How Utilities Stall Progress on Alternative Energy
A new report from the Environmental Working Group claims that Duke Energy, the nation's largest utility, is holding back the transition away from fossil fuels.
Wind Power
Wind and Solar Could Meet 80 Percent of Americans' Energy Needs
But getting there will require investment in better energy storage technologies.
The Winds of Uruguay
The windswept South American country has become a world leader in wind energy in less than a decade.
A Mathematical Model to Predict How Many Eagles Wind Farms Will Kill
The model is part of the United States' developing efforts to regulate the wind-energy industry.
The Connection Between Coal and Politics in Wyoming
In Wyoming, where Philip Anschutz is currently building the largest wind farm in the world, coal, which is cheap and plentiful, is the answer to just about everything.
How a Conservative Billionaire Is Moving Heaven and Earth to Become the Biggest Alternative Energy Giant in the Country
Philip Anschutz wants to turn his 500-square-mile cattle ranch into the world’s largest wind farm. The project would generate four times more electricity than the Hoover Dam, enough to power all of the households in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It would also make Anschutz the nation’s most unlikely environmental hero—if he can ever get the thing built.
Tilting at Windmills
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
Windmills: 600,000, Bats: 0. Time for a New Game?
A new study estimates that at least 600,000 bats died last year in the Lower 48 from wind turbines.
Wind and Other Renewable Energies Aren't Impractical or Unreliable
Wind and solar remain small components of the U.S. energy portfolio, but two new data points out this week suggest they're starting to to hit their stride.
How Marine Spatial Planning Calms Choppy Waters
Getting everyone with a vested interest onboard early, rather than making others adjust to a new obstacle at sea, provides benefits for all involved.
Consistency Key to Renewable Energy Policy
A new report on funding renewable energy projects offers a primer on how policy decisions are best engineered to boost the industry.
Clean Energy Leadership Gains in Rust Belt States
Index of Clean Energy Leadership finds Midwestern upstarts mixed among the usual suspects.
Wind Farm Opposition - Noise Complaints
The health effects from wind turbine noise tell us interesting things about the way we hear things.
Clean Energy and the U.S. Handicap: One Man's Story
On-again, off-again federal support cripples emerging industries in the United States, America's pre-eminent wind energy pioneer believes.
Locally Owned Wind Power: Quaint it Ain't
The financial crisis is a blessing in disguise for community wind power, an underserved sector of the burgeoning U.S. wind industry. And turbines are giving old farms a second wind.
Balancing the Power of Offshore Wind
Fears that wind only provides power when it's blowing outside could be neutralized by drawing from a wide area — like the U.S. Atlantic coast.
Physics Nobelist Predicts ‘Real Revolution’ in Power
Nobel laureate Walter Kohn is bullish on renewable energy but sees the answer to global energy woes as population stabilization through the education of women.
Let's Get Wind Power Off the Ground
A new crop of entrepreneurs believes that wind power can and should take to the skies — literally.
Picking on Pickens’ Plan
The fossil-fueled portions of T. Boone Pickens' energy plan for the U.S. have had a rough ride.
Small Wind, Big Business
The 2007 Farm Bill suggests tax credits as one way to offset the cost — as great as the environmental benefits — of small wind projects.
Going With the Wind
The United States remains on the low end of countries using energy powered by wind. Experts point to tax credits as a factor in efforts to establish wind as an energy source.