Whether you’re building a house or adding on to an older home, there are various factors to consider when calculating the cost ...

New York state officials have recently installed a 7 foot diameter wind turbine atop the Corning Tower, which is Albany’s tallest building at 41 stories. This new addition to the building can provide up to 1.5 kilowatts of electricity, which is less than one tenth of one percent of the energy that the occupants of the building use.

The purpose of this new turbine was not to offset the electricity demand of the building, say city officials, but instead to test feasibility of future wind energy programs in urban areas. ...

The United States was recently named the top producer of wind energy in 2008. This is due in much part to the great increase in wind energy capacity discussed previously. The United State’s wind energy capacity increased 50 percent in 2008, up to over 25 gigawatts.

Germany was the top producer of wind energy until the United States took over the spot ...

The newly installed 8,358 megawatts is enough to power over 2 million homes. It is also worthy to note that with just the new additions to wind energy in 2008, over 44 million tons of carbon emissions are not being emitted into ...

The recent economic stimulus passed by the House on Wednesday includes modernizing the nation’s electricity grid. The bill includes $11 billion to finance 3,000 miles of transmission lines to transport renewable energy. Renewable energy locations tend to be in lesser populated areas where large wind farms or solar farms can be built. Therefore, it is important to be able to transport the energy produced to nearby and larger cities for use.

The $11 billion dollars will ...

A project entitled Cape Wind is hoping to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. The location selected is near the coast of Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts. The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was recently released and signals that the project is approved as far as environmental concerns go. However, the project still must go through a 30 day comment and review period, which is standard. Once the review period is complete, the Department of the Interior will have the final say as to whether the project can begin plans for construction. Keep in mind that the Department of the Interior will be deciding on approval under a brand new (hopefully) environmentally-friendly ...