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Acciona Announces Layoffs At Iowa Plant
Acciona Windpower, a subsidiary of Spain-based Acciona Energy, has initiated a reduction in force of 65 employees to scale the workforce to the...
Schwarzenegger Launches the California Green Corps
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., has launched the California Green Corps. Building up communities and the state's green workforce, the California Green Corps will...
Siemens Introduces New Wind Turbine
Siemens Energy has introduced the SWT-2.3-101, which is ideally suited to sites with low to medium wind speeds, according to the company. With...
RGGI Releases Result Of Latest Auction
The states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have announced the results of the third auction for RGGI carbon dioxide (CO2)...
NaiKun Wind Plans To Submit EA Certificate
Vancouver, British Columbia-based NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. held its annual general meeting and re-elected the following members of the company's board of...
3TIER Introduces Next-Generation Wind Assessment
Seattle-based 3TIER has launched its Portfolio Climate Variability Analysis (Portfolio CVA) in response to wind energy developers with large networks of met towers...
DOE Provides First New Loan Construction Loan Guarantee To Solar Manufacturer
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has offered a $535 million loan guarantee to Fremont, Calif.-based Solyndra Inc. to support the company's construction of...
ITC Great Plains Receives Rate, Incentive Approvals
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved a rate for ITC Great Plains transmission facilities in Kansas and elsewhere in the Southwest...
TVIG Completes Texas Wind Project
The Tennessee Valley Infrastructure Group Inc. (TVIG), a construction general contractor that builds wind projects, has completed construction of the 258 MW Panther...
Horizon Selects Bowen As BOP Contractor
Horizon Wind Energy has selected Indianapolis-based Bowen Engineering as the balance of plant (BOP) contractor for the Meadow Lake wind farm in White...
Finavera Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Finavera Renewables Inc. has announced a non-brokered private placement consisting of 10.5 million units at a price of C$0.05 per...
GE Energy Launches Service Optimizing Wind Turbine Layout
GE Energy has introduced WindLAYOUT, which provides an opportunity to improve the economics of a wind plant through optimization of wind turbine layout....
Adapters Link Onset Weather Stations To RM Young Sensors
Bourne, Mass.-based Onset Computer Corp. has introduced a line of new wind sensor adapters for connecting the company's research-grade weather stations to RM...
Nordic Windpower Appoints Tom Carbone As CEO
Thomas M. Carbone has been appointed CEO for Berkeley, Calif.-based Nordic Windpower Ltd. He is the former president of the Americas division of...
Laser Wind Sensor To Be Used At Nebraska Wind Farm
Manassas, Va.-based Catch the Wind Ltd.'s Vindicator laser wind sensor (LWS) will be used by the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) as part...
DOI, FERC Join On Offshore Renewable Energy Development
In a joint statement, Ken Salazar, secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), and Jon Wellinghoff, acting chairman of the Federal Energy...
Hawaii Wants To Bring Wind To Big Island
Gov. Linda Lingle, R-Hawaii, Castle & Cooke, First Wind Hawaii and Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) have announced an agreement that could allow large...
Idaho PUC Updates Rates For Renewable Energy Projects
Developers of qualifying renewable projects with a capacity of less than 10 MW will be paid considerably more for their generation as a...
Palo Alto RFP
The city of Palo Alto has issued a request for proposals (RFP) from qualified firms to provide electric power generated by new renewable...
AMSC Receives Order From California Utility
Devens, Mass.-based American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC), has received an order from Southern California Edison (SCE) for its pad-mounted distribution Static VAR Compensator (dSVC)...