CEDAR RAPIDS - It's easy to spot the 240-foot-tall wind turbine on Kirkwood Community College's Cedar Rapids campus. The 2.5 megawatt turbine helps power campus. But it's the full-sized turbine hub ...

Are you mechanically inclined? Do you enjoy climbing tall ladders and yearn to join the green economy? If so, consider retraining and switching to the fastest-growing job in the U.S. — wind turbine ...

The country's fastest-growing occupation is wind turbine technician, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — with numbers expected to more than double over the next decade. So what does a wind ...

In 2011, Don Williams made the long trip from Michigan to North Dakota hoping to capitalize on the Bakken oil boom — to, as he says, "chase oil and make quick cash." It paid off; for years Williams ...

When Juan Flores started his first job fixing wind turbines 14 years ago, he wished he’d had more training. On one of his first days on the job, he had to climb a 90-meter ladder. But no one told him ...

Texas State Technical College wind energy technology instructor James Chung, center, helps Steven Vasquez, left, and Shayne Howard, right, during a class in Sweetwater on March 5. Wind energy ...

Niyol Wind Project Developer Jennifer Herron recently gave Fleming Junior High and High School students a lesson on renewable energy in Colorado. Recently members from Northeastern Junior College and ...

DANA, Ia. — The higher Tyler Humpfer climbed Friday, the further he felt like he could see into his future. The 24-year-old from Ankeny was scaling a 264-foot tall, 1.6-megawatt wind turbine on a ...

Wind energy is not going away. Those are the words of Clyde Mustain, manager of Invenergy’s Spring Canyon Wind Energy Center, in Peetz, about an industry that is seeing substantial growth. According ...

Wind power is a growing part of the energy mix in the United States. And more wind turbines means there are new jobs for people to install and repair them. The job requires a unique skill set. With ...