Ken Starcher at WEATS

Got this link from our friends at Class 4 Winds! The Associated Press has a story out about the Fed’s attempts to speed up solar development. Here’s an excerpt:
The federal government’s top land steward said Monday that the United States will fast-track efforts to build solar power generating facilities on public space in six Western [...]

TIME recently released a great article on its website about the future of Wind Power that you should check out. Here’s an excerpt:
But for all the green talk and growth in wind power — it accounted for 42% of all new electricity generation added to the U.S. grid last year — wind still makes up [...]

The Amarillo Globe-News has a story up about Amarillo College’s attempts to start a solar program. AEI’s Ken Starcher offers his opinion on the issue. Here’s an excerpt:
Amarillo College is seeking nearly $900,000 from the National Science Foundation to add solar energy education as a program at its Amarillo and Dumas campuses.Such a program would [...]

The Amarillo Independent has a great story about Class 4 Winds‘ s AJ Swope. Here’s an excerpt:

AJ Swope was a celebrity, but it wasn’t enough.
The 2003 Pampa High School graduate was an anchorman on an Amarillo television station, but he wanted to do more with his life. Now, he feels he is.
After high school, Swope [...]

Bill Paetzold was born in the depression and has been a farmer all of his life. During his years of dryland farming, he has seen the oil economy boom and bust, water levels drop, and fuel prices go through the roof. In his 70+years of wisdom, Mr Paetzold began to think there should be a [...]

Some news from the Hereford Brand, concerning wind turbines and wildlife…
The lesser prairie chicken has been under consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for inclusion on the federal endangered species list for nearly 20 years, but the threat to the rare bird posed by hundreds of wind turbines could be enough to force [...]

LubbockOnline is featuring an article about Wind Energy in the Panhandle, quoting our very own Ken Starcher:
The title of Wednesday’s alternative-energy seminar was “What’s in the Wind?” The answer seemed to be “jobs.”
Most presentations focused on staffing an anticipated boom of wind farms, assuming credit markets get stronger and the Public Utilities Commission makes a [...]

AEI’s Dr. Vaughn Nelson’s book, Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment is available for sale at CRCPress Online.
The book is selling for $107.96.
Book Summary
Due to the mounting demand for energy and increasing population of the world, switching from nonrenewable fossil fuels to other energy sources is not an option—it is a necessity. Focusing on [...]

Breaking news from SNL Interactive:
Texas regulators on Jan. 29 awarded more than a dozen electric transmission developers shares of an approximately $5 billion plan to build transmission lines between wind-rich regions in west Texas and the panhandle and major load centers.
The decision, made by the Public Utility Commission of Texas at its open meeting, parcels [...]