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Twelve States Produced 80% Of U.S. Wind Power In 2013, Says EIA Report
In 2013, 12 states accounted for 80% of U.S. wind-generated electricity, according to preliminary generation data released in the U.S. Energy Information Administration's...
Ontario Is Officially Coal-Free, Shuts Down Final Plant
Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating...
Samsung And Pattern Complete Ontario’s Largest Wind Project
Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. and Pattern Energy Group Inc. have flipped the switch on their 270 MW South Kent project in Ontario, making...
LM Wind Power Sees Revenue Drop In 2013, Cites Challenging Market
Danish blade manufacturer LM Wind Power experienced some financial declines in 2013, with full-year revenue reaching EUR 488 million versus EUR 687 million...
Houston METRO Offsetting Electricity Use With Renewable Energy
Retail electricity provider GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA has signed a deal to supply the Houston METRO with renewable energy certificates (RECs). Under...
CalWEA Says 50% Renewables Target In California Is Possible, Affordable
A recent study performed for California's five major utilities by the research firm Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) provides a roadmap for achieving...
IKEA Makes Its First U.S. Wind Farm Purchase In Illinois
Home furnishings retailer IKEA has announced its first U.S. wind farm investment with the purchase of the Hoopeston Wind project in Hoopeston, Ill....
Maine Regulators Order First Wind To Prove Financial Capacity
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has called on First Wind to prove it will still have the financial capacity to build...
AWEA Highlights U.S. Wind Success Stories Of 2013
As many expected, new U.S. wind installations took a massive dive in 2013. However, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has released its...
MAKE Expects North American Wind Market To Grow 207% YOY In 2014
The North American wind market will recover in 2014 after a lackluster performance in 2013 and grow 207% year-over-year (YOY), according to a...
Global Wind Power Market Poised To Rebound This Year, Install At Least 47 GW
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) says it expects new global wind installations to reach at least 47 GW this year, a dramatic...
Arizona Utility’s Long-Term Plan Calls For More Renewable Energy, Less Coal
Arizona-based utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) says it plans to meet customers' growing energy needs over the next 15 years by relying less...
Globalcon Conference In N.J. To Offset Power Consumption With Renewables
GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA has announced it will supply renewable energy certificates (RECs) to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) for the...
Senvion Boosts Financing Framework To EUR 850 Million
Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, has signed an agreement with a consortium of banks headed by BayernLB, Commerzbank...
Feds List New Bird Species As Threatened – Should Wind Developers Be Worried?
In response to a precipitous decline of the lesser prairie-chicken (LPC), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced on March 27 that...
Fishermen’s Energy Appeals BPU Decision To Deny Offshore Pilot
Fishermen's Energy has filed an appeal with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and wants the regulators to reconsider what the...
GE Turbine Blade Breaks At Indiana Wind Farm
On the night of April 2, a GE blade broke off at the Wildcat 1 wind farm in Indiana. E.ON Climate & Renewables...
Texas A&M University Wins $2.2M Award To Foster Offshore Wind
Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, has announced the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) is awarding $2.2 million to the Texas A&M University Wind Energy...
Wind Power Helps Significantly Cut U.S. Emissions In 2013
In 2013, the U.S. wind power fleet reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the power sector by 96 million metric tons, or 4.4%,...
AWEA Calls Recent Wind Energy Records ‘Transmission Success Stories’
Wind energy is breaking records across the U.S., thanks to long-needed transmission upgrades that are relieving congestion on the power grid and allowing...