Optiwind

To all of our friends and supporters, the Optiwind "family" would like to say a profound thank you. Optiwind's investors closed the company in February, but the dream of low cost, on-site, renewable wind power remains alive and well. The employees have now scattered (yes, to the wind) , but we will be watching as others will most certainly take up this worthy challenge again down the road. May the wind always be at your backs....

Best quote from this article... "in most areas, utilities are buying wind power because they want to, not because they have to."

U.S. Wind Power Accounted for 6% of Generation Capacity in 2012 U.S. wind power accounted for 6 percent of the nation’s total electricity generation capacity after developers rushed to finish projects before expiration of a subsidy, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.

For farmers struggling with prolonged drought, income from wind turbine leases is proving to be a life saver...

Drought-Stricken Farms Have 1 Lifeline — Wind Power by Bob Dean of NRDC The killing of Billy the Kid was still within living memory for some on the stark, wind-swept prairie outside Ft. Sumner, N.M., when Powhatan Carter's grandfather settled there to raise cattle in 1937. Twelve years later, Pow was born there, where he runs the family catt...

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/08/08/u-s-wind-power-now-equals-11-nuke-plants-study/

U.S. wind power now equals 11 nuke plants: study Energy generated by wind turbines in the U.S. is now equivalent to that of 11 nuclear power plants, according to an industry study.

Hats off to the Indians for trying out this novel wind turbine technology at their ballpark in Cleveland. As mentioned in the article, it's a distant cousin to Optiwind's technology and we wish them well. It's nice to see acceptance of new thinking in wind energy.

Corkscrew wind turbine brings juice to Indians stadium A quirky helix-shaped wind turbine is an experiment in boosting wind speed to make wind energy viable in low-wind locations, such as cities and suburbs. Read this blog post by Martin LaMonica on Cutting Edge.

Dear Sergey and Larry, if you still want the answer to onsite, Enterprise scale clean energy, give us a call!

Google's Search for Clean Energy - Technology Review The Internet giant thought it could help invent cheap renewable power. That wasn't so easy.

Every year for many decades now, the US Congress has given tens of billions in subsidies to oil, gas and coal companies. The energy playing field is incredibily slanted towards fossil fuels thanks to their lobbies, but now some brave companies are standing up to this. Please read this and then go out and support these brands!

Starbucks, Nike, Yahoo Tell Congress To Renew Key Wind Power Tax Credit - Forbes   Image by Getty Images AsiaPac via At any moment Congress will decide whether to extend the production tax credit (PTC), which gives wind power producers a 2.2 cent tax credit for every kilowatt hour of power they produce. Among those urging extension are some of America’s biggest bra...

An excellent Op-Ed in today's Hartford Courant about how to improve the Grid in one of the most expensive states in the country. Idea #1 more renewables. Idea #2 more distributed power. Count us in.

The Power Of A Grass-Roots Grid Now that Connecticut's electrical power has been fully restored, the typical governmental responses are kicking in: point fingers, hold hearings and propose changes to existing practices. And, as is also typical, the discussions will take place within a distinct silo of a single issue. In this case,...

Mother Nature has been busy in Connecticut this week, but we're happy to report that the turbine has passed both the Seismic and Hurricane tests thrown at it this week! Thank you to our world class Engineering and Manufacturing teams!!

One more piece of the NIMBY argument gets blown away...

Wind farms become tourist attractions | Michigan Messenger Opponents of a Duke Energy proposal to place 112 wind turbines near the lakeshore in Benzie and Manistee Counties argue that it will hurt the local