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RENO, Nev., Oct. 10, 2003 — New resource maps identifying the best locations in the western United States for the development of wind and geothermal energy plants were unveiled recently at the Western ...

Two technology artists who head Google's "Big Picture" visualization research group debuted a new project this week that shows a time-lapse animation of wind speeds across the U.S. "An invisible, ...

The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with ...

Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing sectors of renewable energy in the United States. About 3% of the total electricity in the United States was generated by wind turbines in 2012 (according to ...

Wind power started in California in 1981 when the Altamont wind farm in Alameda County was built as a reaction to the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s. But now, as a new map released Thursday shows, the ...

The Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America program has released new maps of wind energy potential in the U.S. The maps, the first new ones in 19 years, are meant to serve as a resource for ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

SEATTLE — A powerful atmospheric river pummeled western Washington over the weekend, delivering three consecutive days of ...

The wind turbines planned off the San Luis Obispo County coast would be similar to Ocean Wind’s WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind energy project near Portugal. They are each about 688 feet ...