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Residential wind turbines costing $500 to $700 have come of age, beating other renewable energy competition for the home market on price and efficiency.

The European Parliament has set a target of having 25% of their energy come from renewable energy by 2020. Of that 25%, half is planned to come from wind energy.

Europe is already well on their way to making this happen as well, with 5 countries (Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Germany) having more than 5% of their energy provided by wind farms. Currently there exists 80 GW of installed wind capacity in the EU, though only 3.5 GW of that is derived from wind farms built off-shore.

U.S. wind power is growing at a breath-taking pace. Representatives from top wind turbine manufacturers including GE Energy, Gamesa, Siemens and Vestas, discuss U.S. wind energy's future outlook.

Head of an energy-industry executive recruitment and human resources firm, Chris Swan is interviewed about a coming workforce crisis in the energy industry.

Fred Maas, President and CEO of Black Mountain Ranch LLC and Developer of Del Sur, an 1,800-acre "green" residential community in San Diego, Calif.,praised Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), John Ensign (R-NV) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for introducing the "Clean Energy Stimulus Act." The Act extends expiring tax credits for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The renewable energy tax credits were slipped into a housing bill that that did not end up looking the way its lead author, Sen. Chris Dodd really intended it to, remarking earlier in the week that it was “a housing bill, not a Christmas tree.”

However, will the production tax credit and investment tax credit ever make it to the President’s desk to sign?

Senator John Ensign (R-NV) speaks at a press conference supporting tax credits aimed at incentivizing investment in renewable energy projects, touting the growing number of bipartisan cosponsors.

Teetering on the brink of passage

Renewable Energy tax packages always face trouble in the Senate, and this dates back to our first energy crises in the 1970s.

The US is not a small player in wind energy, but, to date, offshore wind farms have not been built. This is soon to end however with plans for offshore sites in Delaware, Massachusetts and Texas. And California? It may soon follow.

UPC Wind marks the one-year anniversary of commercial operations for Mars Hill Wind in Maine.

The Selsam Superturbine is an offshore wind turbine concept that uses several small fast spinning rotors to create electricity rather than one large rotor, which is standard.

Nestled in the peaceful beach bordering countryside of southern Maine, you’ll find one of the most sustainable yarn companies on the planet. Unexpected, no?

General Electric is putting up new wind farms in Texas and Illinois that will power 70,000 homes and replace 526,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases with clean, renewable energy.

Venture capitalists and others push Congress to extend investment and production tax credits for renewable energy as a needed tool to continue investment in thesetechnologies and project as a means to boost the US economy.

Dan Reicher, Google.org, is interviewed at the WIREC conference about where Google's renewable energy programs launched last year will go this year.