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Happy New Year and welcome to 2009!  I wanted to take this opportunity to recognize the wind industry's accomplishments of 2008.  You can read a summary of these accomplishments below.  Thanks to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) for compiling this list.  To read AWEA's 2008 Highlights Press Release in full, please click...

Happy Holidays from Community Energy!  This year we have donated $3,000, that we would have otherwise spent printing, posting and shipping physical Holiday Cards, to the Solar Electric Light Fund.

The mission of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is to provide solar power and wireless communications to a quarter of the world’s population living in energy poverty.

Thank you for sharing in a very successful 2008 which...

I have been interested in wind energy for years, and work for a wind energy company, but had never visited a wind farm. I pass the Jersey Atlantic wind farm in Atlantic City every summer on the way to my vacation house in Brigantine, New Jersey. I can see the turbines from the beach, but I have never gone for a tour. When I was offered the opportunity to visit a new wind farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, I was excited at the prospect of finally...

The flexibility of the products we sell enables our customers to apply renewable energy in often creative ways. A college applies its renewable energy purchase to offset the electricity use of its dorms. A company assigns its clean energy to its retail locations or a corporate headquarters. A bride and groom green their wedding. Major League Baseball powers Yankee Stadium with wind for the All-Star Game. Community Energy has sold wind energy to...

T. Boone Pickens’ new book “The First Billion is the Hardest” is hitting bookstores soon. The book itself is not the news, but if you know nothing about Mr. Pickens, the title should tell you something. His name often appears in print preceded by terms like “tycoon”, “legendary oilman”, or “billionaire financier”. CNBC even coined the term “Oracle of Oil” to describe him. Financial World named him CEO of the Decade in 1989 and the Oil & Gas...