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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.
Clean Line Takes Illinois Wind Transmission Project Dismissal To Court
Clean Line Energy, along with a number of other entities, is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to appeal a decision that reversed the approval of the 500-mile Rock Island Clean Line.
Governors To Obama: Steps We Need To Take To Grow U.S. Wind
In a letter to President Barack Obama, a bipartisan group of 20 governors has taken action to expedite the siting of new wind farms,...
U.S. Wind Developer Noble Environmental Power Files For Bankruptcy
Essex, Conn.-based Noble Environmental Power LLC (NEP), a renewable energy company that owns and operates 726 MW of wind projects in New York and...
Los Angeles Takes ‘Enormous Step’ Toward 100 Percent Renewables
The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously approved a measure that instructs the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to chart a...
Bird Concerns Lead To Denial Of Saskatchewan Wind Farm
Citing the protection of migratory birds, Scott Moe, Saskatchewan’s environment minister, has announced that a wind project near Chaplin will not be approved to...
Gamesa Nears Shareholder Approval For Big Siemens Merger
Gamesa’s board of directors has called an extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting, which the company says is needed to finally approve its merger with Siemens’...
Enel Lands $500 Million For 400 MW Cimarron Bend Wind Farm
Enel Green Power North America Inc. (EGPNA), acting through its subsidiary Cimarron Bend Wind Holdings LLC, has signed a tax equity agreement worth approximately...
American Wind Action Kicks Off Kansas Campaign
American Wind Action (AWA), an independent and bipartisan group, has planned a highly targeted, six-figure broadcast and cable TV buy - in addition to...
What Can Energy Storage Do For Massachusetts?
Massachusetts' Baker-Polito administration has released a new report, “State of Charge,” detailing the value of deploying energy storage in Massachusetts and a road map of...
Inauguration Day For Quebec’s Frampton Community Wind Farm
Boralex Inc., along with Quebec’s Municipality of Frampton, has inaugurated the 24 MW Frampton community wind farm.
Yesterday’s ceremony was attended by Andre Spenard, member...
Statoil Digs Deeper Into U.K. Offshore Wind Projects
Statoil and Statkraft have signed a letter of intent for Statoil to take over as operator of the U.K.’s Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm...
Federal Agencies Unveil New Strategy To Spur U.S. Offshore Wind
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Interior (DOI) have released a publication on a collaborative, strategic plan to continue accelerating the...
California’s Freshly Signed Bills Put Climate Change Plans Into Action
Ten years after the state adopted the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., has now strengthened the legislation’s commitment...
Expect Good Things From The U.S. Energy Storage Industry This Year
According to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor, a quarterly publication from GTM Research and the Energy Storage Association (ESA), the U.S. deployed 41.2...
BOEM Invites Public To Renewables Task Force Meeting In Va.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is inviting the public to its Virginia Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting, taking place on...
Westar, Great Plains Energy Merger Backed By Kansas City Group
The Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) has announced regional support for Great Plains Energy Inc. - the parent company of Kansas City Power...
Xcel Energy Reaches Settlement On 600 MW Rush Creek
Minneapolis-headquartered Xcel Energy and multiple parties have agreed to a settlement that would allow Xcel to build, own and operate the 600 MW Rush...
Statkraft Brings I-RECs To Brazil In Support Of Renewables Development
Norway-based clean energy generator Statkraft is now offering renewable power tracked by international renewable energy certificates (I-RECs) in Brazil.
The certificates will be backed by...
Power System For 900 MW Triton Knoll Grabs Federal Consent
The U.K.’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has given development consent for the Triton Knoll Electrical System, which will transmit energy generated...
Hitachi To Roll Out Two 5.2 MW Offshore Turbines
Tokyo-based Hitachi Ltd. has developed a 5.2 MW offshore wind turbine, the HTW5.2-136, designed to increase output in light-wind regions that have annual average...