Towns look to ride wind power (Albany Times Union)
GREENFIELD ? Town supervisor Dick Rowland wants to make his town the first in Saratoga County to boast wind turbines, and local officials are working to get new laws in place to facilitate wind farm development.Town officials formed a Wind Power Advisory Committee last year to help study local laws and promote the possibilities of wind power in the town. Airtricity, a renewable energy company, ...
Capacitor maker Lelon cuts into wind power market (Digi Times)
Aluminum electrolytic capacitor maker Lelon Electronics has cut into the wind power market, having received orders from one wind power system maker totaling NT$70-80 million (US$2.12-2.42 million) for 2009.
Financial meltdown slowing wind-power boom (AG Weekly)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Grain farmer Mike Doyle has grown to love the big, spindly wind turbines that rise from his central Illinois prairie. Their blades, many more than 100 feet, cut the wind with a low, rhythmic whooshing noise. Not too long ago, he admired a rainbow arching over them.
It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power (ZDNet)
Why focus on development around just one major fuel source, oil, when you can reap the benefits of two? Steamy Houston is beginning a new love affair with one of the most powerful companies in the wind-power industry, Vestas, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines. The company has decided to base its new U.S. research center in the city, citing access to Rice and Texas A&M universities as ...
Kansas tribe to build wind turbines just south of Richardson County (Lincoln Journal Star)
The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska plans to build three wind turbines to power its casino and two other buildings in White Cloud, Kan. The tribe owns land in both states but none of the energy will flow to tribal members in Nebraska, at least for now, said vice chairman Alan Kelley.
Nigeria: MAN Builds 30 Megawatt Wind Power (AllAfrica.com)
A Power Plant is being constructed for manufacturing industries in Kano State.Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), who is behind the project, said the wind mill when completed will transmit and distribute electricity to industries in Bompai and other industrial axis in the state.
