Building a Community Wind Project: A Landowner’s Perspective

My family has been on our land for 77 years – my dad rented it, and eventually my brother David and I bought it along with some surrounding land. Besides farming, we’ve been in the commercial fertilizing and spraying business for 30 years and have spent many, many hours sitting around waiting... Read More

How to Improve Wind Energy Reliability with Cable Standards

When it comes to advancing technologies for alternative energy, there are many issues to consider. Read more here:  How to Improve Wind Energy Reliability with Cable Standards  Read More →

Hedging Against Wind Variability: A Risky Business?

Last May, renewable energy risk analysis company 3TIER and weather risk management outfit Galileo announced the launch of WindLock – a financial product designed to assist the wind power industry in hedging the financial risk of wind variability. So, how has the product been received by the industry... Read More

‘Which comes first: the wind farm or the turbine?’ – Wind Energy Update

While there will always be a trade-off between turbine performance losses and wind farm lay-out cost savings, the trick is knowing how to strike the right balance, says Wind Energy Update’s 2011 Offshore Wind Installation and Construction Report. View original here:  ‘Which comes first:... Read More

Industry Experts See German Nuclear Phaseout as a Wind Fall

Angela Merkel’s coalition government may not have looked at the nuclear power question for anything more than a “cover your behind” solution. Nonetheless, the wind industry sees last month’s decision to phase out Germany’s nuclear power generation industry by 2022 as –... Read More

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