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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...