Wind company pleads guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles
ESI, a subsidiary of the wind company NextEra Energy, pled guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, including…
ESI, a subsidiary of the wind company NextEra Energy, pled guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, including…
Hundreds of out-of-state protestors are flooding to northern Minnesota to protest the replacement of an aging oil pipeline, but reality apparently has a sense of humor: power plants running on…
Last week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Xcel Energy’s $750 million plan to decommission and rebuild, or “repower” five wind facilities before the end of their useful 20-year…
Yesterday, we wrote about a newly-released, peer-reviewed study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that found a steep drop off in wind turbine production over the course of a…
On March 8th, a wind turbine owned by Apex Clean Energy caught fire in South Texas. Many people don’t realize this, but wind turbines require oil to operate. Oil, which…
Mitchell, South Dakota is famous for the corn palace, but it appears the community is also known among wind companies as a place to dispose of wind turbine blades that…
Renewable energy advocates are seemingly always talking about how advances in technology will *finally* make wind and solar competitive with coal, nuclear, and natural gas without taxpayer subsidies. One of…
It looks like Minnesota will have a very expensive mess to clean up when the wind turbines currently operating in the state reach the end of their 20 year useful…
American Experiment has been a leader in exposing the fact that wind turbines only last for twenty years, and after that time the turbines must be torn down as part…
Wind turbines and solar panels only last for 20 and 30 years, respectively, meaning every wind turbine and solar panel built today will be scrap metal by 2050. How can…
The failed wind turbine next to the St. Cloud VA hospital will finally be dismantled this summer after sitting idle since 2012. Now that the fate of this boondoggle is…
The following article is a guest column by Kristi Rosenquist, a Grassroots Citizen Activist in Minnesota: When President Trump said, “The noise [from wind turbines] causes cancer,” the reactions were immediate. Iowa…
The short, 20-year lifespan of wind turbines is one of the most important, but least talked about facets, aspects of energy policy. American Experiment has written about this topic several…
An industrial wind facility in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin has been decommissioned after just 20 years of service because the turbines are no longer cost effective to maintain and operate. The decommissioning…