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Betsy Lillian
Betsy Lillian serves as the editor of North American Windpower, as well as sister publications NGT News, Solar Industry and Unmanned Aerial Online. She has been with Zackin Publications since 2012.
Siemens Wins Offshore Order For 385 MW German Baltic Sea Project
Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and commissioning of 60 direct-drive offshore turbines for the Arkona wind farm, located roughly 35...
Senvion Supplying 13 Turbines For Quixwood Moor Wind Farm
Senvion has won an order with Ireland-based renewables investor NTR PLC to supply 10 MM92 and three MM82 turbines for the Quixwood Moor Wind...
All Aboard! Block Island Offshore Wind Farm Vessel Gets To Work
Atlantic Wind Transfers, the commercial wind support services arm of Rhode Island Fast Ferry, has embarked on the first phase of a 20-year charter...
DOI Study: Many Turbines In Great Plains Pose Little Threat To Sandhill Cranes
The current placement of wind turbines in the central and southern Great Plains may have relatively few negative effects on sandhill cranes wintering in...
Nordex Connects Two U.S. Wind Projects To Grid
Nordex says it connected two U.S. wind farms to the grid earlier this year: the Thunder Spirit in North Dakota and the Fair Wind...
RFP Seeks U.S.-Israel Projects With Focus On Renewables, Energy Efficiency
BIRD Energy, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and Israel’s Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, has announced a new request...
Vestas Chooses InspecTools For Drone Inspections In North America
Santa Cruz, Calif.-based InspecTools Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with Vestas in which they will work together to deploy drone-based inspections of wind...
Nacelle-Mounted Wind Iris LiDAR Gets Fitted At Uruguayan Wind Farm
Vermont-based Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG) and Ventus Ingenieria have installed a nacelle-mounted Wind Iris LiDAR system at the 20 MW Caracoles wind farm in...
Gamesa Adding Output-Boosting Software To 54 Iberdrola Wind Projects
Gamesa is installing its Energy Thrust program, which boosts the output of turbines, at 54 Iberdrola wind farms totaling 1,602 MW of capacity.
Under the...
Vestas Challenges Scaling Rules By Installing Multi-Rotor Turbine Demo
In cooperation with the Technical University of Denmark, Vestas is installing a concept demonstrator to test the technical feasibility to operate and control a...
FoundOcean Set To Work On Burbo Bank Extension Project This Summer
FoundOcean, a U.K.-based provider of grouting services for the offshore energy industry, says it has been contracted by Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects for...
AWS Truepower Announces Large Batch Of New Hires
Albany, N.Y.-based AWS Truepower, an international provider of wind and solar energy consulting and engineering services, says it has added a number of key...
Wind Energy Gets Connecticut Printer’s Stamp Of Approval
Six years into operations, a single, 100 kW wind turbine offsets one-third of the power used by New Haven-based Phoenix Press.
Apex Clean Energy Acquires Sugar Creek Wind One In Illinois
Charlottesville, Va.-based Apex Clean Energy has acquired the Sugar Creek Wind One project from Springfield, Ill.-based American Wind Energy Management Corp. (AWEM).
According to AWEM,...
EDF EN Canada Signs PPA With Ontario IESO For 60 MW Project
EDF EN Canada Inc., a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator...
Nordex Rakes In Turbine Orders For Turkish Wind Market
During the first quarter of the year, Nordex received three new orders for a total of more than 40 MW in Turkey.
The projects, for...
Northland Announces Project Milestone For 332 MW Nordsee One
Toronto, Ontario-based Northland Power Inc. says the installation of all 54 foundations, including monopiles and transition pieces, for the 332 MW Nordsee One offshore...
CanWEA: Alberta Budget Enables Province To Move Forward On Renewables Goal
In light of Alberta’s 2016 budget announcement, the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is applauding the province’s commitment to renewable energy.
Joe Ceci, Alberta’s finance...
Tokyo Developer Goes With Siemens’ Direct-Drive Wind Turbines
Siemens has secured its third wind turbine order from Tokyo-based developer Eurus Energy Holdings Corp.
For the 41.6 MW Eurus Higashi Yurihara onshore project -...
Innergex Completes Purchase Of Seven French Wind Farms
Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisition of seven operating wind power projects in France from German company wpd europe GmbH.
The...