DOE Shocks With Offshore Winners; Kansas RPS Survives Another Year
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The Governors' Wind Energy Coalition has released a letter to Gina McCarthy, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expressing the group's support for wind energy as an eligible measure for states to utilize to comply with upcoming carbon emission rules. The EPA is currently working on standards under [read more]
Germany-based conglomerate Siemens AG has announced Vision 2020, a new strategy to streamline and restructure the company's operations. As of Oct. 1, the organization will bundle its business into nine divisions instead of the current 16 and focus more on growth fields in electrification, automation and digitalization. The company says [read more]
Pennsylvania State University has won the first-ever U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Collegiate Wind Competition. The inaugural competition challenged undergraduate students from multiple disciplines to design and build a lightweight, transportable wind turbine with the ability to power small electronic devices. Teams also presented a detailed business plan and [read more]
Juhl Energy Inc., a Minnesota-based clean energy solutions provider and community wind project developer, recently reached a definitive agreement to acquire two operating wind turbines in Iowa: one located in Manley and one located in Kensett. The projects, each featuring a single GE XLE 1.62 MW turbine, have been commercially [read more]
Siemens has won a deal from NJR Clean Energy Ventures to provide turbines for the approximately 21 MW Carroll wind power project in Iowa. Siemens plans to begin installing the project's nine SWT-2.3-108 turbines in October, with commissioning scheduled for early 2015. The contract also includes a service and maintenance [read more]
Gearbox Express (GBX), a company focused on providing down-tower, wind gearbox remanufacturing services, has signed a master major supply agreement with Xcel Energy for a wind turbine gearbox exchange program in the utility's Upper Midwest service territory. As part of the agreement, Xcel Energy will purchase remanufactured gearboxes from GBX, [read more]
Independent power producer Invenergy LLC has hired Paul Turner as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Invenergy says Turner is an industry veteran with prior senior positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cornerstone Energy Advisors, Renergix Solar, Peoples Energy and Hecate Energy. "Paul brings a wealth of utility and power industry experience, [read more]
Boston-based renewable energy developer First Wind has released its 2013 Community Report, which highlights the company's community outreach and philanthropic activity within its host communities throughout last year. In 2013, First Wind says it presented more than $520,000 to focused areas of giving, including community and civic organizations, recreation and [read more]
A coalition of environmental and conservation groups and developer Deepwater Wind have announced an agreement to implement additional protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales during pre-construction activities for the Deepwater ONE offshore wind farm, being developed off the Rhode Island and Massachusetts coasts. In July 2013, Deepwater Wind acquired [read more]
Suzlon has completed the previously announced sale of the 240 MW Big Sky wind farm in Illinois to EverPower Wind Holdings Inc. Financial details were not disclosed. In April, Suzlon acquired Big Sky from bankrupt Edison Mission Energy (EME). As part of that agreement, Suzlon forgave a $228 million loan [read more]
Last year started off slow due to the uncertainty caused by the late production tax credit (PTC) extension, but GE says it has secured a cumulative 3.9 GW of firm and unconditional wind turbine supply orders in the U.S. since Jan. 1, 2013 - the date the incentive was revived [read more]
ABB has announced the launch of new grid interconnection technology applications for wind farms. The company says its Ventyx Energy Portfolio Management solution accurately forecasts wind patterns and collects data. ABB's new Symphony Plus for Wind, meanwhile, is a SCADA offering designed for monitoring and controlling wind plant fleets. According [read more]
The Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) has entered into a formal partnership with the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) to collaborate on building the distributed and community wind markets in the U.S., as well as coordinating on federal and state policy initiatives. Community wind is characterized by local participation, usually [read more]
GE has announced a technology demonstration of a seven-meter blade extension, taking its wind turbines from a 77-meter rotor to a 91-meter rotor. There are currently two prototypes, completed with Noble Environmental Power at the Clinton Wind Park in New York, that have been in operation for 10 months. GE [read more]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has previewed an ambitious vision for the growth of U.S. wind energy to account for 35% of the nation's grid by 2050. At the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) WINDPOWER 2014 Conference & Exhibition, being held this week in Las Vegas, the DOE revealed [read more]
Following its second call for offshore wind tenders last year, the French government has awarded a consortium consisting of GDF SUEZ, EDP Renewables, Neoen Marine and AREVA two projects totaling 1 GW. The group was competing with another consortium made up of EDF Energies Nouvelles, wpd offshore and Alstom. The [read more]
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