-Marine energy projects...
View ArticleThe Logic of Abundance
Too many discussions of the future after peak oil start from the assumption that the only alternative to collapse is maintaining the arrangements for energy distribution and use we have today. This...
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Wind industry growing in blue and red states alike
As Paul Krugman's New York Times Magazine cover story on environmental economics, "Building the Green Economy," was ricocheting around the enviro blogosphere last week, the American Wind Energy...
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Renewables & efficiency - Apr 29
-Giant gravel batteries could make renewable energy more reliable-Regulators Approve First Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.-Colorado Shows How It's Done-Windmill Boom Curbs Electric Power Prices for RWEread...
View ArticleWind's latest problem: it . . . makes power too cheap
The dirty secret of wind: utilities don't like wind not because it's not competitive, but because it brings prices down for their existing assets, thus lowering their revenues and their profits. read more
View ArticleRenewable democracy?
Even where it comes to renewable energy, we face the battle of centralization vs. relocalization, the corporatism of politics vs. democracy. Economically, technologically, politically, we face the same...
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With a boost from innovation, small wind is powering ahead
New technologies, feed-in tariffs, and tax credits are helping propel the small wind industry, especially in the United States. Once found mostly in rural areas, small wind installations are now...
View ArticleRenewables & efficiency - July 16
-Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050-Report sees need for 500 additional biofuels plants-No link between wind turbines and health: report-Residents reject wind farm...
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