]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/wind-energy Blog Articles Tagged with 'wind-energy' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/154222?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy 01/02/2009 - Horizon Wind Energy, part of Portugal's EDP Renovaveis since 2007, has clinched $265 million of tax equity financing for US wind farms - despite the dearth of that type of capital since this autumn's financial crisis...... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/154222?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/154671?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy As we look forward to the new year, we've also reflected on the old, and rediscovered some of the great events, innovations, interviews and debates that 2008 had to offer. For the next week, we will be sharing our picks for the Worldchanging team's b... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/154671?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:00:44 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/154464?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy In their year-end report, the American Wind Energy Association shows another banner year for wind power in the U.S. For the third year in a row, wind energy development has grown at a record pace, generating over $18 billion in revenue. Even though G... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/154464?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:22:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/154226?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy 12/30/2008 - As the wind industry closes out another banner year, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is looking ahead to further progress in 2009...... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/154226?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/maria-energia/154446?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy I wasn't going to create a year-end wrap-up list of my favorite blog posts. I swear. But I couldn't deny that I had a really fun year of blogging: I got to meet lots of amazing people at different energy events, travel a bit and write about some sign... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/maria-energia/154446?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/153824?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy There's a growing movement out west as ranchers and property owners in high, steady wind areas of Wyoming and neighboring western states turn to wind energy associations as a means of better understanding and coming to terms with the growing number ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/153824?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:13:44 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/154086?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy About 14 percent of CDM projects worldwide are wind energy projects. Almost 40 percent are located in China, pictured above. Emissions-reducing projects continued their steady rise across the developing world this year, with investments growing ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/154086?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:56:35 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/153205?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy The following guest post was written by Tom Standing, a semi-retired, part-time civil engineer for the City of San Francisco. In Part 1, Tom takes on the calculations for a 280 MW solar thermal plant in Arizona that I looked at back in February. My... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/153205?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:14:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152998?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Investors Business Daily has an interesting editorial touting nuclear energy in terms of interest to their readers: the pocketbook. Until recently, there was no domestic capacity to manufacture the huge components needed to build nuclear reactor... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152998?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:53:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/153417?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy President-elect Barack Obama nominated the former governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack, to serve as his secretary of agriculture earlier this week. If approved, Vilsack will oversee the world's most productive farmlands, and therefore, some of the world's m... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/153417?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:28:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152947?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy From Forbes (For Job Market, Green Means Growth):The greening of industry is creating a constellation of new careers, and they're not your everyday forestry professions. Many of them are environmental twists on old professions, like law, or in Makowe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152947?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152952?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy The details of President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan forearly next year are not yet drafted, but one thing is clear: Obamawants a lot of the stimulus focused on creating green jobs. A supposed benefit of technology like wind power and solar p... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152952?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152957?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy My next door office neighbor* writes that benefit-cost analysis justifies some wind power subsidies: Aggregating the costs reveals that the project has approximately $121 million in costs and approximately $139 million in benefits. The project is th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152957?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152920?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy George Hart of the Ocean Energy Institute has recently proposed the building of a huge 5 billion watt generating capacity wind arrays in the Gulf of Maine. There is little doubt that New England states and the State of Maine in particular are in nee... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152920?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:49:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/152180?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy On the renewable energy front, here is a look at some data from The Economist on wind energy around the world: (From the Economist): THE first wind farms sprouted in California in the early 1980s, thanks to generous tax credits. Today's machines ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/152180?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:38:36 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/152568?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Hockey Puck Horn. Image credit: O'Canada Gear A Canadian player made famous the hockyism: 'I don't pass the puck to where they are - I pass the puck to where they're going to be'. The lesson seems to have been missed in renewable energy quarters; w... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/152568?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:31:20 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/152745?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Image credit: WikipediaNew research from Stanford University ranks wind power as the most promising alternative source of energy. Titled Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security, the report from civil and environmenta... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/152745?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:40:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/152129?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy 12/10/2008 - El Sewedy Wind Energy, a group set up by an Egyptian cable manufacturer El Sewedy Cables, has inaugurated its manufacturing site for wind turbine towers...... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/152129?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152264?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Nuclear energy supplies about 40% of the energy in Scotland, but its two plants are due to be retired in 15 years. What then? The Scots have been looking at wind energy, and that's still on course: A new independent report has found SNP [Scottis... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/152264?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:41:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/151604?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Here's some food for thought ... copying from Pro Nuclear Democrats' post, check out how much one million barrels of oil looks like compared to a person and a house (see if you can find the person):The US consumes nearly 21 of these cubes each day!Ja... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/151604?rsstype=tag&tag=wind-energy Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:20:00 -0500