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Wind Gear Manufacturer Moventas Planning ‘Temporary Layoffs’
Wind and industrial gear manufacturer and service provider Moventas Gears Oy says it will issue 'temporary' layoffs next week in order to 'match...
Breaking: Congress Nearing Deal On One-Year Extension Of PTC
Legislators were reportedly closing in on a deal that would extend the expiring wind energy production tax credit (PTC) for one year. At...
From The PTC To The Election: The Year’s Top Wind Energy Stories
For the wind energy industry, 2012 has been filled with both exciting milestones and crushing policy uncertainty. Here are the NAW editors' picks...
Texas Breaks Another Wind Energy Integration Record
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) says it achieved a new wind power integration record of 8.638 GW on Dec. 25 at...
MidAmerican Renewables Brings 300 MW Of Wind Energy Projects Online
MidAmerican Wind, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Renewables, says it has completed the 168 MW Pinyon Pines Wind I project and the...
Renewable Energy Deployment Posts Strong Increase In U.K.
Renewable energy is powering forward in the U.K., according to the 2012 update to the Renewable Energy Roadmap, which was recently released by...
Sempra, BP Wind Energy Complete Hawaiian Wind Farm, Will Feature Energy Storage
Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy have announced that the 21 MW Auwahi Wind facility has entered commercial operation. The...
New York State Issues Massive Solicitation For Renewable Energy Projects
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) have released a long-anticipated call for...
Virginia Agency Seeking Lease For Offshore Wind Energy Research
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) says it has received an unsolicited request for a research...
What Do Americans Really Think About Wind Energy?
The clean energy industry faced several challenges this year, including the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the production tax credit for wind power...
Iowa Utility Issues RFP For 100 MW Of Wind Power
Alliant Energy Corporate Services Inc. (AECS) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) on behalf of Iowa-based Interstate Power and Light Co. for...
Report: Wind Turbine Installations To Decline Significantly In 2013
Over the past five years, installed wind power capacity in the U.S. has increased at an annualized rate of 27.8% to about 57.616...
Duke Energy Renewables Secures $220M In Financing For 402 MW Of Wind Energy Projects
Duke Energy Renewables and the North American Development Bank have signed two $110 million loans for the construction of the Los Vientos I...
Ontario Grid Upgrades To Help Balance Renewable Energy Intermittency
Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) has selected three new suppliers of regulation service, a grid-balancing function traditionally provided by generators. By helping...
UMass Receives Funding For Wind Energy Research
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has awarded a $260,000 grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell's Wind Energy Research Group. The...
GL Group, DNV To Merge
GL Group - a provider of classification, verification and engineering consulting services to the renewable energy, maritime and fossil-fuel industries - is merging...
Q3 Wind Speeds Were Below Average In North America
AWS Truepower LLC, a provider of renewable energy consulting and information services, has released its quarterly analytical Wind Trends Bulletins for Europe, India,...
WTO: Ontario’s Domestic-Content Requirements Breach International Trade Law
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that Ontario's domestic-content requirements - a key mechanism under the province's feed-in-tariff (FIT) program and one...
Commerce Department Issues Final Ruling In China Wind Tower Case
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has issued its final ruling in the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of Chinese and...
BOEM Decision Moves Statoil Closer To Building Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Off Maine Coast
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a finding of no competitive interest in an area...