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Firms Build More Service Boats To Meet Demand For U.K. Offshore Wind Installations
To meet growing demand for service vessels in the U.K. offshore wind market, Alicat Workboats and South Boats IOW have manufactured and built...
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Tout Health Benefits Of Solar And Wind In Eastern U.S.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have concluded that Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania are the best U.S. sites for solar and wind...
FIT Fallout Continues: Ontario Amends Contract With Korean Consortium
Two weeks after it announced the elimination of the feed-in tariff (FIT) for large-scale wind projects, the Ontario government continues to pare back...
DNV Releases Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Standards
To help accelerate the development of floating offshore wind turbines, DNV KEMA has developed design requirements for floating structures and related systems. According...
WindMade Announces Consumer Product Label
WindMade, a nonprofit organization founded in 2011, has launched a global consumer label for products made with wind energy. According to the organization,...
Enel Green Power Signs $100M Loan To Fund Mexican Investments
Enel Green Power (EGP), through its subsidiary Inelec, has concluded an agreement with Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Bancomer for a $100 million loan...
Minnesota PUC Puts Foot Down On Delayed Wind Project
New Wind Era, developer of a long-delayed wind farm in Goodhue County, Minn., has been ordered to either prove it will begin construction...
NREL Announces New Energy Systems Integration Facility
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has announced the 182,500-square-foot Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF), a facility to help both public- and private-sector...
Michigan Utility Buys 62 Wind Turbines From GE
Michigan-based utility Consumers Energy has signed a contract with GE to supply 62 1.7-MW wind turbines for the Cross Winds Energy Park. Located...
Vestas Sells Two Wind Farms For EUR 127 Million
Vestas has entered into an agreement to sell two wind projects to LUKERG Renew, a joint venture company of Russia-based Lukoil and Italy-based...
AWEA Releases Report On Wind Farm O&M Practices
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has published a report on recommended operations, maintenance and reliability practices for modern wind turbines and projects....
Hawaiian Electric Asks To Speed Up Purchase Of Renewable Energy
Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) says it has asked the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to waive a competitive-bid requirement in order to quickly negotiate...
Clean Line Issues RFI To Wind Power Generators In Great Plains
Plains & Eastern Clean Line LLC, an affiliate of Clean Line Energy Partners LLC, has issued a request for information (RFI) to wind...
New Global Alliance Calls For 100% Renewable Energy Targets
Members of a newly launched alliance, among them the World Future Council, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and World Wind Energy...
Port Operator: U.S. Wind Market Beginning To Resurrect Following PTC Extension
The late extension of the production tax credit (PTC) has certainly crimped wind development activity this year. However, Washington-based Port of Vancouver USA...
Now On Tour: GE’s Largest Wind Turbine Blade
GE is sending a blade from its new 2.5-120 wind turbine on a tour across Germany. At 60 meters in length, the blade...
Big Growth Expected For Virtual Power Plants
Annual worldwide revenue from virtual power plants (VPPs) will grow from less than $1 billion this year to $3.6 billion in 2020, according...
Law Firms Husch Blackwell And Brown McCarroll Join Forces
Husch Blackwell LLP and Brown McCarroll LLP have announced they will merge and move forward together in all markets as Husch Blackwell LLP....
U.K. Offshore Wind Produced 7.5 TWh In 2012
The U.K.'s total output from offshore wind farms in 2012 was 7.5 TWh, finds a new report from The Crown Estate. Other highlights...
Finavera Shareholders Sign Off On Wind Farm Sales
Vancouver-based developer Finavera Wind Energy Inc. reports that its shareholders have overwhelmingly voted in favor to authorize the sale of the company's interest...