A&M engineer floats plan to harness offshore wind power
For most of the country, the greatest potential for wind energy lies offshore. Developers are pushing ahead with projects on the East Coast and elsewhere despite environmental concerns about fishing...
View ArticleAmericans want more wind, less costs
Americans overwhelmingly want more wind energy, but projects that could make that happen have been mired in controversy and concern, experts said at a Houston conference on Tuesday.
View ArticleCongress weighs future of wind energy tax credit
Wind energy advocates on Wednesday pleaded with Congress to renew a tax break they credit with sending turbines spinning across the United States, amid opposition from critics who insist the industry...
View ArticleFracturing firm files for bankruptcy protection
Green Field Energy Services, which uses natural gas to run its hydraulic fracturing equipment, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday.
View ArticleUS to allow eagle deaths, to aid wind power
The Obama administration said Friday it will allow some companies to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty, an effort to spur development and investment in green...
View ArticleWind farm eagle deaths overestimated, company says
The developers of what could become the nation's largest wind energy project say the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has overestimated how many eagles could be killed by wind turbines at the site.
View ArticleSiemens to supply $2.6B US offshore wind plant
Siemens AG, Europe’s biggest engineering company, agreed to supply turbines to the $2.6 billion Cape Wind project, the first offshore wind farm planned in the U.S.
View ArticleMaryland mulls moratorium on wind turbines
Gov. Martin O'Malley says he still has misgivings about a bill to set a 13-month moratorium on the development of tall wind turbines within 56 miles of the U.S. Naval Air Station Patuxent River base in...
View ArticleStealthy warship getting jet fuel to prep for high-tech power system
Bath Iron Works is getting ready to bring fuel aboard the Navy's biggest destroyer in preparation for firing up some of the world's largest marine turbines this summer.
View ArticleLawsuit: Siemens $6.5B price for Dresser-Rand too low
A shareholder of Dresser-Rand Group says in a lawsuit the Houston compressor and turbine maker is worth more than the $6.5 billion that Siemens AG is planning to pay for it.
View Article80k acres off Long Island coast dedicated for wind energy
ederal officials say more than 81,000 acres off the coast of Long island will be dedicated for the development of commercial wind energy.
View ArticleUS OKs offshore wind research facility off Virginia’s coast
The decision clears the way for the construction of two 6-megawatt turbines 27 miles off Virginia Beach on the outer continental shelf, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Ross Hopper...
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