enXco, Inc. announced today that it has closed on the project financing for Minnesota’s largest wind farm, the $385 million Fenton Wind Energy Project under construction in Murray and Nobles Counties, Minnesota, with its financial partners Union Bank of California and GE Energy Financial Services.
The project pushes the total US wind energy development portfolio for [...]

enXco, Inc. announced today that it has closed on the project financing for Minnesota’s largest wind farm, the $385 million Fenton Wind Energy Project under construction in Murray and Nobles Counties, Minnesota, with its financial partners Union Bank of California and GE Energy Financial Services.
The project pushes the total US wind energy development portfolio for [...]

Michigan is exploring ways to grow its alternative energy industry and provide a boost to economic development, but coal-fired power plants are expected to produce most of the state’s electricity through at least 2030.
The rest of Michigan’s electrical power comes mostly from nuclear power plants or natural gas- or oil-fired power plants. A very small [...]

The ethanol industry appears poised for a big year in 2007, as companies scramble to take advantage of continuing government subsidies and a growing political desire to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil.
But Wall Street investors who went pedal-to-the-metal during ethanol’s midyear frenzy in initial public offerings of stock seem to be easing off [...]

China Guodian Corp. announced it has agreed to invest $2.81 billion with its partner to build a coal mine and power plant in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
A partnership between China Guodian’s northeastern subsidiary and Heilongjiang Longxing International Resource Development Group will result in a 4,000 megawatt power plant and a coal mine with a [...]

A Malawi project investigating ethanol-based fuels is conducting road tests on an ethanol-propelled vehicle.
Supporters of the project argue that a switch to ethanol fuel would not only benefit the environment but also increase employment in the country’s sugarcane industry and save on foreign exchange spent on fuel imports.
According to Freeman Kalirani, a lead researcher on [...]

House Democrats in the first weeks of the new Congress plan to establish a dedicated fund to promote renewable energy and conservation, using money from oil companies.
That’s only one legislative hit the oil industry is expected to take next year as a Congress run by Democrats is likely to show little sympathy to the cash-rich, [...]

A new wind energy project in western Iowa has gone into operation with the ability to produce enough electricity to power the homes of about 40,000 customers.
MidAmerican Energy’s Victory wind project consists of 66 wind turbines in Carroll and Crawford counties, near the towns of Westside and Arcadia.
Construction on the 99-megawatt project began last spring. [...]

A new wind energy project by MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. in western Iowa has the ability to produce enough electricity to power about 40,000 customers.
The Victory Wind Project consists of 66 wind turbines in Carroll and Crawford counties, near the towns of Westside and Arcadia.
“MidAmerican is committed to helping Iowa become a leader in the [...]

If you want a glimpse of this province’s energy future, drive the winding country roads to its eastern tip, take a left at the sign for the village of Elmira, and follow the red dirt track to the right.
You can’t miss it.
Ten wind turbines stand along the trail, each 26 stories tall, with blades as [...]