Wind farms are extremely lucrative when strategically placed in areas with high wind, but output still depends on varying factors such as terrain, turbine size and time of day. However, if the turbine were able to track wherever the wind may blow in any particular hour of the day, it would be more cost-effective and energy efficient than the standard stationary turbine. The Mobile Wind Turbine, created by…

Perdue University Extension renewable energy specialist, Chad Martin, explains the rewarding potential that wind power holds for rural farmers with land to spare, professing that commercial-scale wind farms present rural property-owners with the chance to gain residual income as well as produce clean, alternative energy. He considers the wind industry an once-in-a-lifetime break for the agricultural population…

The USDA has recently initiated an original renewable energy proposal, called the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which assists farmers, rural business owners and ranchers in purchasing small wind turbines or other renewable energy systems to sustain their locations. The grant paperwork is due July 31st, 2009, covers 25 percent of the entire installed cost of the small wind turbine system and, when used in accordance with the Federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC), can aid farmers in building small…

Today, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu publicized conditional loan guarantees offered by President Obama’s administration to support Beacon Power and Nordic Windpower, USA, totaling $59 million. Beacon Power, a power storage company, has been conditionally granted $43 million to sustain the construction of a 20 megawatt flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, NY which will help to deliver renewable energy dependably and securely…

The Cape Cod Commission, town of Barnstable and the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound have requested a superpermit for a proposed wind farm in offshore Massachusetts. The groups plead to the state’s highest court to repeal a judgment by the Energy Facilities Siting Board, who decided that nine regional permits…