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Leases Awarded for Wind Farm Development Off the Coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia

Aug. 15, 2024

$861-Million Logistics Hub for Offshore Wind Farms Breaks Ground at Brooklyn Waterfront

June 14, 2024

Flex Wind USA Appoints Desiree Grace as GM for U.S. Market

May 10, 2024

GE’s New Vernova Business Banking on Electrification Supercycle

April 5, 2024

$2 Billion Offshore Wind Farm Projects to Produce 1,700MW for NY

Feb. 29, 2024

New Jersey Awards Contracts for Two Large Offshore Wind Farms

Jan. 29, 2024

GE Wind Business Lands Order for 674 Turbines for New Mexico Wind Farm

Jan. 9, 2024

Quanta and Pattern Energy Ink Deal to Work with IBEW on $1.3-Billion Transmission Line in NM & AZ

Dec. 14, 2023

Puget Sound Energy to Build a 248 MW Utility-Scale Wind Project in Montana

Dec. 11, 2023

The Beauty of Wind: Our 10 All-Time Favorite Photos of Wind Turbines

March 3, 2015

Whether you are fascinated by wind turbines and the wind industry or write it off as just outsized hobby for greenies or a government- financed boondoggle, you have to admit that the sheer scale of them is pretty amazing. Kudos to the photographers who shot the pictures of the wind turbines in this photo gallery.

Jim Lucy

Wind turbines have a certain raw industrial beauty about them. They stand as stark sentinels on land on at sea, with the most simple yet most complicated of tasks – reach hundreds of feet into the air where the birds fly to catch the sometimes fickle wind and turn it into electricity.

Whether you are fascinated by wind turbines and the wind industry or write it off as just outsized hobby for greenies or a government- financed boondoggle, you have to admit that the sheer scale of them is pretty amazing. Kudos to the photographers who took the pictures of some of them in this photo gallery.

About the Author

Jim Lucy | Editor-in-Chief

Over the past 30-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.

He recently launched a new subscription-based data product for Electrical Marketing that offers electrical sales potential estimates and related market data for more than 300 metropolitan areas, and in 1999 he published his first book, “The Electrical Marketer’s Survival Guide” for electrical industry executives looking for an overview of key market trends.

While managing Electrical Wholesaling’s editorial operations, Jim and the publication’s staff won several Jesse H. Neal awards for editorial excellence, the highest honor in the business press, and numerous national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J. (now Rowan University).