UK-based Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has disclosed its plans to develop the world’s largest indoor infrastructure capable of deploying and testing next-generation offshore wind turbines. The test-rig will allow turbines to be examined onshore and indoors before being taken offshore, which will help to lower electricity costs and decrease technical risks associated with mass production. In addition to providing lower overhead costs, the initiative…

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…

Green Energy Technologies has installed its first fully operational commercial-scale WindCube in a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning on the roof of the new Crown Battery Renewable Energy Center in Port Clinton’s Lake Erie Business Park. The preliminary testing for the site has determined that winds traveling at about 14 mph could support about 150,000 kWh of generated renewable energy each year; helping to counterbalance the center’s energy utilization…

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…