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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres called on governments meeting in Tianjin, China, to accelerate their search for common ground to achieve strong action on climate change. With less than two months to go before the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Figueres says a concrete outcome [...] Wind power, one of the largest segments of the renewable energy market, will experience a sharp decline in growth this year. The slowdown comes as a surprise because the stimulus bill included $43 billion for energy projects — a big boost for renewable forms of electricity. [...] September 7th, 2010 | Tags: ATC, Incentives, NPR, Wind Power |  Category: Uncategorized |  Comments are closed By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:44am EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc’s energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc for the next 20 years to power data centers. The deal comes less than three months after the giant Silicon Valley Internet [...] By Bill Gates and Chad Holliday Friday, April 23, 2010; A19 – Washington Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press This country runs on innovation. The American success story — from Ben Franklin’s bifocals to Thomas Edison’s light bulb to Henry Ford’s assembly line to today’s advanced microprocessors — is all about inventing our future. [...] May 18th, 2010 | Tags: Bill Gates, Chad Holliday, Energy, Innovation, Twin Cities, Washington Post | Category: Uncategorized | One comment - (Comments are closed) T. Boone Pickens: Tilting at Minnesota windmills? By Albert Eisele | Thursday, April 1, 2010 WASHINGTON — Get ready for Minnesota’s next big battle over the environment. It’s already heating up in the rolling countryside of southeastern Minnesota’s Goodhue County, and it’s about to get a lot hotter, thanks to the involvement of Gov. Tim [...] May 12th, 2010 | Tags: Goodhue, Minnesota, Pawlenty, Pickens, Wind Turbines | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed News items for Wind Energy are abundant today. Jobs are created by Ingeteam in Milwaukee, global wind capacity is up, and Alaska has won a wind deal. Just how will the recent flaps between the North Dakota Attorney General and Minnesota’s PUC pan out? With one side claiming unfair “tax” and the other claiming unfair “coal-ed war” it’s tough to tell which side is right. Carbon emissions made in the process of creating electricity from coal do indeed pack a mighty [...] January 18th, 2010 | Tags: Coal, North Dakota, Stenehjem, STRIB | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed A wind farm with 7 MW turbines is now open near d’Estinnes Belgium. d’Estinnes boasts the largest wind turbines in operation with enough output to power 48,000 households. Enercon has raised the bar with this new wind farm, and has raised expectations in the field of renewable energy. An article outlining specifics and capacity is [...] November 30th, 2009 | Tags: LinkedIn, Wind Farms | Category: Uncategorized | One comment - (Comments are closed) Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to predict who would win the World Series, the Super Bowl, the upcoming election…How about being able to predict the WIND? This nice article from the Wall Street Journal Blog ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL discusses some emerging technology: Predicting the Wind: A New Forecasting Tool for Wind Power . Apparently [...] Five metro cities erecting wind-power turbines By JIM ADAMS, Star Tribune October 10, 2009 Wind power turbines are going up in five metro cities, with Anoka set to get one on Monday, as a multi-city consortium moves forward with plans to use recycled windmills to generate renewable energy. In Anoka, the 115-foot-high white structure [...] |
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