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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ODESSA -- Their towers rise from the ground, their silhouettes a nostalgic reminder of America's pioneer past. But look closer and see that, constant as the blowing wind, the wheels of West Texas ...

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 ...