OCEANSIDE — A Rancho Del Oro couple want to build Oceanside’sfirst suburban windmill in their backyard. For months, Keith and Margie Tannler, two environmentallyconscious retirees, have been trying to ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Oceanside couple are one step closer to building a windmill in their suburban back yard, according to a published report. Keith and Margie Tannler were able to get a permit last week from the city ...

BOURNE, Mass. — Wendie Howland grows her own food and heats her water with rooftop solar panels. She drives a Prius with a bumper sticker that boasts "One Less S.U.V." But when Howland tried to take ...

People could soon generate their own wind energy with a new type of domestic windmill that plugs straight into the grid. The windmill, which is still at the prototype stage, differs from others ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- Four years ago, Randy Schlickbernd paid $12,000 for a three-story wind turbine to put in a corner of his backyard. Since then, his power bills have dropped about $100 a month. "I ...