Vestas and long-time customer Eolus have signed contracts for four wind projects totaling 59 MW in Sweden. According to Vestas, the turbine maker has now reached a total of more than 400 MW of firm orders with Eolus. The projects will be located in southern Sweden using a range of [read more]
Through a fund managed by BlackRock, the investment company has bought a majority interest in OwnEnergy's 68 MW Windthorst-2 wind project in Texas. Under the agreement, BlackRock will purchase the majority interest, Morgan Stanley and its affiliates will provide construction financing, and J.P. Morgan will provide institutional equity. OwnEnergy will [read more]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a EUR 500 million corporate loan to TenneT. The EIB says the funds are being made available in connection with the construction and operation of three offshore high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) lines that will connect wind farms in the North Sea with the German [read more]
Energi, a Massachusetts-based provider of risk management and insurance programs for the energy industry, has opened a new satellite office in Irving, Texas. The new facility, located in The Towers at Williams Square, will employ insurance and risk mitigation professionals. Energi says it also plans to open an additional office [read more]
In the American Council On Renewable Energy's (ACORE) latest installment of a region-by-region report of U.S. clean energy capacity and policies, the group says renewable energy is fast becoming more cost competitive in the Northeast. Three large utilities in Massachusetts, for example, recently signed long-term contracts to purchase renewable energy [read more]
Greenbriar Capital Corp. has commenced formal construction at its 80 MW Blue Mountain wind farm, located in Utah. Wisconsin-based RMT Inc. is serving as the project's contractor. Blue Mountain holds a 20-year energy sales agreement with PacifiCorp., and Greenbriar expects the project to qualify for $42 million of monetize-able federal [read more]
New Mexico-based Mesalands Community College has announced that graduate students and professors from Oregon State University will be utilizing Mesalands' wind turbine, located adjacent to the North American Wind Research and Training Center, to evaluate wind farms' potential impact on bird and bat fatalities. According to Mesalands, the research will [read more]
Sage Oil Vac Wind, a Texas-based provider of on-site oil change equipment to the wind power industry, has appointed Dallas Dixon to the newly created position of wind sales and marketing manager. In addition, the company says it is expanding its production facilities by 16,000 square feet to better meet the [read more]
Nordex has received a further order from its Irish customer ESB International. In the follow-up Woodhouse project, Nordex will be installing a 20 MW wind farm comprising five N100/2500 and three N90/2500 turbines. Also included is a five-year service contract. To date, Nordex says it has constructed a total of [read more]
3TIER has teamed up with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental organization that supports countries in their transition to sustainable energy, to publicly release wind and solar annual averages from 3TIER's global datasets. According to 3TIER, the data will now be available via IRENA's Global Renewable Energy Atlas, [read more]
New England's governors have signed an agreement committing their six states to an energy initiative they say is designed to bring affordable, cleaner and more reliable power to homes and businesses across the Northeast. According to the governors, this initiative will accelerate regional cooperation on expanding renewable energy and energy [read more]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) says it has taken another important step toward issuing a wind energy research lease to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), after finding there is no competitive interest in the area where the state agency proposes to conduct activities. This [read more]
First Wind has reached an agreement with Vermont-based Burlington Electric Department (BED) to sell the utility power generated from Hancock Wind, a planned project near Ellsworth, Maine. Under the deal, BED will buy 25% of the power and renewable energy certificates (RECs) generated at the 54 MW wind farm for [read more]
Goldwind has completed its first wind turbine installation in Romania. Last year, the company had signed a deal with Mireasa Energies to supply 20 of its 2.5 MW wind turbines for the 50 MW Mireasa project, located in the city of Constanta. Goldwind says it expects to ship the remaining [read more]
Anders Eldrup, former DONG Energy CEO, has been appointed new chairman of the Danish wind turbine test center LORC, where the construction of the LORC Nacelle Testing facility is progressing according to plan. According to the center, Eldrup will hold a key position in the development of the offshore wind turbine industry [read more]
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