Europe's investments in offshore wind have fueled better technology, more competition and cheaper capital for new projects. That's driven down the cost of offshore power and now the US is capitalizing on the savings.
Scotland plans to harness its high wind concentration as a renewable energy source with wind turbines. Wind turbines have often been criticized as ugly and loud, but now they're being called potentially harmful to the environment. That's because wind turbines have been releasing carbon stored in peat bogs into Scotland's atmosphere.
A desire to build a massive windfarm off the Atlantic Coast of the United States has the Obama administration moving to lighten the regulatory hurdles, seeking to get the project moving forward more quickly.
A new documentary chronicles the ten-year battle over a massive windfarm in Nantucket Sound, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Nantucket Sound offshore wind farm approved by federal government -- what this means for the future of wind power in the U.S.
On Thursday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the federal government would green light construction of Cape Wind, the nation's first off shore wind farm. The project has polarized Nantucket residents.
U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar will decide whether or not to build an offshore wind farm off of Nantucket Sound. Opponents of the project are threatening to sue if it is approved.
Amy Myers Jaffe, associate director of the Rice University Energy Program, joins The Takeaway to talk about how much of an impact offshore wind-turbines will could have on how we produce and consume energy.
At 80 years old, a Texas oil billionaire hears the answer in the wind.
An Alaskan Congressman has introduced an amendment to a Congressional budget bill that would threaten the nation's first major offshore wind farm project.