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PG&E Receives Record Number Of Renewable Energy Proposals

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has announced that its 2011 solicitation for new supplies of renewable energy brought in more than 300...

Study: Michigan’s Renewable Energy Industry Has Big Potential To Help Economy

A new trade group has been created to focus on growing Michigan's advanced and renewable energy industry. The group, called the Energy Innovation...

Report: Global Small-Wind Market To Double Between 2010 And 2015

Consumer demand for distributed renewable energy generation is driving growth in the small-wind power market, thanks to increased government incentives, the desire for...

AWS Truepower Joins International Group To Help Improve Wind Turbine Wake Models

AWS Truepower LLC, a provider of renewable energy consulting and information services, has joined a model inter-comparison task from the International Energy Agency...

Majority Of Energy-Storage Company’s Assets To Be Acquired By Private-Equity Firm

Rockland Capital, a private-equity firm focused on energy-related investments, says it will acquire most of Beacon Power Corp.'s assets, including the company's 20...

Maine Agencies Sign Deal For Wind Turbine Sound Assessment And Analysis

Maine's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) have awarded environmental consulting firm HMMH a four-year, on-call contract to...

Wind Energy Technicians Get Their Own Reality TV Show

Wind turbine workers will be featured in an upcoming TV show: The Weather Channel's new program, 'Turbine Cowboys,' follows workers who risk their...

National Lab Signs Agreement With Navajo Nation To Collaborate On Energy Development

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Navajo Nation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on energy in areas including...

Funding Available For U.S.-Israel Renewable Energy R&D Cooperation

BIRD Energy, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, has issued a...

EPA Names Top Renewable Energy Users

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a list of the organizations that are using the most renewable energy to power their...

Wind Power Now Represents 5% Of California’s Electricity Generation

Wind energy now supplies 5% of California's total electricity needs, with a total wind generation capacity of 3.927 GW, the California Wind Energy...

Element Power Raises $183 Million Co-Investment

Element Power, a developer, owner and manager of wind and solar power projects, says it has closed its co-investment fundraising process, raising an...

U.S., Mexico Sign Agreement To Collaborate On Clean Energy, Climate Change Initiatives

The U.S. and Mexican governments have signed a technical collaboration agreement on sustainability and climate change whereby both nations will implement the Binational...

Gamesa Sees Sizable U.S. Demand For Its New Wind Turbine

U.S. customers represented 26.4% of Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa's total orders for its new G97-2.0 MW turbines in the second half of...

National Wind To Present Avian/Bat Protection Plan To Minnesota PUC

On Feb. 16, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will hear National Wind's plan to protect avian and bat species at the proposed...

Companies Partner On Wind Data Collection And Automation

Atmospheric Systems Corp. (ASC) and Vista Engineering have formed a partnership designed to streamline wind instrumentation data for end users. Under the agreement,...

Mita-Teknik Moves U.S. Offices

Mita-Teknik - which has offices in Denmark, Ukraine, China, India and the U.S. - has announced it is moving its U.S. location from...

Algonquin Withdraws From First Wind Investment

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (APUC) says it will not proceed with the previously announced investment in First Wind Holdings LLC's wind portfolio...

Shear Wind Terminates Willow Ridge Agreement

Halifax, Nova Scotia-based developer Shear Wind reports that it no longer plans to sell the Willow Ridge wind farm to UEG-Green Energy Solutions/Alberta...

Quebec Funding Initiative Aids Techeol

Quebec-based Techeol will use funding from the Canadian government to acquire additional equipment for its wind turbine maintenance and repair business. According to...

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