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  • July 2011
    Britain Evaluates Capacity Payments for Back-Up Generators...

    Because wind does not blow all the time, wind power is an “intermittent” technology that needs other power as back-up to ensure...

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  • June 2011
    Is 80 Percent Renewable Energy by 2050...

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is forecasting that renewable energy could reach almost 80 percent globally by 2050 if the...

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  • May 2011
    Another Offshore Wind Project in Trouble

    Cape Wind, off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts is in trouble trying to find buyers for its high cost electricity. But...

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  • May 2011
    The Wind Experience

    According to the Global Wind Energy Council, the world now has 197 gigawatts of installed wind capacity with the largest amount in...

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  • March 2011
    Tilting at Turbines

    Our friends at Reason.TV interview IER Senior Fellow Robert Micheals on renewables and renewable subsidies. One small correction. The narrator states, “as...

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  • February 2011
    Greenpeace Still Tilting at Windmills in Spain

    Gabriel Calzada is Associate Professor of Economics at the King Juan Carlos University in Spain and Founder-President of the Instituto Juan de...

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