The Vermont utility building a 21 wind turbines commercial wind farm on Lowell Mountain says it’s going to conserve 2,700 acres as a way to compensate for the wind power project.

With the cost of solar energy modules plummeting by 76% in just three years experts say the key to widespread adoption will depend less on price and more on improved awareness of the potential of the technology.

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) announced the completion of four high-efficiency solar power systems, totaling 3.8 megawatts, at public water agencies and water treatment facilities in California.

Chinese wind power maker Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Company has completed a 49.5-megawatt wind farm in Yunnan province.

Vestas has received two wind power orders from EDF Energies Nouvelles for delivery of 19 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for the Gargano wind farm in Apulia (Italy), and for 12 V90-2.0 MW for the Eckolstädt wind farm.

Thanks to the wonder of the modern Internet, old myths about wind power rarely die–they just go on circulating in the anti-windosphere forever.

Increase of two-thirds in electricity from offshore wind power in first three quarters of 2011. The latest figures on the amount of electricity generated by wind turbines have been welcomed by RenewableUK

EGP-NA owns and operates more than 70 plants with an installed capacity exceeding 1,000 MW powered by renewable hydropower, wind energy, geothermal energy, solar power and biomass energy.

Over at The Independent, Alasdair Fotheringham has written a lovely article on Andasol, the world?s largest concentrating solar thermal power plant.

There will be 84 Mitsubishi 2.4-megawatt wind turbines and 87 Siemens 2.7-megawatt wind turbines in the wind energy plant.

Reliability is the greatest weakness of solar energy. Concentrating solar thermal plant developers have plans to build facilities in Inland Southern California to store the sun?s power.

The provincial government had also asked the power ministry to advice the AEDB officials to prepare land allocation parcels out of the identified land which might be offered to the wind power projects.

Vestas has received a wind power order from renewable energy projects developer VSB Energies Nouvelles to supply wind turbines with a total capacity of 24 MW for a wind farm.

Pyrus Energy, of Weedsport, is a two-year-old company specializing in all types of renewable energy sources, from solar power and wind power to geothermal energy and solar thermal hot water and hydroelectric

Seven top wind enerrgy manufacturers including Vestas (Denmark), Nordex (Germany), Siemens (Germany), General Electric (USA), Hyundai (Korea), Goldwind (China) and Sunec (China) are offering wind turbines.

Acciona has installed 283 wind power farms (8,392 MW); 80 hydroelectric power plants (912 MW); 5 Concentrated Solar Power plants (264 MW) and one of the biggest photovoltaic solar energy plants in the world (46 MWp).

Acciona Windpower will install two of its AW-3000/116 3 MW wind turbines this year at the Pioneer Grove wind farm in Cedar County, Iowa.