State and federal governments are encouraging property owners to give windmill a whirl. Backyard windmills are sprouting across New Jersey. The lure: cheap electricity. State and federal governments ...

POCATELLO - Vermon Esplin sits before his laptop computer and points at the screen. The program displays an anemometer, measuring the wind speed of one of his two newly installed windmills in his back ...

Martin Herrenknecht turned his construction equipment company into a market leader. The entrepreneur supports alternative energy but opposes windmills—at least in his own backyard. Isn’t that a bit of ...

A Monkton family is free to build the area?s first backyard windmill, Baltimore County?s zoning commissioner has ruled in a precedent-setting opinion he said he hopes will “forge new ground” in ...

BOURNE, Mass. — Wendie Howland grows her own food and heats her water with rooftop solar panels. She drives a Prius with a bumper sticker that boasts "One Less S.U.V." But when Howland tried to take ...

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NORCO, Calif (KABC) -- It took Dutch immigrants Theo and Jeanne Zoetemelk about four years to get the permits, but they have finally built a 40-foot windmill at their ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY | Four years ago, Randy Schlickbernd paid $12,000 for a three-story wind turbine for a corner of his E Street backyard. Since then, his power bills have dropped about $100 a month. "I ...

The Hamptons loves windmills. There are multiple windmills scattered across the East End—as well as Windmill Lanes, appropriately named after their landmarks. Robert Downey, Jr. even purchased one of ...