Wind Power

Missouri Republicans for years have criticized the use of eminent domain to build high-voltage transmission lines.

While solar power increased, wind energy fell in 2023 in Missouri and Illinois, according to a new report from Climate Central, a nonprofit that analyzes and reports on climate science.

As the number of wind and solar farms increases, so does opposition in the rural areas where they’re being built. While more counties and townships passed restrictions in the last year, some states are responding by passing laws making it harder for local governments to say no to wind and solar.

The wind energy industry is now facing a new challenge: what to do with old wind turbine blades when it’s time to replace them.

Invenergy has bought 45% of the land it needs to run the electric transmission line across northern Missouri.

The House passed a bill that could essentially block the Grain Belt Express from connecting wind farms in Kansas to customers to the east.

Ameren Missouri has purchased a northwestern Missouri wind energy facility that’s expected to provide clean energy to about 90,000 customers.

Listener Bob Thompson was biking past the Bevo Mill earlier this year when he noticed something strange about the Dutch-style windmill: It appeared to be rotating in the wrong direction.

St. Louis officials released a plan late Monday to generate 100% of the city’s energy from wind and solar power by 2035. Environmental lawyers and…