Provided by the US Department of Energy (DOE), this site serves as a gateway to energy efficiency and renewable energy information. With over 600 links and access to 80,000 documents, the site is fairly comprehensive. The bulk of the content is accessed via the Technologies section, which is browseable by topic. each topic page offers links to related sites and numerous subtopic pages, which in...

Local man envisions small turbines taking wind power to the people http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/206643 Wind may carry jobs to N.C. http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/632077.html Cape Wind: America's First Offshore Wind Farm on Nantucket Sound [pdf] http://www.capewind.org/ Save our Sound [pdf] http://www.saveoursound.org/ EERE: Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is based in Golden, Colorado and is the "only national laboratory solely dedicated to advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies from concept to commercial application." Another aspect of NREL's work involves the creation of high-quality educational resources for those persons who would like to learn more about renewable energy....

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) believes that "educating students, teachers, and consumers is the other key to finding new renewable ways to power our homes, businesses, and cars." This site is full of important educational resources such as classroom activities, online quizzes, and fact sheets that deal with renewable energy technology and applied sciences. In the Educational...

Green Mountain Becomes First Campus Powered by Vermont Dairy Cows http://www.greenmtn.edu/gmcjournal/pop_102306_cow_power.asp Local farm leading way for green power http://www.addisonindependent.com/?q=node/295 CVPS Cow Power [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.cvps.com/cowpower/Cow%20Power%20home.html The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy http://www.ashdenawards.org/ Vermont...

For some, the thought of geothermal energy might bring up the nation of Iceland, which has successfully harnessed this form of energy for many years. The United States Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies Program is interested in such technologies as well, and their splendid site will be of great use to scientists, policy types, and others. The first thing new visitors will want to do is...

The Energy and Minerals Mission Area of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) "conducts research and assessments on the location, quantity, and quality of material and energy resources, including the economic and environmental effects of resource extraction and use." Visitors to the site can click on thematic sections such as Energy Resources and Mineral Resources. Each of these areas...

This 29-page paper "focuses on utility-scale electricity generation from wind and provides an overview of the history, technologies, economics, environmental impacts, regulations and policies related to this use of wind power." Published by the Renewable Energy Policy Project and updated in November 2003, the document outlines recent trends in turbine technology that have made wind energy more...