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MHI Vestas Equips Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farm

MHI Vestas, a 50:50 joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems A/S  and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has installed the first V164 9.5 MW turbine, one...

Goldwind Americas Sells Central Texas Wind Project

Goldwind Americas is selling the 160 MW Rattlesnake Wind Project in McCulloch County, Texas, to an investment company advised by Exus Management Partners, an...

Diamond WTG Engineering & Services Appoints Tallman President, CEO

Diamond WTG Engineering & Services Inc. has appointed Mark Tallman president and CEO. He succeeds Harm Toren, who led Diamond for the past five...

EDPR, ENGIE Partner to Form OW North America

EDP Renewables and ENGIE have combined their existing and planned offshore wind efforts to form a new company, Ocean Winds (OW). After launching OW...

Coastwise Offshore Services, Next Generation Shipyards Sign Contract for Offshore Wind Vessel

Coastwise Offshore Services, a shipping company that specializes in offshore wind, and Next Generation Shipyard have signed a second contract for the building of...

Hectate Signs Agreement with Eos to Provide Energy Storage Projects

Eos Energy Storage LLC, a manufacturer of zinc battery storage systems, has signed a broad-ranging agreement to provide over 1 GWh of energy storage...

Ferrovial Selected to Manufacture, Assemble SATH Floating Platform

Ferrovial, a global infrastructure operator, has been selected for the manufacturing and assembly of the SATH floating platform in the DemoSATH project, led by...

KKR Signs Agreements to Acquire Utility-Scale Wind Portfolio

KKR, a global investment firm, has signed agreements with NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc., and NextEra Energy Partners LP...

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...

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