the wind farm in lompoc and cleaner energy

STATUS: In progress, with opposition

TYPE: Wind

OPPOSITION: Neighboring landowners; California Department of Fish and Game

PROSPECTS: Likely

BACKGROUND: Pacific Renewable Energy Generation, a unit of Spanish conglomerate Acciona S.A. (ANA.MC), wants to build an 83-megawatt wind farm on a coastal hillside in rural Lompoc, CA. The company signed a 20-year contract with PG&E Corp. (PCG) utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and won approval for the project from the Santa Barbara County …

By KEVIN WALKER Michigan Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich. — Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave the keynote address at this year’s wind energy conference and took the opportunity to announce over $15 million in new Recovery Act funding for the state to be directed towards renewable energy. “We are not just content in Michigan to be making wind turbines,” Granholm said at the Cobo Center, located in downtown Detroit. “Michigan is going to be the place to solve the problems for the wind industry.”

One problem she touched on was the …

NRG Energy Begins Construction On Second West Texas Wind Farm
File image. by Staff Writers Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 28, 2008 NRG Energy through its wholly owned subsidiary, Padoma Wind Power, has begun construction on the Elbow Creek Wind Project, a 122 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Howard County near Big Spring, Texas. “Adding Elbow Creek to NRG’s generation fleet increases our portfolio fuel diversity in …

By Sam Diedrich for the Kansas State University Collegian

Wind power could one day supply 100 percent of K-State’s electricity.

An exploratory proposal provided to the university’s administration and the KSU Foundation outlines plans for a medium-sized wind farm that could potentially supply all of the university’s electricity needs.

Ben Champion, director of sustainability, said the General Electric Co., one of the world’s …

Expanding their renewable energy portfolios, three global companies Google and subsidiaries of ITOCHU Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation (TYO-8053) have joined GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services and developer and managing member Caithness Energy as owners of the worlds largest wind farm, the 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat wind project under construction near Arlington, Oregon.

Google, ITOCHU Corporation subsidiary Tyr Energy and Sumitomo Corporation subsidiary Sumitomo Corporation of America are investing approximately $500 million in the $2 billion project. Additional …

A wind farm (often also called a wind park) is as a cluster of wind turbines that acts and is connected to the power system as a single electricity producing power station.

Generally it is expected that a wind farm consists of more than three wind turbines. Modern wind farms may have capacities in the order of hundreds of megawatts, and are installed offshore as well as on land. Modern wind farms generally are connected to the high voltage transmission system, in contrast to the early application of wind energy for electricity production with wind turbines …

You can find our opinion piece on the implications of the Coalition’s wind policy here.

MEDIA RELEASE Friends of the Earth

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

First test of Baillieu government’s wind farm policy

The Victorian Planning Department is holding special hearings today and Wednesday on a permit application for the proposed Chepstowe wind farm near Ballarat, after Planning Minister Matthew …

It will not only be the first of its kind in the United States, but the planned six-turbine offshore wind farm in Atlantic City, will be the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

This is what Fisherman’s Energy, a community-based offshore wind developer, general counsel Paul Gallagher told a large crowd Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14, at the Metropolitan Business and Citizens Association (MBCA) Winter Kick-Off Meeting, held at Resorts in Atlantic City.

Before Mayor Lorenzo Langford gave his brief, but traditional “unofficial” state of the city address (“as the …

Wind farm provides clean energy By Danny Bernardini/ DBernardini@TheReporter.com Posted: 02/27/2009

Kirk Garlick, Shiloh II Wind Project’s operations manager, stands beneath a wind turbine along Highway 12. (Rick Roach / The Reporter)

Standing beneath the towering wind turbines along …

The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council gave its approval of the site of a wind farm billed to be the largest in the world.

The Shepherd’s Flat Wind Farm, which would span Gilliam and Morrow counties in north-central Oregon, is proposed to have 303 wind turbines with a peak capacity of 909 megawatts — instantly doubling the state’s current wind-generated capacity of 889 megawatts, making it one of the largest wind farms in the country.

“This is a tremendous day for renewable energy in Oregon,” Michael Grainey, director of the Oregon Department of Energy, said in a news …