Posts tagged: wind power

Wind Advocates Rally in Dallas

Houston may be working frantically to clean up the oil spill, but Dallas is focusing on a different kind of energy this week: wind.
The American Wind Energy Association is holding its annual conference here (“kind of a Woodstock for capitalists,” joked Cathy Zoi, an assistant secretary of energy), with a record 20,000 people in attendance. [...]

Monday May 24th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Disputed renewable power bill signed

Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday signed into law a bill that wind power developers and environmental groups had asked him to veto.
The bill, known as the Renewable Resource Credits bill, would allow energy generation produced from waste such as garbage to be classified as renewable and qualify that electricity for the state’s renewable power mandate.
The [...]

Thursday May 20th, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Western wind turbine makers fall behind in China

Tough’ green energy market may force some companies out in 5 years
Western wind turbine manufacturers are losing ground in China, the world’s fastest-growing green energy market.
The combined market share for companies such as General Electric and its European rivals, Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens, fell to 14 percent last year from 71 percent in 2005, [...]

Sunday May 16th, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »