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U.S. Loses 594,300 Clean Energy Jobs

Nearly 600,000 U.S. clean energy workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic after 447,208 new workers filed unemployment claims...

EDR Selected as Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Consultant

EDR has been selected as the lead environmental permitting consultant for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind. The proposed offshore wind project will contribute to meeting...

Chartwell, BAR Partner on Offshore Wind Vessels

Chartwell Marine has entered a partnership with BAR Technologies to support the delivery of the next generation of offshore wind crew transfer vessels (CTVs). The...

Orsted Hires New Mid-Atlantic Marine Affairs Manager

Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind has hired Elizabeth Kretovic to serve as its Mid-Atlantic marine affairs manager.  Kretovic recently retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Vestas Appoints New CTO, COO

Vestas has appointed Anders Nielsen its new executive vice president and CTO, taking over for Anders Vedel, who will continue in a role as...

Wind Power Can Drive the Post COVID-19 Economy

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), along with signatories representing all the major wind industry corporations and associations across the world, have released a...

U.S. Wind Industry Sets Construction Record in First Quarter

The U.S. wind industry installed over 1,800 MW of new wind power capacity in the first quarter, while the volume of projects under construction...

CRES Advocates for Clean Energy

To preserve and grow the U.S. workforce and economy following the devastating impact of COVID-19, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) has delivered to...

Siemens Gamesa Acquires Ria Blades’ Turbine Production Plant

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has finalized the acquisition of all shares in Ria Blades S.A., the business entity that owns and operates the onshore...

France Sets Ambitious Offshore Goals

France’s ambition to increase electricity production from renewable energy sources will make the country Europe’s fourth-largest offshore wind power producer in 2030, with 7.4...

Purdue University Conducting 3D-Printed Concrete Research

Purdue University engineers are conducting research on a way to make offshore wind turbine parts out of 3D-printed concrete, a less expensive material that...

Port of Vancouver USA to Receive Wind Blade Shipment

The Port of Vancouver USA will receive a shipment of nine wind turbines, including the longest wind turbine blades it has handled to date....

Offshore Wind Conference Goes 100 Virtual

The Business Network for Offshore Wind says it will convert its flagship annual International Partnering Forum (IPF) into a series of livestream events from...

NorthWestern Issues RFP for Montana Renewable Projects

NorthWestern Energy has issued a Community Renewable Energy Project (CREP) request for proposals (RFP) seeking additional small renewable generation owned or developed by Montana...

Dominion Energy Virginia Adds Wind to Long-Term IRP

In just one year, Dominion Energy Virginia has quadrupled the amount of solar and wind generation in its 15-year, long-term integrated resource plan (IRP)....

IEA: COVID-19 Shocks the Global Energy System

The Covid-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades, with the drop in demand this year...

East Coast, West Coast: Very Different Offshore Wind Industries

In order for many states to fulfill the goals they set to significantly reduce emissions or reach complete carbon neutrality by 2050, they will...

AVANGRID Expands Wind Generation in 2019

In 2019, Avangrid Renewables, the third-largest U.S. wind operator, commissioned 831 MW of new wind projects and prepared for the construction of 700 MW...

BNEF: Onshore Wind is Cheapest Source of New-Build Generation

Solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population. Those two-thirds live...

Mortenson Begins Turbine Construction at King Plains Wind Project

Mortenson has started turbine erection work on the 248.2 MW King Plains Wind Project located in Garber, Okla., for ENGIE North America.  The project will...

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