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National WInd Watch<p>Federal judge allows Green Oceans’ suit opposing Revolution Wind offshore wind project to advance <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RI</span></a>: U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has authorized the lawsuit seeking to stop the construction of giant, environmentally destructive wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts to move forward, the non-partisan, independent grassroots group Green Oceans said today. Revolution Wind, the project’s owner and an… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/04/03/federal-judge-allows-green-oceans-suit-opposing-revolution-wind-offshore-wind-project-to-advance/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/news/2025/04/03</span><span class="invisible">/federal-judge-allows-green-oceans-suit-opposing-revolution-wind-offshore-wind-project-to-advance/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>Researchers warn of the overlap between offshore wind farms and areas of high biodiversity <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ESP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESP</span></a>: A predictive model suggests that seabirds and marine mammals forage in the same areas where wind potential is most significant and that their populations may be at risk if wind farms are built there. This is one of the key findings of a study published in the Journal of Environmental Management, the result of a collaboration among researchers from the… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/04/03/researchers-warn-of-the-overlap-between-offshore-wind-farms-and-areas-of-high-biodiversity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/news/2025/04/03</span><span class="invisible">/researchers-warn-of-the-overlap-between-offshore-wind-farms-and-areas-of-high-biodiversity/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>Major Wisconsin wind power project generates controversy <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WI</span></a>: Bob Bishop’s family has lived and farmed in southwest Wisconsin for over 100 years. His father returned to the farm after fighting in World War II and eventually passed the tradition on to Bob, who along with his two sons is keeping the family business alive. But changing economic conditions forced an end to hog farming and made it increasingly difficult to eke out a living with row… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/04/03/major-wisconsin-wind-power-project-generates-controversy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/news/2025/04/03</span><span class="invisible">/major-wisconsin-wind-power-project-generates-controversy/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(archive: 2013) Dose-response relationships for wind turbine noise in Japan: ABSTRACT: In order to obtain a base for wind turbine noise policy, a socio-acoustic survey was carried out throughout Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa over three years (2010-2012). In total 747 responses were obtained with face-to-face interview method. The wind turbine noise was measured at several points in each site for successive five days. The LAeq,n, which was… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/dose-response-relationships-for-wind-turbine-noise-in-japan/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/documents/dose-</span><span class="invisible">response-relationships-for-wind-turbine-noise-in-japan/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@winderful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>winderful</span></a></span> </p><p>Amazing!</p><p>Nearly half of the UK's electrical demand is being met by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a> right now (see 👆)</p><p>Imagine what's possible if government really pushed to ramp up <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenPower</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnergyIndependenceIsGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyIndependenceIsGreen</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(archive: 2009) Wind energy farm erosion, McLean County, Ill. (photos) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IL</span></a>: Twin Groves Wind Farm, located mostly in McLean County east of Bloomington, Ill., currently has 240&nbsp;1.65-MW Vestas turbines. The second phase of 120 was completed early 2008. At least 240 more are planned by Horizon in this area to [create] one of the largest future wind farms in the US. According to Wikipedia: “McLean County boasts some of the richest soil in the world.… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-energy-farm-erosion-mclean-county-ill-photos/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/documents/wind-</span><span class="invisible">energy-farm-erosion-mclean-county-ill-photos/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
JRD3DUWe built an experiment: a <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/passivesolar?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#passivesolar</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/greenhouse?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greenhouse</a> with srawbales and a greenroof. .<br> .<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwback?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#throwback</a> #2011 involvement with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cida?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cida</a> in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/appropriatetechnology?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#appropriatetechnology</a><br> .<br> .<br> .<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GlobalDev?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalDev</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/development?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#development</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nonprofit?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonprofit</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sustainability?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wind?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wind</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/windenergy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#windenergy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photovoltaic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photovoltaic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/freeenergy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freeenergy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/greenmatters?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greenmatters</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gogreen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gogreen</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/renewableenergy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#renewableenergy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cleanenergy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cleanenergy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/windpower?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#windpower</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/savetheplanet?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#savetheplanet</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/funproject?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funproject</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/environment?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cleanenvironment?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cleanenvironment</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/doright?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doright</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/instagood?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#instagood</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/green?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#green</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pictureoftheday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pictureoftheday</a>
MediaFaro News Digest<p>How Finland has replaced coal power with wind in less than 10 years.</p><p>Power utility company Helen officially decommissioned its Salmisaari plant in Helsinki on 1 April, dropping coal to a less than 1% share of the country’s energy mix.</p><p>The closure of a coal power plant in Finland today brings the country to the brink of a full coal phase-out - four years ahead of schedule.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250401-how-finland-has-replaced-coal-power-with-wind-in-less-than-10-years?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250401</span><span class="invisible">-how-finland-has-replaced-coal-power-with-wind-in-less-than-10-years?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Helsinki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helsinki</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Salmisaari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Salmisaari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/EnergyMix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyMix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1960263/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1960263/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Charging Down – The American Prospect <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Apr2025Issue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apr2025Issue</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EmmaJanssen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmmaJanssen</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a>&amp;TheEnvironment <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InflationReductionAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InflationReductionAct</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SolarPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPower</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrumpTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTransition</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(archive: 2022) Wind and Solar—The Penetration Problem: The More You Do, The Harder It Gets: There seems to be a belief that increasing the level of wind and solar projects will make subsequent progress with these resources easier. Nothing could be further from the truth. Increasing penetration levels of wind and solar is like a Sisyphean task, except that it is worse. The challenge may be better understood as akin to pushing a huge rock which is… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-and-solar-the-penetration-problem-the-more-you-do-the-harder-it-gets/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/documents/wind-</span><span class="invisible">and-solar-the-penetration-problem-the-more-you-do-the-harder-it-gets/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(video archive) Construction of Xcel Energy’s Courtenay Wind Farm, North Dakota: Download video (52-MB MP4) 100 Vestas V100 2-MW turbines Nearly 25,000 acres (101 km²) 22 miles of access roads Substation transformer: 262,000 pounds Substation increases voltage for transmission lines 17.1-mile 115-kV overhead transmission line from collection substation to interconnect substation More than 150 miles of underground cable in 50 miles of trench Tower… <a href="https://wind-watch.org/doc/?p=4691" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wind-watch.org/doc/?p=4691</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(archive: 2012) Falmouth (Mass.) Board of Health Turbine Hearing, May 24, 2012 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MA</span></a>: 7:05 – Opening remarks by Board of Health: Gail Harkness called the meeting to order and read a prepared statement. 7:10 – Public comments: • Madeline Tundidor of 46 Brush Hill Circle stated that she works the 11-7 shift. The Webb turbine sounds like a fleet of planes going over her house. The whoosh, whoosh is constant. A neighbor of hers has moved because of the… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/falmouth-mass-board-of-health-turbine-hearing-may-24-2012/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/documents/falmo</span><span class="invisible">uth-mass-board-of-health-turbine-hearing-may-24-2012/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1955116/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1955116/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Oil Futures Rise on Crude, Gasoline, Distillates Draw Last Week <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BiodieselFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodieselFuel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BiodieselProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodieselProduction</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/corn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corn</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CornEthanol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CornEthanol</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrudeOil</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrudeOilPrice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DTN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DTN</span></a>/Ag/Fuels <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ethanol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethanol</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EthanolFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EthanolFuel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EthanolGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EthanolGas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EthanolPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EthanolPlant</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EthanolProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EthanolProduction</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilPrice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petroleum</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RenewableFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableFossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RenewableFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableFuels</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USWORLDNEWSNEWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USWORLDNEWSNEWS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WindPowerEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPowerEnergy</span></a></p>
Power Mix Ticker Germany<p>Renewable power share in Germany<br>29th of March 2025: 59%<br>Last 90 days average: 50%</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solarpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photovoltaik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photovoltaik</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windkraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windkraft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/erneuerbare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erneuerbare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energiewende" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energiewende</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(archive: 2013) Wind power costs in U.S. are six times higher than claimed <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>: Many U.S. special interests are misrepresenting wind power costs, including the wind industry, environmental groups, utility monopolies, independent system operators, educational and research institutions, and even federal and state governments. On September 24, Bill Ritter, the current director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University and… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-power-costs-in-u-s-are-six-times-higher-than-claimed/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/documents/wind-</span><span class="invisible">power-costs-in-u-s-are-six-times-higher-than-claimed/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>(video archive) Pala vjetroelektrana – pedeset metara čelika zgužvano poput papira [Fifty feet of steel crumpled like paper] <a href="https://wind-watch.org/news/?p=84894" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wind-watch.org/news/?p=84894</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@winderful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>winderful</span></a></span> </p><p>Wow!</p><p>62% of the UK power demand coming from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a> (see 👆)</p><p>Imagine what is possible with a concerted gov effort to move to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenEnergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>OPPD customer raises concerns about utility’s spending to curtail wind energy <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NE</span></a>: In the last five years, OPPD paid wind energy suppliers more than $17 million in compensable curtailments, which means power wasn’t being generated at the time. Throwing money into a fire pit. That’s what one OPPD customer, David Begley, feels the power company is doing. “That’s a failure to me,” said Begley. “You can just get some 20 dollar bills, throw them in and… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/03/29/oppd-customer-raises-concerns-about-utilitys-spending-to-curtail-wind-energy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/news/2025/03/29</span><span class="invisible">/oppd-customer-raises-concerns-about-utilitys-spending-to-curtail-wind-energy/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>Man was run over and killed by dump truck during construction of “Wind Parks of Ukraine”: [The accident in Transcarpathia occurred in September 2023, but the public was not informed about it.] На Закарпатті під час спорудження першого вітряка “Вітряних парків України” самоскид задавив чоловіка Попри те, що трагедія сталася ще у вересні 2023 року, ні влада, ні правоохоронці не повідомили про неї громадськість. Воловецький районний суд виніс вирок… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/03/29/man-was-run-over-and-killed-by-dump-truck-during-construction-of-wind-parks-of-ukraine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/news/2025/03/29</span><span class="invisible">/man-was-run-over-and-killed-by-dump-truck-during-construction-of-wind-parks-of-ukraine/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>
National WInd Watch<p>Excavator operator for “Wind Parks of Ukraine” convicted of destroying hundreds of trees in Privododilnyi nature reserve: [The driver of the excavator destroyed 240 trees worth UAH 2 million in the Privododilnyi reserve, Transcarpathia, to widen the road to transport equipment for the “Wind Parks of Ukraine”.] На Закарпатті засудили екскаваторника, який для “Вітряних парків України” знищив сотні дерев на території заказника “Привододільний” Водієві… <a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/03/29/excavator-operator-for-wind-parks-of-ukraine-convicted-of-destroying-hundreds-of-trees-in-privododilnyi-nature-reserve/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wind-watch.org/news/2025/03/29</span><span class="invisible">/excavator-operator-for-wind-parks-of-ukraine-convicted-of-destroying-hundreds-of-trees-in-privododilnyi-nature-reserve/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windpower</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windenergy</span></a></p>