Wind Energy
Wind energy is a renewable energy source used to create electricity and mechanical power from wind motion. We include stories about the production of wind energy and its use.
Burning Down the House: The Shocking Economics of Energy
Imagine if Mitt Romney's sons burned through their entire family fortune in less time than it takes to watch Titanic in 3D. That would ...
Goldman Sachs to Pump $40bn into Clean Energy
Goldman Sachs Group plans to invest $40 billion over the next 10 years into renewable energy, an area ...
AEP Sustainability Report: Carbon Emissions Rise 1.5%, Revenues up 4.8%
American Electric Power's total CO2 emissions rose just shy of 1.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, while revenues rose 4.8 percent over that time period, ...
NREL Unveils ‘More Accurate’ Energy Project Emissions Calculator
Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions from solar photovoltaics are about 5 percent of those from coal; wind and solar are about equal in emissions; and nuclear ...
Tool to Determine Solar and Wind Energy Potential of Contaminated Sites
Companies have a new way to determine the feasibility of on-site renewable energy, after the EPA launched a tool to test vacant and contaminated ...
Why Congress Can’t Kill the PTC
The wind power production tax credit (PTC) has survived multiple extensions since its inception in 1992, and now it requires support more than ...
McDonald’s Unveils Sustainable Practices
Fast food chain McDonald's has employed techniques including $500 staff incentives, 30 percent wind power requirements and lightweight tractor-trailers to help green up its operations, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf Sheen
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
India's environment minister called the EU aviation ...
Clean Energy Records Lowest Quarter of Investment Since 2009
After clocking up a record in 2011, new financial investment in clean energy in Q1 2012 was the weakest since the depths of the financial ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star Buildings, WindMade, Corrugated Packaging, WEEE
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes nine items.
The newly released list of U.S. cities with ...
GE Pushes GM to Second Place in 2011 U.S. Cleantech Patents
GE led companies securing U.S. patents for clean energy technologies in 2011, with 184, pushing last year's top company GM down to second place with ...
Renewables Briefing: Riverside, 8minutenergy, Cogenra Solar, MLB Teams
Here's the latest news on renewable power installations, contracts, financing and permits affecting corporate environmental and energy executives.
The recently-completed $42 million Riverside Renewable Energy project ...
Renewable Energy Is No Longer a Pipe Dream
In October 2011, the global population reached seven billion. It is on its way to more than nine billion, and it took ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Va. Offshore Wind, 'Big Oil' Repeal Fails, Germany Cuts Solar Tariffs
Virginia has approved a plan for the installation of a single 5 (MW) wind turbine off its coast. If it clears federal approval, construction of ...
SAP Sustainability Report: GHGs Up 8%, But Down 6% Relative to Sales
Software corporation SAP emitted eight percent more greenhouse gases in 2011 than 2010, its first year-on-year rise in such emissions since 2007, but its emissions ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETS
New bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure ...
Renewables Briefing: Sainsbury's 6.9MW Solar PV, RGS Energy Capital, Wells Fargo, Navy Biojet Fuel
British supermarket chain Sainsbury's has installed 6.9 MW solar PV systems on store rooftops in the south of England. The series of 115 projects, completed ...
Jail Gets Microgrid Powered by Wind, Solar, Fuel Cell
The Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif., recently teamed up with Chevron Energy Solutions to create its own microgrid, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The ...
Latin America’s Largest Wind Farm to Power Coke, Heineken Production
Heineken beer and Coca-Cola are among the products that look set to be produced using power from Latin America's largest wind energy project.
Danish turbine producer ...
SCA Sustainability Goals: 5 TWh Wind by 2020, Tripling of Biofuel Production
SCA, the world's third-largest paper company, is aiming to produce 5 TWh of windpower on its forest land by 2020, according to the firm's latest ...
