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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.
PNM Acquiring Transmission Project To Support New Mexico Wind
PNM, a wholly owned New Mexico utility subsidiary of PNM Resources, has announced an agreement with an affiliate of Pattern Energy Group 2 LP...
Ball Corp. Signs 388 MW Wind, Solar Deals
Ball Corp., a global packaging solutions company, has executed two virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) – one wind and one solar – for 388...
Connecticut Lays Out Plans For Offshore Wind Hub
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced a new development plan that aims to establish New London, Conn., as a central hub in New England...
Siemens Gamesa Scores 194 MW Canadian Deal
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has signed a contract to supply and commission 43 SG 4.5-145 wind turbines, with a flexible rating of up...
Duke Energy Selling Wind And Solar Interests To John Hancock
Duke Energy has entered into a definitive agreement to sell a minority interest in a portion of its commercial renewable energy portfolio to the...
Kennecott Retiring Utah Coal Plant, Moving Toward RECs
After 75 years of operation, mining company Rio Tinto Kennecott is retiring the Utah Power Plant, a coal facility located in Magna, Utah.
Following regulatory...
Vineyard Wind Selects Technical Advisor
Wood PLC has been awarded a technical advisor role for the Vineyard Wind offshore project, to be located off the coast of Martha's Vineyard...
Revolution Wind Awards Contract To Australia’s Worley
Australia-based Worley has been awarded a contract for the Revolution Wind offshore project.
Worley will complete the engineering and design of two offshore wind...
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind Cuts Installation Time In Half
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind recently installed turbines at its latest project in half the time it took for the Burbo Bank Extension project.
The...
AdBM, Van Oord Demo Noise Mitigation System For Offshore Wind
AdBm Technologies, working with Van Oord, has successfully demonstrated the new AdBm noise mitigation system (NMS), which can be used for offshore wind applications....
AEP Seeks Wind And Solar Proposals In PJM
AEP Energy Partners (AEPEP), a subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power Co., is seeking proposals for off-take from new solar and new or...
Ørsted US Offshore Wind, Eversource Pledge $4.5M For Rhode Island
Ørsted US Offshore Wind and Eversource – the team behind the Revolution Wind offshore project – have pledged $4.5 million to support offshore wind...
Maine Climate Council Would Lead State’s 100% Renewable Energy Efforts
Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, has introduced bipartisan legislation to create the Maine Climate Council, which would develop an action plan and timetable for meeting...
Report Ranks Companies On Reputation In U.S. Renewables Industry
Tamarindo Communications, a strategic communications advisory for the renewable energy industry, has launched the second North American edition of its Renewables Reputation Index, a...
MidAmerican Hits New Wind Generation Record In Iowa
MidAmerican Energy Co. recently set a new one-day wind generation record in Iowa for generating electricity, the company claims.
On April 10, wind farms...
URI Students Create Device For Detecting Marine Life Near Block Island Wind Farm
Six ocean engineering students at the University of Rhode Island (URI) have developed an acoustic device that detects the sounds made by whales and...
Clean Energy Groups Throw Weight Behind Wisconsin Transmission Line
On Friday, direct testimony was filed with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) in the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line case (Case # 5-CE-146).
A...
U.S. Has Nearly 40 GW Of Wind Under Development
A burst of new wind farm announcements in the first quarter of 2019 propelled the total volume of U.S. wind power construction and development...
General Mills Using Wind to Power All Owned U.S. Facilities
General Mills has signed a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement with Roaring Fork Wind LLC, a joint venture partnership between RES and Steelhead Americas,...
Wind O&M Provider Diamond Receives Warm Welcome At New Portland Base
Wind turbine operations and maintenance company Diamond WTG Engineering & Services Inc., a division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has relocated its headquarters...