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Let's be clear: Britain needs wind turbines. Lots of them. But just about the worst place to erect them is on top of peat bogs, which are huge stores of carbon that can easily leak carbon dioxide into the air when damaged by the inevitable roads or drains.

Electricity generated by Germany's first offshore wind energy park began streaming into the national network on Wednesday as three wind turbines located 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the North Sea island of Borkum went online.

As reported in Green, Inc., at least one state legislature is wrestling head on with wind energy facility siting. [Postsctipt: Here's news on another state, Wisconsin state wind siting legislation developments, from Wind for Wisconsin] As reported, the North Carolina Senate voted overwhelmingly for Senate Bill 1068, which would limit ridge top wind turbines to those erected for the purpose of generating electricity for residential purposes and provided that they are no more than 100 feet tall to the hub...

Energy Minister Jim Mather has hailed a new device which combines wave and wind power as "ground-breaking". Wave power company Green Ocean Energy has developed the Wave Treader, which is specially designed to be attached to the base of an offshore wind turbine in a bid to harness energy from both the wind and the waves.

South Dakota ranks fourth in the nation in potential wind energy resources but only 20th in installed wind energy output.

Germany's first offshore wind power park, Alpha Venture in the North Sea, has begun the gradual commissioning of the first three of its total 12 turbines, a spokesman for the venture said on Wednesday. "I had information last night that the three have started running and full test production levels will be reached within days,"....

When the Wall Street Journal praises wind power for lowering electricity prices, you know we've reached a benchmark in renewable energy.

The 13-kilometre submarine cable which will carry electricity from the Hywind, the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine, has now been installed and tested in the sea north-west of Stavanger. This pilot project, based on StatoilHydro’s own concept, ranks as the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine. It arrived on location 10 kilometres from land in late June.

The US has the fastest-growing wind power market in the world for the fourth consecutive year, according to a research report. The US Department of Energy revealed the nation's grid-connected wind power capacity increased by 60 percent in 2008, reflecting investments totalling £9.75 billion in new wind projects.

If it came to a choice, surely most people would rather have a few turbines littering the Scottish highlands, solar panels on public buildings and nuclear stations along the coasts than scrap with China or Russia for fuel.

The Lone Star state famously leads the U.S., itself the world leader, in wind power. But how much wind power—really—does Texas have?

A new wind farm in Aberdeenshire has been given the go-ahead, six years after the original application was lodged.

Renewable energy experts have pointed out that Northern Ireland is ideally placed to capitalise on wind and wave energy, cutting its heavy reliance on imported power — but the race to go green could be held up by damning new research from a leading New York paediatrician.

Wind turbine designer and maker Clipper Windpower has shot up more than 16% following a trading update confirming strong sales so far this year, a solid cash position and growing interest from US clients.

The Belwind offshore wind project has closed €546 million ($768 million) in financing, bringing it back from the brink after the original developer Econcern filed for bankruptcy. Construction of the 165MW first phase of the €613.9 million wind farm, located 47 kilometres off the Belgian coast, is set to begin on 1 September.

American Superconductor Corp., a maker of wind energy components and transmission lines, surged the most in a year after reporting its first quarterly profit in 18 years as a public company on Chinese sales.

"Each of us saves up to 1,500 rupees (18 dollars) that we would have spent on kerosene. I couldn't afford to educate my children, but now I'll put two of my four daughters in school,"

The story notes that ’storage’ can be affected if wind is used for pumping water or grinding corn...

The Binh Thuan Province Department of Industry and Trade said Monday it has signed a wind power development agreement with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan’s biggest heavy-equipment maker, plans a wind-power generator assembly plant in the U.S. or Canada early next year to benefit from President Barack Obama’s push for cleaner energy.

EDPR, the world's fourth-largest wind power operator in terms of installed capacity, said its net profit rose to 65 million euros ($92.80 million), above 62 million euros expected on average by analysts.

A power company advertisement which used images of a planned North East wind farm has been deemed “likely to mislead”. E.ON’s TV ad and other promotional material for the proposed West Ancroft wind farm development in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, showed turbines that were only half the size of the ones planned, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said.

Trading company Sumitomo Corp (8053.T) entered the U.S. wind power market with its acquisition of a 42.5 percent interest in a Texas wind farm, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Mark Twain famously complained that rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated. The same could be said of the U.S. wind-power industry. Despite plenty of warnings that the credit crunch would kneecap wind power this year, it’s still a fast-growing sector. In the second quarter, the U.S. installed 1,210 megawatts of wind power, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New installments of U.S. wind energy in the second quarter of this year fell by more than half from the first quarter as the recession helped cut contracts for new turbines, an industry group said.

Wind turbine company Vestas is to go to court later in an attempt to force workers staging a sit-in at its Isle of Wight factory to leave the building.

One of the hottest places in the world is set to become the site of Africa's most ambitious venture in the battle against global warming.

Premier Wen Jiabao said during a weekend tour in northeastern Jilin province that the country needed an appropriate scale of installed wind power to ensure sustainable development in the power equipment making sector and to prevent blind expansion.

The United States currently has 28,206 megawatts of installed wind turbines, which represents about 1 percent of the nation's electricity supply.

WORRIES for the safety of wayward skydivers is just one of the concerns that has led Hobart to blow away a proposal to install wind-turbine power generators on a CBD rooftop.