• Iowa Power Fund helps Iowa State establish Wind Energy … – PhysOrg.com

September 11, 2009
- Interesting article about building a giant wind generator

• Northern Power Systems Launches Canadian Wind Business – Reuters

September 11, 2009
- Northwind seems to be a company with lot of wind in their sails

• Wind power comes to Pittsfield – Central Maine Morning Sentinel

September 11, 2009
- This is an article about how Pittsfield got a Bergey 10-kilowatt wind turbine


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Electricity and the sources of electricity is a hot topic today. We all understand that something must be done to increase the use of renewable energy solutions.

What is it like today in the United States? What are the main sources for power? (more…)

What would you say if your neighbor mentioned she was going to build a mini wind turbine? Surprised? To be honest, it is not hard to build such wind generators and homeowners over the country are going for the challenge to make their own electricity. Naturally this is one way to utilize renewable energy.  (more…)

This is an interesting video about the construction of one of Europe’s largest offshore wind power parks. It’s called “Princes Amalia” or Q7 for short. It’s built off the coast of The Netherlands near the town of IJmuiden. The capacity of the wind farm is 120 MW and consist 60 turbines producing  2MW each. (more…)

Wind power cost is naturally all depending on the size of the project. Wind farms and gigantic windmills are huge investments and that is not what we are talking about here. What is the cost then for a small domestic wind generation system? (more…)

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When we are talking about how to build wind turbine blades, this picture might not be relevant. We have to start with something a bit smaller. (more…)

Windmill power for homes is actually not anything new. Maybe the angle of generating electricity is new but the use of windmills is very old. However we have not that much help of the old technique today.

Most of us considering the use of wind power naturally think about paying a couple of thousand for a complete windmill system. There are a lot of advantages in doing that if you can afford it. You could be up and running with green energy in literally hours. (more…)

Using residential wind power to fuel your home is a great alternative to using the existing power companies. The problem is it is extremely expensive to buy a wind power system and have it installed. Prices for these starts at 3,000 dollars for small home wind generators. If you could learn to build, one at home using common materials you can buy from any hardware store that would change things a bit wouldn’t it? (more…)