Feds To Auction Wind Leases For New England States
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The Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the first-ever competitive lease sale for renewable energy on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. The auction, scheduled to take place on July 31, will offer 164,750 acres offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts for commercial wind energy [read more]
Portland General Electric (PGE) has agreed to buy the second phase of Puget Sound Energy Inc.'s Lower Snake River wind farm, located near Dayton, Wash., in a deal that could cost as much $535 million. According to PGE, RES Americas Construction will build the 267 MW wind farm, which will [read more]
Continuing its plan to purchase the output from wind farms to provide energy for its data centers, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google is applying a similar strategy in Sweden. Google says it plans to buy all of the wind power from a 72 MW (using 3 MW turbines) wind farm in [read more]
Less than a week after the Nebraska legislature passed L.B.104, Gov. Dave Heineman, D-Neb., told reporters he is undecided whether to sign or veto the tax exemption bill. L.B.104 provides sales tax exemptions for the purchase of wind turbines, towers and other wind farm components. Supporters contend Nebraska lags far [read more]
Citing demand for fiberglass reinforcements, Irwindale, Calif.-based Jushi USA says it will raise prices for reinforcements by 5%. The adjustment will begin with shipments delivered on or after July 1, the company notes. Jushi cites that increases in energy, labor, raw materials and freight costs have grown significantly to the [read more]
Manchester, N.H.-based BURNDY has added stainless steel barb cable ties to its line of products. Stainless steel barb cable ties are designed and manufactured to meet or exceed industry standards to deliver maximum reliability. According to the company, the cable ties are nylon-based with self-locking stainless steel barbs and have [read more]
Portland General Electric (PGE) opened an energy storage system and customized solutions as part of its $23 million Salem Smart Power Center. The 5 MW energy storage facility will allow PGE to demonstrate how the integration of renewable energy sources, including wind and solar, and demand response technology can increase [read more]
As part of an effort to streamline fulfillment operations, turbine manufacturer Vestas says it will close 22 warehouses and outsource fulfillment to logistics provider DB Schenker. According to Vestas, warehouse operations will originate from a single central warehouse in Germany with support from three warehouses in Romania, Spain and Sweden. [read more]
The Power Company of Wyoming (PCW) reports that field work for the proposed Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind energy project is well under way. Following the release of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision last year, PCW is now preparing its [read more]
Ikeuchi Towel, a manufacturer of eco-friendly towels and related products, has been awarded the WindMade label for sourcing 100% of its electricity consumption from wind power, the first Japanese provider to be awarded the designation. WindMade, which is backed by the UN Global Compact and conservation group WWF, requires participating [read more]
Students at the Camden Hills (Maine) Regional High School are among seven finalists at an international competition sponsored by auto manufacturer Volvo. The students were recognized for their contributions in the deployment of a Northwind Power Systems' Northwind 100 kW wind turbine at the school. In fact, the students helped [read more]
Ontario is replacing its existing feed-in tariff (FIT) program for large-scale renewable energy projects with a competitive procurement process. According to Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli, the province will work with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and municipalities to develop a competitive procurement process for renewable projects over 500 kW. Chiarelli [read more]
A new era is dawning in the renewable energy industry, says Ernst & Young. According to the company's 10th anniversary edition of the Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), global annual clean energy investment totaled $269 billion in 2012, representing a five-fold increase on 2004. The sector now competes for [read more]
Gamesa has announced the winners of the third edition of its Patents and Innovators Competition, which acknowledges its employees' innovation and patenting efforts. The first prize-winning patent is a system that regulates, depending on readings for variables - mainly turbine rotation speed and initial blade pitch, in a controlled manner [read more]
Xcel Energy will seek to add approximately 550 MW of new wind generation in Colorado between now and 2016, taking the installed level of the company's Colorado system to more than 2,700 MW. The potential additions are the result of the company's request for proposal (RFP) issued in March, which [read more]
Wind speeds in Canada and the Northern U.S were 10% to 20% below average but 5% to 10% above average across most of the southern and western U.S. for the fourth quarter of 2012, according to Albany, N.Y.-based AWS Truepower's quarterly Wind Trends bulletin. In North America, AWS notes wind [read more]
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