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Jumbo Offshore to Handle T&I for Baltic Eagle Wind Project

Van Oord has contracted Jumbo Offshore for the transportation and installation (T&I) of transition pieces for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in the...

Dogger Bank Wind Sending First Power Onshore

The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank wind farm has started producing electricity for the first time, marking a major milestone in the evolution of the...

Offshore Wind Power Could Reach 250 GW by 2050, Research Suggests

According to research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), as much as 20% of regional power needs along the...

BLM Grants Nevada Federal Land for 600 MW Wind Power Project

The Bureau of Land Management has chipped off nearly 70,000 acres of public land in Nevada for the Stagecoach Wind Project, a planned 600...

TransAlta Wraps Up RNW Acquisition

TransAlta Corp., one of Canada's largest producers of wind power, and TransAlta Renewables Inc. have completed the acquisition of RNW. RNW will become a wholly...

Offshore WINDPOWER Heading to Atlantic City in 2024

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) has announced today that its next Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition will be held October 28-30, 2024, in...

New England States Agree to Jointly Pursue Up to 6 GW of Offshore Wind

Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut have announced New England’s first offshore wind multi-state memorandum of understanding, designed to create the means for a potential...

ENGIE Inks VPPA for Century Oak Wind Power Project

Ferguson and ENGIE North America have signed a 65 MW virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) from ENGIE’s Century Oak wind project, located in Callahan...

Avangrid Scrapping Park City Wind PPAs, Says Project is ‘Unfinanceable’

Investor-owned utility Avangrid Inc. is backing out of its power purchase agreements for the Park City Wind offshore project, an 804 MW development that...

One of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farms Nears Full Operation

Dutch King Willem-Alexander recently joined the board members of Vattenfall, BASF and Allianz to officially inaugurate the Hollandse Kust Zuid 1-4 offshore wind farm,...

Orsted Brings 200 MW Sunflower Wind Project Online

Renewable energy company Ørsted has begun operations at Sunflower Wind, a 200 MW wind farm located in Marion County, Kan.  Ørsted worked with Schneider Electric...

Peninsula Clean Energy to Take 220 MW of SunZia Wind Power

Peninsula Clean Energy, a community choice aggregation agency and the electricity provider for San Mateo County, Calif., and the City of Los Banos, Calif.,...

DOE Putting Funds Toward Long-Duration Energy Storage Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $325 million for 15 projects across 17 states and one tribal nation to accelerate...

Offshore Wind Presenting New Slew of Unique Challenges and Risks

In a new report, “A Turning Point for Offshore Wind,” renewable energy insurance specialist Allianz Commercial highlights growth opportunities, tech innovations, risk trends, and...

Scout Holds Blade-Signing Ceremony at Sweetland Wind Project

Scout Clean Energy, a Colorado-based renewable energy developer and owner/operator, recently celebrated the ongoing construction of the 200 MW Sweetland Wind Project with landowners,...

State Governors Seeking Federal Help for Offshore Wind Industry

A group of U.S. governors is calling on the Biden administration to help ease the “extraordinary economic challenges” that have combined to threaten not...

Rhode Island Energy Will Not Pursue Revolution Wind 2

Electric utility Rhode Island Energy has decided that it will not be moving forward on a long-term power purchase agreement with Orsted and Eversource...

Siemens Gamesa Introduces New Wind Turbine to Lineup

Siemens Gamesa has debuted its SG 4.4-164 onshore wind turbine: a high-capacity-factor machine that the company says was designed specifically for the United States. “With...

Moraine Sands Wind Project Obtains Construction Loan, Tax Equity

Cordelio Power, a renewable power producer focused on the U.S. and Canada, has closed a construction loan facility and tax equity commitment for the...

AES Wraps Up First Phase of 454 MW Arizona Wind Farm

Utility and power-generation company AES has initiated commercial operations for the first phase of the Chevelon Butte wind farm, located on the Chevelon Butte...

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