June 3rd, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Republican chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, Doc Hastings (R-WA), and a host of big-name renewable energy leaders spoke up this week on the need for the Obama administration to fast-track renewable energy projects (i.e. not make them go through years of bureaucratic red tape). As I've written a number of times before, the Obama administration has sped up the offshore wind power process and the process for utility-scale solar on public lands, but much more could still be done
May 25th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
I was in Germany a little more than a week ago and can tell you from what I saw that Germany (or, at least, Northeast Germany) is a wind turbine paradise. Wind turbines are everywhere it seems (between cities that is).
Germany is the clear wind power leader in Europe with 27,214 MW of installed wind power capacity. (Spain is second with 20,676 MW installed.)
But, even in Germany, wind power could benefit from a better transmission network. Of course, German leaders recognize that and are doing something about it -- they are planning to build a wind energy superhighway
May 25th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
A report this month from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), Offshore Proof, delves into the challenges of offshore wind power, its shortcomings to date, and its potentially bright future. While the report finds that the "offshore wind power industry has some way to go to prove it can take its place as a sustainable part of the energy mix," 75% of experts in the field project that it will be an important part of the mix in the next 20 years and about 60% believe that it will be economically competitive within 15 years
April 22nd, 2011 | by Glenn Meyers
As reported by EcoFriend, this project will certainly “be a big step forward, especially in view of the goal set by EU - to get 13 percent of total power from renewable sources by 2020.”
March 25th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has found that while traditional offshore wind turbines using a horizontal axis design are a good energy source in many locations now, vertical axis offshore turbines may be even better
February 23rd, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Floating wind turbines really seem to grab our attention. I imagine this is for three reasons: 1) they break [&hellip
