Named after the Aesop fable in which the sun persuades a man to take off his coat after the North Wind fails to do so, the policy sought to engage the North.
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.
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By contrast, the North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition managed to muscle Senate Bill 747 into the state legislature in about three months.
The Center for Security Policy commends Representative Cox , for amendments he has developed to minimize the chances that food aid and fuel oil to North Korea will wind up strengthening and perpetuating its despotic regime.
Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.
Residents of Rugby, North Dakota, suffered through wind chills of 51 degrees below zero early Monday morning.
North Carolina boasts more offshore wind power potential than any other state on the East Coast, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
The Fleet continues to wind its way north, ending up at Hampstead Heath, the ponds of which were actually formed by a damming of the river in the 18th Century.
Mr Thompson said tests of the wind power on the north coast at Chouet had been successful.
When the wind blows in the Netherlands, wind power can flow north.
The company bidding to develop a wind farm off the north Devon coast is reviewing its plans after concerns voiced by local people.
In one example among many, the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit challenging a 100-turbine wind development in mountains north of the Mojave Desert.
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But Hoyer says the EIB is also investing in big projects in stronger economies, such as wind farms in the North Sea, because it's important for the institution in maintaining its AAA rating.
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Wind works well in the North Sea or Texas, but not on rooftops.
Power firm Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has announced plans to develop an offshore wind turbine testing facility in North Ayrshire.
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Veterinary experts are now increasingly worried that the disease could cross the North Channel, carried either by the wind or by people.
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Belgium agreed to coordinate investments and project development plans to roll out the offshore wind power grid across the North Sea, the Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea.
It also means that places like North Dakota can produce a lot of wind energy but can't deliver it to communities that want it, leading to a gap between how much clean energy we are using and how much we could be using.
Campaigners say a 14-turbine wind farm planned near Selby in North Yorkshire would "decimate" nearby villages.
The provinces of Navarra and Rioja in the north-east of Spain now rely on wind farms for 50% of their electricity.
The wind is currently coming from the north-west, pushing the slick towards the mouth of the gulf and away from danger.
Iberdrola said the turbines would allow it to produce 2, 700 megawatts of power from its wind farm developments in Europe and North America.
North and South Carolina have at least 30 wind-related manufacturing plants, according to AWEA data, including a major turbine factory in Greenville, S.C.
Colbert Busch is currently on leave from her job as director of business development for Clemson University's Wind Turbine Drive Testing Facility in North Charleston.
The wind-power lobby has won a potentially game-changing victory in its full-court press to unlock the vast offshore wind resource off the coast of North Carolina.
Die-hards can spend up to 15 hours climbing the glacier's almost vertical north face, but moderate hikers prefer this wind-whipped, 90-minute scramble, where the spectacular views more than compensate for any burning thighs.
Green energy company Ecotricity, who applied for permission with Honda, said the wind turbine originally proposed towards the north side of the site, closest to people's houses, would not now be included in the scheme.
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