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EDF Renewables, Pedernales Sign PPA for King Creek Wind Project

EDF Renewables North America and Pedernales Electric Cooperative Inc. (PEC), one of the largest distribution electric cooperatives in the U.S., have signed a 15-year...

Thousands of Miles of Scottish Coast Offer Huge Offshore Wind Potential

The Scottish government says the potential exists to deliver 11 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030, according to a recently released statement that...

Mid-Atlantic States Announce Major Offshore Wind Initiative

The governors of Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia have announced the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Regional Transformative Partnership for Offshore Wind Energy Resources (SMART-POWER): a...

Vestas Buying Out MHI’s Share of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind JV

Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) have signed an agreement in which Vestas will acquire MHI’s shares in the MHI...

Energy Company Increases Planning Visibility with Hive9 Software

Hive9, a provider of cloud-based marketing performance management software, has announced a significant improvement in marketing planning and financial management capabilities for a Fortune...

VCE: Wind, Solar Could Reliably Support Eastern U.S.

By enabling more transmission across the eastern U.S., there could be an almost entirely decarbonized electricity sector that employs 6 million more Americans and...

bp Wind Energy Selects Asset Management Technology Provider

bp Wind Energy has selected Power Factors LLC, an independent software and services provider for renewable energy, to provide the technical asset management platform...

Aker Offshore Wind, Aker BP Partner to Develop Norwegian Offshore Wind

Aker Offshore Wind and Aker BP have entered into a cooperation agreement aimed at accelerating the process of realizing offshore wind in Norway on...

Raimondo: Rhode Island Seeking 600 MW of Offshore Wind

Gov. Gina M. Raimondo says Rhode Island will pursue a competitive request for proposals (RFP) to procure up to 600 MW of new offshore...

Australian Regulator Approves DeTect Lighting System for Wind Farms

DeTect Inc. says Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority has accepted its HARRIER aircraft detection lighting system (ADLS) for use on Australian wind farms.  DeTect developed...

Woods Hole Group Partners with Developer on Current, Tidal Monitoring

Vineyard Wind says it is working with the Woods Hole Group, a local environmental contractor, to deploy current measuring and turbidity monitoring devices along...

Vineyard Wind Submits Bids to New York’s Second Offshore Solicitation

Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind development company, has submitted bids in response to New York’s second solicitation for offshore wind power.   Named Liberty Wind, the...

Offshore Wind Market for Jack-Up Interventions on the Rise

The offshore wind market for O&M jack-up interventions has changed rapidly. In just two years, the total number of jack-up interventions had doubled, from...

GE Renewable Energy Upgrades the Haliade-X Wind Turbine

GE Renewable Energy says its Haliade-X prototype, one of the world’s most powerful wind turbines operating to date, has been optimized and is now...

Orsted Offshore North America Names New CEO

Ørsted has named David Hardy as its new CEO for Ørsted Offshore North America.  Hardy will immediately replace Thomas Brostrøm, stepping into this position after...

Renewables on the Rise: Wind Power Triples in a Decade

In 2019, the U.S. produced over 30 times more solar power and more than triple the amount of wind energy than it did in...

Equinor Submits Bids to New York’s Second Offshore Wind Solicitation

Equinor, a European energy company, has submitted bids into New York’s second offshore wind solicitation.  Equinor submitted its proposals to the New York State Energy...

TGE, CIP Achieve Commercial Operation of Bearkat II

Tri Global Energy (TGE), an independent renewable energy originator and developer, says project owner and partner, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a fund management company,...

SGRE Tests, Approves New Wind Lidar Technology from ZX Lidars

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) says it has tested and approved a nacelle-based wind lidar, the ZX TM, a new technology from ZX Lidars. Based...

TransAlta Renewables’ WindCharger Reaches Commercial Operation

TransAlta Renewables Inc., a publicly traded renewable independent power producer, says its 10 MW WindCharger battery storage project has reached commercial operation.  WindCharger is Alberta's...

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