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Showing posts with label wind power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wind power. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

U.S. grid needs operators to plan now with a blend of energies including batteries, gas and coal

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North American Electric Reliability Corporation graph Fueled by increased demand and shrinking power options, the U.S. electricity grid is h...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Wind farm projects are 'teetering on the brink,' despite soaring electricity demand

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Wind power is being blown over by opposition from local residents, who don't like the look of turbines, and the Trump administration, wh...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Opinion: As the Trump administration puts the brakes on clean energy support, many rural farmers will feel the loss

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Solar panels can help cut energy costs for farm operations like dairies.   (Photo by S. Patrick, Portland Herald, Getty via T...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Renewables helped some states breeze through this summer's punishing heat and energy demands

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Renewable energy has helped some states meet or exceed energy needs. (Adobe Stock photo) This summer's extreme heat forced energy operat...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

'On the Front Porch' conversation will explore rural clean energy transitions and how communities can benefit

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Tony Pipa and Sarah Mills will discuss energy transitions in rural America. (Brookings photos) "On the Front Porch" host Tony Pipa...
Friday, August 30, 2024

In a first, the Conservative Energy Network hosts a national conference to promote 'eco-right' agenda

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Participants at this year's Conservative Energy Summit. (CEN photo via USA Today) These "going green" supporters aren't to...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

When smartly planned, windfarms can be adaptable, efficient and incorporate crops, a new study says

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Wind turbines take up only 5% of the land. (Adobe Stock photo) Instead of hogging up large expanses of usable land, wind farms can "gro...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Winter is almost here and many states have power grids unprepared for extreme weather, new report warns

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Dusk in rural Maine. The state faced rolling power outages last December. (Photo by Andrew Dickinson, The Washington Post) Winter is coming ...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

America's shift to wind, solar and other clean energy has gained surprising momentum, even in fossil-energy areas

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NYT graph based on The Energy Institute’s  2023 Statistical Review of World Energy U.S. energy trends show the winds of change are blowing a...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

As 1st U.S. offshore wind farm rises near Martha's Vineyard, Ocean City, N.J., may lead the way to blocking others

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Rising "monopile" foundations of three planned Vineyard Wind offshore turbines are visible in the distance from the company's...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Sun and wind power surpass coal; it's a first for the two renewables combined without adding hydropower

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Solar panels in a California desert at sunset. (Photo by thinkreaction/Getty Images via E&E) For the first time, solar and wind have gen...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

As wind and solar projects are proposed in more populated rural areas, they hit more opposition; Kansas is an example

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Wind turbines dot the landscape in Waverly, Kansas. (Photo by Dominick Williams, The Wall Street Journal) Many people like the idea of gree...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Wind-turbine lights have ruined some rural night sky views; states have moved to regulate, but changes may be slow

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Red lights on wind turbines flash against an overcast sky. (Photo by Evert Nelson, The Topeka Capital-Journal) Rural residents living near ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

As offshore wind sails forward, fish habitats will suffer, and fishers fear getting 'squeezed out' of their livelihoods

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A construction area for Vineyard Wind in New Bedford, Mass. (Photo by Tony Luong, ProPublica) Corporations seeking approval f...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

TransWest Express line approved, clearing way for largest onshore U.S. wind farm; power will travel across four states

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Map of planned transmission line route via BasinAndRangeWatch.org ; for a larger version, click on it. "After a nearly two-decades-long...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Electricity from renewables exceeded that from coal in 2022

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Wind turbiunes near Palm Springs, California (File photo by Ashley Landis, The Associated Press ) The U.S. Energy Information Administration...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Despite its long history as a leader in fossil fuels, the Lone Star State leads the nation in renewable-energy production

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Chart by Paul Horn, ICN , from Energy Information Admin. data Some people say "Everything is bigger in Texas," and that sentiment...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Texans block Chinese billionaire's wind farm, citing security; 18 states mulling limits on foreign farmland ownership

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Sun Guangxin ( Photo by Zhang shi, Imaginechina) Before curious rural Montanans reported a glowing orb high in the sky and the Chinese spy b...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Some rural Americans push back on wind energy; land is meant for 'cattle and corn, not turbines and transformers'

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A wind farm by corn fields near Latimer, Iowa  ( Reuters photo by Jonathan Ernst) In 1941, the first modern wind turbine was built in Cast...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Wind farms bring windfalls to rural areas, but not everyone agrees that the massive structures are a positive thing

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Screenshot of  interactive map  from the Wind Turbine Database of the  U.S. Geological Survey ; its display can be filtered by tower height,...