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Top Ind. wind farm drafts bat-protection plans

The operators of Indiana's largest wind farm are proposing changing the nighttime operations of the farm's 300-plus wind turbines to protect endangered Indiana bats from being killed by the turbines' spinning blades. Full story

Teenager Designs Safer Nuclear Power Plants

Do nuclear power plants need a redesign? Critics of nuclear energy seem to think so, and so does nuclear energy advocate, Taylor Wilson. A physics wunderkind, Wilson became the youngest person to ever create fusion at age 14. And since graduating from high school last year, he's devoted himself to f Full story

Maine wind turbine fire under investigation

An investigation into the cause of a fire that destroyed a wind turbine at New England's largest wind farm is expected to wrap up within a month. Full story

Utility announces $1.9 billion wind turbine plan

Iowa's largest energy company announced plans Wednesday to spend $1.9 billion to install hundreds of wind turbines by the end of 2015, marking what the governor described as the largest economic development project in the state's history. Full story

GE says tax changes fuel 1 gigawatt of new wind orders

(Reuters) - General Electric Co <GE.N> said on Monday the renewal of the U.S. production tax credit has helped it sell wind turbines with 1 gigawatt of generating power since January. Full story

Suzlon's REpower unit to slash 750 jobs to cut costs

(Reuters) - REpower Systems SE, the Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon Group's German arm, said on Friday it would reduce up to 750 jobs across the world as part of its plan to achieve cost savings of about 100 million euros ($130 million) in the current fiscal year. Full story

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