People interested in reducing their carbon footprint, along with their monthly energy costs, have an array of options to consider. One of them is wind power. If you've narrowed down your options and ...

Wind power technology in 2025 pushed well beyond incremental upgrades, with engineers rethinking how, where, and even what ...

Wind energy infrastructure doesn’t produce power if the air isn’t moving, and solar doesn’t generate power if the sun’s not out. But that doesn’t mean that either source of energy is "worthless" ...

Harnessing the wind is nothing new. As far back as 200 BC China used simple windmills to pump water, and by the 17th century the Dutch were using wind power to reclaim thousands of acres of land by ...

The Sustainably Co-locating Agricultural and Photovoltaic Electricity Systems (SCAPES) project, led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

The sun sets behind wind turbines in the countryside east of Victor, Iowa, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The wind turbines are part of MidAmerican's Diamond Trail Wind Energy project in Iowa County.

Solar panels and wind turbines give the world bountiful energy — but come with a conundrum. When it’s sunny and windy out, in many places these renewables produce more electricity than is actually ...

After retirement, wind turbine components are typically recycled or placed in a landfill. The materials making up turbine blades are more difficult to recycle, posing a problem for sustainable ...

Approvals for new wind energy projects in federal lands and waters are temporarily halted in the U.S. That's after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the pause. The order may also ...

President Donald Trump has made his wind power aversion well known. On at least five separate occasions recently, he called ...