Read the full story from Midwest Energy News. A state board that approves wind farm siting is also considering new requirements related to building codes.
Category: Wind
Don’t set it and forget it — scan it and fix it with tech that detects wind blade damage
Read the full story from Sandia National Laboratory. Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanning technology could help wind blades stay in service longer,
Study: Wind farms don’t appear to impact a county’s aggregate rural home values
Read the full story in the Hutchinson News. A study examining the impact on property values where commercial wind farms have gone up in Kansas
Four states account for more than half of U.S. wind electricity generation
Read the full story from the Energy Information Administration. In the United States, producers generated 275 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity from wind power in
A radical idea to get a high-renewable electric grid: Build way more solar and wind than needed
Read the full story in GreenBiz. Famous inventor Edwin Land said, “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
Wind energy may flow to Maryville in future
Read the full story in the Edwardsville Intelligencer. If trustees agree, the village of Maryville may soon get its electricity at a lower cost from
