Alternative Energy – Green Energy News

VisionAIR3: Heralding a Revolution in Wind Turbines?

In the last few days, the official debut of a new vertical axis micro wind turbine was launched. It’s a new addition to the UGE (formerly… Read the rest..

The Future Cost of Windpower: New Research Published online

MarketReportsOnline have made available a major report on the cost of wind power energy, then, now and in the future. It is available here: http://www.marketreportsonline.com/395631.html. The… Read the rest..

Shock! Horror! UK Wind Turbines are sometimes Powered by the Grid!

In a series of articles in certain areas of the UK media (essentially the usual anti-wind Not in My Back Yard suspects) it has been “revealed”… Read the rest..

Brazil Should Add More Wind Power to Hydro Power

There can be no doubt that Brazil has done a great job in moving away from those contaminating fossil fuels. As an example, in 2009 Brazil… Read the rest..

Germany Leads the Way in Wind and Solar Power

Does wind power generated energy make financial sense?

Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and nearly a third of its electric power comes from renewable energy. That fraction is increasing… Indeed it is now… Read the rest..

Rockefellers Abandon Oil, Gas and Coal in Favour of Cleaner Energy

In a move that is likely to have massive (positive) ramifications, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, built with profits from their great-grandfather’s Standard Oil Co., is selling… Read the rest..

Siemens win Big Dutch Offshore Contract

Siemens has just clinched a deal with the Dutch Offshore Wind consortium called the Gemini Project. The contracts are for the construction, financing, and operations in… Read the rest..

Farmers for Wind

I have seen many an article supposedly penned by a farmer that rails against the installation of onshore wind turbines on their land. When you do… Read the rest..

Two Years idle for a Wind Turbine in Portsmouth, Hampshire

People in Portsmouth are angry. Portsmouth is the historic South coast of England town where Sir Francis Drake finished a game of bowls before setting off… Read the rest..

Renewable Energy Islands

While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, some islands dotted around the globe are doing their… Read the rest..