wind power industry

Discusses various facets of wind energy, including the technology of wind turbines and other components; grid integration, its economic viability in different markets; environmental impacts; and value in terms of reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

New England journalists Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb cover the heated controversy over an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound proposed by millionaire entrepreneur Jim Gordon and opposed by Cape Cod's elite.

Winds sweeping across the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind's promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, home to the Meridian Way Wind Farm, whose turbines are boosting farm incomes and bringing green jobs to the community.