State and federal governments are encouraging property owners to give windmill a whirl. Backyard windmills are sprouting across New Jersey. The lure: cheap electricity. State and federal governments ...

First, it's chickens in the backyard. Now it's rain barrels under the downspouts. Next it will be windmills in the backyard to recharge the batteries in our electric automobiles. Give us a break. The ...

A Monkton family is free to build the area?s first backyard windmill, Baltimore County?s zoning commissioner has ruled in a precedent-setting opinion he said he hopes will “forge new ground” in ...

MELISSA, Texas ” An orange flag marks where Gary Lisle planned to put up a 33-foot windmill behind his house. But that’s about as far as his green idea got in this Dallas suburb. Denied a building ...

CLARKS LANDING (AP) Maryland residents who lack the wind, the will or the wherewithal to put windmills in their backyard can still buy green power, often in a more convenient way and at a lower cost.

NORCO, Calif (KABC) -- It took Dutch immigrants Theo and Jeanne Zoetemelk about four years to get the permits, but they have finally built a 40-foot windmill at their ...

POCATELLO - Vermon Esplin sits before his laptop computer and points at the screen. The program displays an anemometer, measuring the wind speed of one of his two newly installed windmills in his back ...