Nation's wind power generation capacity grew fivefold in last decade

The nation's wind power capacity has climbed about fivefold to 2.5 million kw over the past decade, sources say. But growth in fiscal 2011 shrank to just under 100,000 kw — the slowest pace in the decade — following the termination of subsidies for wind plant construction the previous year, the sources said Saturday.

Vt. journalist writes book on Lowell wind project

A Vermont journalist who has covered the heated debate over a wind power project being built on northern Vermont's Lowell Mountain has written a book about the project and opposition to it.