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"It sounded a load of rubbish" is how Grimsby port chief Martin Boyers remembers reacting to a plan to create a maintenance hub for new offshore wind farms in the depressed city. “I didn’t know anything about renewables."

Offshore wind projects breathe life into struggling UK ports

Environment

The UK’s big push into offshore wind power is bringing down the cost of the low-carbon energy sources, and bringing new life to some down-on-their-luck English ports.

Europe’s investment in offshore wind is paying off — for the US

Environment
Wind turbines Denmark

One of offshore wind power’s best hopes is fading on Lake Erie

Environment

Scotland’s wind turbines less eco-friendly than they appear

Environment

Obama administration tries to advance off-shore wind farm proposals

Environment

Cape Wind project gets green light

Environment

Nantucket Sound offshore wind farm approved by federal government — what this means for the future of wind power in the U.S.

Green Energy Milestone: Industry Says Wind is Spain’s Top Electricity Source

Business, Economics and Jobs

For the first time ever, wind power was the top source of electricity in Spain over the last three months. So says the country’s wind power association.

Cape Wind Spin

One filmmaker chronicles the ten-year battle over a massive windfarm in Nantucket Sound, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

Cape Wind Spin

A new documentary chronicles the ten-year battle over a massive windfarm in Nantucket Sound, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

The World

There’s a Strong Wind A-Blowin’

Living On Earth’s Jesse Wegman reports on the renaissance of wind power. In this past year alone U.S. wind farms have added a billion watts of generating capacity. And the Dept. of Energy recently pledged to increase the amount of electricity derived from wind by nearly fifty fold by the year 2020.