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Energy Prices Drop Below Zero in the UK

Baillie Wind Farm, Scotland (Statkraft/Flickr)

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Reprinted with permission from Ecowatch’s December 19, 2024 blog at https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-prices-below-zero-uk-wind-power.html

Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain’s power prices below zero.

Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high […]

Offshore Wind Projects on the East Coast

Wind turbine components ready to load onto a ship. (Sunrise Wind and Ørsted)

George Harvey

For a long time, it looked like offshore wind power in the United States had got stuck in the doldrums. The Block Island wind project went into operation in 2016, with five turbines of 6 megawatts […]

Fake Wind-Power News

safe & clean

Martin Wahl

In the June issue we explored the section of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law (April report) “Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles” that dealt with solar energy. Here we are going to look at fake news claims and […]

SUN DAY Campaign News

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) have dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions in the first nine months of 2020.

Combined, they accounted for nearly two-thirds ( 64.1%) […]

Dairy Air Wind Farm

Vermont’s last hope, for now

This photo simulation shows the proposed Dairy Air Wind turbine from the Holland Congregational Church at 693 Gore Road in Holland, VT, 1.8 miles away. Photo credit: VERA Renewables.

By George Harvey

Holland, Vermont, a rural community on the Canadian border, is the home of the […]

Wind Power on the Farm

Image: Pixabay.com

By George Harvey

Yale Climate Connections, which refers to itself as “a nonpartisan, multimedia service,” produced a recent video, “Wind Turbines Supporting Rural Economies, Keeping Young People in Agriculture” (). It looks at how local people have responded to wind turbines in the two Michigan areas with the greatest […]

We Are in Trouble

Museum specimin ( Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons)

By George Harvey

From an environment point of view, we are in serious trouble. Most people are entirely unaware of how bad things are.

Studies published in 2015 gave a peek into the situation. That year, the Royal Society for the Protection of […]

GM’s 100% Wind Powered Manufacturing Plants

Building GM’s 100% Electric Cars

Photo courtesy of Starwood Energy Group.

By George Harvey

Two recent announcements from General Motors (GM) have created quite a lot of talk. Both shed light on renewable power, but they were very different in their natures. One was about manufacturing, and the other about products.

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Roadmaps to Slow Climate Change and Eliminate Air Pollution

By George Harvey

In May of 2015, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University published a paper, “100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States.” It proposed a set of roadmaps to eliminating of our use of fossil fuels, […]

Windmills are Beautiful

Lindsay Miller at the Sheffield wind farm in Sheffield, VT. Courtesy photo.

By Lindsay Miller

From the Publisher: The G.E.T. team is happy to introduce Lindsay Miller as one of our newest advertising sales representatives. Lindsay comes to G.E.T. with a strong communications and sales background. Lindsay received her Bachelor’s degree in communications […]