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Investor Takes Stake in Prairie Breeze II and III Wind Farms

Excelsior Energy Capital, an independent North American renewable energy investor, says its North American Renewable Energy Fund has acquired 90.1% of Invenergy’s sponsor equity interests in...

Tenaska Secures Funding for Nobles 2 Wind Farm

Independent energy company Tenaska closed $158 million in commercial financing for the Nobles 2 wind project, which is under construction in Nobles County in...

Testing to Begin on Haliade-X 12MW Wind Blade

GE Renewable Energy and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) have welcomed a 107-meter blade that will undergo a series of fatigue tests at MassCEC’s Wind...

Port of Duluth Has Record Year for Wind Power Cargo

The Port of Duluth, Minn., says 306,000 freight tons of wind energy cargo moved through its hands in 2019, setting a single-season record. The previous...

Nordex Fabricates Concrete Wind Tower Number 1,000

The Nordex Group says the company recently manufactured its 1,000th concrete tower for its own turbines: a journey that began 13 years ago with...

Pattern Energy Being Acquired

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is acquiring Pattern Energy Group Inc., a large independent power company that owns a portfolio of 28 renewable...

Wind Power O&M Expenditures Set to Boom

According to a new report by IHS Markit, U.S. wind power operations and maintenance (O&M) annual spending is expected to increase to more than...

25 MW Floating Offshore Wind Development Coming Online

The Windplus consortium, which is jointly owned by EDP Renováveis, ENGIE, Repsol and Principle Power Inc., is installing the largest floating wind turbine in the world:...

Spark Power Buys Wind O&M, Construction Services Firm

Spark Power Group Inc. has acquired One Wind Services Inc. and One Wind Services (US) Inc., which specialize in delivering operations and maintenance (O&M)...

Siemens Gamesa Goes with Infosys for IT Transformation

Wind power technology and services firm Siemens Gamesa says Infosys, a global provider of digital services and consulting, will provide the company with end-to-end...

MHI Vestas Selected for Floating Offshore Wind Farm

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will be the wind turbine supplier for the floating Groix...

CPA Scooping 300 MW from New Arizona Wind Project

Clean Power Alliance (CPA), a retail electricity provider operating in Southern California, has signed a power purchase agreement for 300 MW of output from the White...

EDF Using Siemens Gamesa Turbines in Texas, New Mexico Projects

EDF Renewables North America has selected Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy to supply turbines for the Coyote and Oso Grande projects in the U.S. The Coyote...

Black & Veatch Attains EPC Contract from Capital Power

Capital Power, a North American independent power producer, has chosen Black & Veatch to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the new...

AEP Continues Aggressive Renewables Expansion with Sempra Acquisition

American Electric Power says its competitive renewable energy subsidiary, AEP Clean Energy Resources, has completed the purchase of Sempra Renewables LLC and its 724...

Xcel Energy Boosting Wind Portfolio in Upper Midwest

Xcel Energy has finalized its purchase of the 200 MW Blazing Star 2 wind project in southwest Minnesota and the 300 MW Dakota Range...
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IPF19: N.J. Governor Prodding Offshore Wind

This week at the Business Network for Offshore Wind's International Partnering Forum (IPF), New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy sounded off about the state’s vast...

New OCA Lead Consultant Makes the U.S.-Europe Connection

Michael J. Saint James has been appointed lead consultant for offshore operations with Offshore Construction Associates (OCA), an engineering and management consultancy firm that...

Capstone Infrastructure Acquires Watford Wind Facility

Capstone Infrastructure Corp., a company that owns and operates more than 500 MW of wind, hydro, solar, biomass and natural gas power across Canada, is acquiring...

EDF Places Copenhagen Wind Project Into Service

EDF Renewables North America says the 80 MW Copenhagen Wind Project, located in Lewis and Jefferson counties in upstate New York, is fully operational...

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