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Vestas Appoints Medina President of Vestas North America

Eduardo Medina, currently president of Vestas Mediterranean, has been appointed president of Vestas North America.  Simultaneously, Javier Rodriguez Diez, currently senior vice president of global...

MYR Group Awarded Contract for Transmission Upgrade Project

MYR Group Inc., a holding company of specialty contractors serving the electrical infrastructure market in the U.S. and western Canada, has executed a contract...

RPMA Signs PPA with CIPCO

RPM Access LLC (RPMA), an independent Iowa wind developer, has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO), a...

North Carolina Hires BVG Associates to Assess Offshore Wind Potential

The North Carolina Department of Commerce has identified and hired an international consulting company to help the agency assess North Carolina’s potential as an...

Equinor Enters Agreement to Sell East Coast Wind Assets

Equinor has entered into an agreement with BP to sell 50% of its non-operated interests in the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind assets on...

NJBPU Opens Application Window for Second Solicitation of Offshore Wind

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has voted unanimously to open the application window for the state’s second solicitation of offshore wind...

Companies Jointly Pursuing Japanese Offshore Wind

Equinor, an offshore wind developer, Jera and J-Power have entered a joint bid agreement prior to Japan’s upcoming Round 1 offshore wind auction. The three...

Akuo-Led Consortium Completes Financing of Illinois Wind Farm

A consortium led by Akuo and composed of Harrison Street, Morgan Stanley and GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS) has reached the financial close...

TeamViewer Expands Predictive Maintenance Solution

TeamViewer, a provider of secure remote connectivity solutions, says it now offers a way to use artificial intelligence (AI) in maintenance.  Until now, TeamViewer customers...

IEEE, Utilities Collaborate on DER Interconnection Credentialing Program

IEEE, a technical professional organization, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) have unveiled the IEEE Std 1547-2018 Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Interconnection Commissioning:...

Siemens Gamesa, Acteon Partner to Provide CVOW O&M Package

Siemens Gamesa, an offshore wind turbine manufacturer and operations and maintenance (O&M) provider, has entered into an agreement with Acteon, a marine and subsea...

Atlantic Shores Opens the ECO Center in Atlantic City

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50/50 partnership between Shell New Energies U.S. LLC and EDF Renewables North America, has hosted members of the New...

Boskalis Installing Floating Wind Turbines

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., a Dutch dredging and heavylift company, has been awarded a contract to transport and install five floating wind turbines for...

SGRE Awarded Two Onshore Wind Project Sites in Texas

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been awarded two new onshore wind project sites in the state of Texas with a total installed capacity...

Dominion Selects Huisman to Fabricate Offshore Wind Installation Vessel

Dominion Energy has selected the global firm Huisman to fabricate the crane to be used on the U.S.’s first Jones Act compliant offshore wind...

EnerVenue Launches with Seed Funding

EnerVenue, a company that specializes in metal-hydrogen batteries, has launched with $12 million in seed funding.  The investment enables EnerVenue to accelerate the development of...

Invenergy Planning on Increasing Wind Capacity in Kansas, Missouri

Invenergy Transmission, the owner and developer of the Grain Belt Express transmission line project, says it is planning to increase local clean energy access...

MacGregor to Deliver Mission-Critical System to Alfa Lift

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received a significant order for delivery of the mission-critical system to be installed on the OHT offshore wind foundation...

RESET Launches Advanced Testing Simulator for Wind Turbines

RESET, a technology repair and support company, has debuted a testing simulator for wind turbine multi-purpose remote controllers (MRCs).  RESET’s Turbine Re-Gen Simulator provides remote...

Odfjell Drilling Invests in Oceanwind AS

Odfjell Drilling has invested in Oceanwind AS, an organization focused on owning and operating harsh-environment floating offshore wind turbines.  With almost 50 years of offshore...

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