Renewable energy at Mount Sunapee
The owners of Mount Sunapee Resort, Tim and Diane Mueller, have purchased 27 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy credits, the equivalent of what it takes to power the Newbury resort and two others they own, Okemo in Vermont and Crested Butte in Colorado. The credits subsidize solar and wind power, but the move will raise the Muellers’ energy costs about 12 percent.

Relic of farm life finds new favor
"I'm not sure if I'm a visionary who's way ahead of the times, or a curmudgeon stuck in the past. But, either way, I like the windmills on our ranch. The ranch has been using wind power since it was homesteaded, but only recently has wind power become all the talk in the alternative energy circles. For the most part, wind is a hateful weather phenomenon on the prairie. It blows dirt in your eyes, makes it hard to cut hay, speeds up wildfires and saps the strength right out of you when you're buffeted by it. But wind does have a saving grace. It can really make the windmill wheel turn and when the wheel's turning, it can pump more water than a thirsty herd can drink on a hot day."

Wind power is a good deal for Texas
"Jack Hunt, CEO of King Ranch Inc., recently claimed in these pages that my efforts to lease state lands for wind energy amounted to a giveaway of taxpayers' money. That's despite the fact that the Texas General Land Office is set to earn at least $60 million for the schoolchildren of Texas through leasing land that wasn't earning a dime. The land office is adding millions to the Permanent School Fund and spending nothing to do it. From my perspective, that's not a bad deal. Mr. Hunt, however, takes issue with state and federal tax credits to encourage the growth of a clean energy industry. That's bold criticism from someone overseeing an organization that pays just $179,980 in property taxes on $63.1 million of ag-exempt land that King Ranch Inc. occupies in South Texas."