U.S. Steps Up Avian Oversight: What The Wind Industry Needs To Know
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau joined Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley to announce the proposed notice of sale for nearly 80,000 acres offshore Maryland for commercial wind energy leasing. The DOI says that, [read more]
Blade Dynamics has announced that the design phase of its Very Long Blade Project for the U.K.-based Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), launched earlier this year, has successfully concluded and that the prototyping phase will now begin. Blade Dynamics says it will now assemble an approximately 80-meter-long blade prototype and begin [read more]
Invenergy Wind LLC has announced the completion of construction and the start of commercial operations for Phase 1 of its Des Moulins wind energy project in Quebec. The 135.7 MW project is located approximately 140 miles northeast of Montreal and features 59 Enercon E-82 2.3 MW wind turbines. The wind [read more]
Gamesa has secured a new contract in India to supply 50 MW to independent power producer Green Infra. The contract calls for the wind farm development, as well as the supply, installation and commissioning of 25 G97-2.0 MW wind turbines in a wind project being developed in Kosegaon, in the [read more]
The 61 MW Kinangop Wind Farm in Kenya, developed by Aeolus Kenya and constructed by Iberdrola Engineering, will be powered by 38 GE 1.6 MW wind turbines. GE will provide operations and maintenance for the wind farm through a full-service agreement with Kinangop Wind Park Ltd. for 10 years. The [read more]
Availon Inc. has been awarded a long-term contract to provide a full scope of operations and maintenance (O&M) services, including scheduled and unscheduled services, to the 132 MW Big Smile Wind Farm. Located near Cheyenne, Okla., the farm is owned by ACCIONA Energy North America and came online last year. [read more]
After spending five years in and out of court, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) says it and GE have amicably settled and dropped all legal actions taken by both parties in the U.S. regarding alleged infringements of their patents on wind turbines. In 2008, GE brought a case against MHI [read more]
The merger between standards bodies DNV and GL is official, and the new company, DNV GL, has launched its global brand and website. The merger was originally announced in December 2012 and approved by competition authorities in September. The group says it comprises more than 16,000 employees in over 100 [read more]
First Wind and the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. (MMWEC) have announced an agreement that will bring clean energy from the developer's planned Hancock Wind project near Ellsworth, Maine, to 17 Massachusetts municipal utilities. Under a 25-year, fixed-price contract, First Wind will sell nearly 75% of the power and capacity [read more]
Marshall Wind Energy LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of RPM Access, has commenced construction of its 74 MW wind farm in Marshall County near Beattie, Kan. Marshall Wind Energy began developing the project in 2009 and executed a high-voltage transmission interconnection agreement with Westar Energy and the Southwest Power Pool [read more]
LM Wind Power will use a $700,000 federal tax credit to re-equip and add up to 170 workers to its Grand Forks, N.D., blade manufacturing facility. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued the blade maker the credit as part of a $150 million funding round awarded to 12 [read more]
E.ON Climate & Renewables North America has secured institutional equity financing for approximately $96.2 million and a commitment to fund further capital contributions from JPM Capital Corp. (J.P. Morgan) in exchange for a partial interest in E.ON's Panther Creek I&II Wind Farm. Panther Creek, comprising 172 GE 1.5 MW turbines, [read more]
ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) has announced it will not be taking forward its lease option to develop the up to 1.8 GW Argyll Array Offshore Windfarm off the coast of Scotland. SPR has been working on the Argyll Array project since 2009, and a variety of detailed technical and environmental studies [read more]
California-based Greenbriar Capital Corp. has initiated a private placement in hopes of raising $6 million. The company says it plans to use the funds to complete all of the remaining development milestones needed for financial close for both the 80 MW Blue Mountain Utah wind energy facility, currently under construction [read more]
The outlook for Ontario's bulk electricity grid is positive over the next year and a half, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) says in its latest 18-Month Outlook. The report anticipates adequate supply levels and transmission resources to meet provincial demand under both normal and extreme weather conditions. Between December [read more]
DONG Energy has acquired a 100% ownership interest from Centrica in the U.K. offshore wind development project Race Bank. DONG paid $82 million for the project, which has a total consented capacity of up to 580 MW and is located in the Greater Wash area about 27 km off the [read more]
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