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Wind energy 101 for MN towns in project alleys

Minnesota has nearly 125 wind farms. For people curious or skeptical about this longstanding renewable-energy source, local leaders and industry voices are engaging with residents, including a session ...

After nearly two decades, this massive New Mexico wind project is now powering California

One of the largest clean energy projects in United States history is now online, delivering electricity from a massive wind ...
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An inventor promised a bladeless wind device 30 times more efficient than tiny turbines and said it could power a village, and what independent tests later found is a quieter ...

The promise was electric. A wind generator with no blades, no gears, no spinning parts at all — just a thin ribbon trembling in the breeze, supposedly many times more efficient than the small turbines ...
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Work starts on Ireland’s first offshore wind park

22 August 2003 – GE Wind Energy and Airtricity report that construction is under way for the Arklow Bank offshore wind park, Ireland’s first offshore wind power project, and is expected to be ...

Windfarms on this Scottish isle are contentious – renewables must work for local people too

The landscape on the remote Isle of Lewis is striking: a mix of rugged terrain, peatlands, moorlands, lochs, sandy beaches ...