E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) has signed a deal to install GE's PowerUp platform to enhance 469 of its GE 1.5-77 wind turbines across five wind farms. According to GE, PowerUp is a customized software-enabled platform that increases a wind farm's output by up to 5%. Andy Holt, general manager [read more]
Dan Utech has been named to succeed Heather Zichal as President Barack Obama's top advisor on energy and climate change. Zichal, who held the position for five years, stepped down last week. In a statement, Obama wished Zichal well on her new endeavors and highlighted her contributions. "She crafted my [read more]
Eight U.S. Senators have sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry urging it to include a strong energy title in the current farm bill it is developing. A collection of environmental, renewable energy and agriculture advocacy organizations led by the Agriculture Energy Coalition (AgEC) [read more]
Turbine component maker LM Wind Power Group has agreed to sell its Svendborg Brakes company to Altra Holdings Inc., a Massachusetts-headquartered supplier of power transmission and motion control products. Under the definitive agreement, Altra Holdings will buy Svendborg Brakes for a cash consideration of EUR 80.1 million, which is payable [read more]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted the University of Central Florida (UCF) a $3.2 million award to lead one of four national consortia to develop distributed technologies to help increase engineering capacity and prepare for a national shift from traditional sources of electricity to renewables, such as solar [read more]
The California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) board of governors has approved the design framework for an energy imbalance market (EIM), which CAISO says will allow western grid operators to voluntarily participate in a real-time energy market that enhances grid reliability and responsiveness, integrates renewable power, and saves wholesale energy costs. [read more]
ALLETE Clean Energy, a subsidiary of ALLETE Inc., has signed an acquisition agreement to purchase wind farms in Minnesota, Iowa and Oregon from The AES Corp. in early 2014. In addition, the two companies have signed an option agreement for ALLETE to acquire a fourth wind farm in Pennsylvania in [read more]
Siemens has announced it will be supplying six of its SWT-3.6-120 offshore wind turbines to extend the community-owned Norderhof wind farm, an onshore project located in the North Frisia region on the German North Sea coast. According to Siemens, the 3.6 MW turbines will be erected in summer 2014 and [read more]
A consortium has officially flipped the switch on its 2 MW floating offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. Announced last year, the demonstration project is sponsored by the Japanese government in an effort to test the viability of large-scale floating wind [read more]
The Basin Electric Power Cooperative has signed two power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Infinity Wind Power for wind projects to be developed in North Dakota. The combined capacity is 278 MW. Infinity will be developing the 106 MW Sunflower project in Morton County and the 172 MW Antelope Hills project [read more]
Samsung Renewable Energy and Pattern Energy Group have broken ground on their Grand Renewable Wind (GRW) project, located in Haldimand County, Ontario. According to the partners, the 150 MW project will utilize 67 Ontario-made wind turbines: Siemens' facility in Tillsonburg is manufacturing blades for the project, and CS Wind's plant [read more]
The California Independent System Operator Corp. (CAISO) board of governors has approved interconnection rule changes intended to enable power plant developers to downsize projects in response to economic and demand issues. The new interconnection changes will provide an annual process beginning in October 2014 for developers to [read more]
Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC, an affiliate of Clean Line Energy Partners, reports that the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has unanimously approved an order granting a siting permit to construct the 370-mile Kansas portion of a new 750-mile direct-current transmission line. The line will originate near Dodge City, Kans., [read more]
Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex SE has announced recent contracts in Germany totaling 36.8 MW. In October, three customers placed orders for new wind farms comprising a total of 15 N100/2500 and N117/2400 wind turbines. Nordex gained new business in Bavaria and will supply seven of its N117/2400 units to two [read more]
Gamesa says its G128-5.0 MW prototype offshore turbine, located in the Canary Islands region, has marked record-high power generation for wind turbines in Spain. On Nov. 2, Gamesa says the turbine produced 118.05 MWh of electricity, surpassing the previous record of 107.82 MWh, which the company's G128-4.5 MW turbine had [read more]
Vestas is on the lookout to hire hundreds of new employees at its Colorado manufacturing plants. The announcement comes after the turbine maker, citing financial problems caused by 2012's production tax credit uncertainty, laid off workers at the facilities in February. However, Vestas reports it has already boosted its headcount [read more]
In a new financial report, Gamesa reveals it is on track to reach the upper end of its objectives for profitability and sales this year. Gamesa says that despite economic difficulties and the complex situation in the industry, the company recorded EUR 31 million in net profit in the first [read more]
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