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Study Provides New York A Road Map For Cutting Offshore Wind Costs

A new study offers a road map of key strategic steps New York State can take to reduce the costs of offshore wind...

Gamesa, Areva Form Joint Offshore Wind Venture

Gamesa and Areva have jointly formed Adwen, an offshore wind company that seeks to combine the expertise and track records of the two...

NYISO: New York Wind Sets New Record

Electricity generated by wind power in New York reached a new record at the start of March, according to the New York Independent...

Presidential Hopeful Bush Supports PTC Phaseout

Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush told an Iowa crowd over the weekend that he supports phasing out the production tax credit (PTC). The former...

Siemens Named Top Wind Turbine OEM For 2014: MAKE Report

Siemens and GE have obtained the top two spots on MAKE's Global Wind Turbine OEM 2014 Market Share analysis. According to MAKE, multi-industrial...

Full-Speed Ahead: Deepwater Wind Gives Alstom Notice To Proceed

Alstom has received the formal notice to proceed (NTP) from Deepwater Wind for the construction of five Haliade 150 6 MW offshore wind...

U.S. Wind Generated 4% Of All Electricity In 2014

U.S.-based wind power added significantly more new electricity than any other resource in 2014, according to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) data. Wind...

ACCIONA Opens Concrete Tower Plant In Mexico

ACCIONA Windpower has opened a plant in Mexico to produce concrete towers for wind turbines. The plant, located near Monterrey, produces concrete segments...

SunEdison Buys Energy Storage Firm, Complementary To Renewable Technologies

Fresh off its acquisition of First Wind, SunEdison has purchased the assets and project pipeline of Philadelphia-based Solar Grid Storage. The deal is...

New York Seeks To Overhaul Energy Market

New York is seeking to redefine the roles of electric utilities and change the regulatory framework to facilitate much larger use of distributed...

Slow Turning: What’s Stopping Individual Blade Pitch Control From Wider Acceptance?

In recent years, there has been a slow shift from collective pitch control (adjusting the blade angles on all three blades equally at...

U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center Addresses Energy-Water Nexus

In what could be an opportunity for wind power, the U.S. and China have agreed to extend their partnership on the energy-water nexus....

Mercom Charts The Top Global Wind Deals Of 2014

Last year, total global funding into the wind sector reached $31.7 billion, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group. This includes venture...

Pennsylvania’s Wolf Proposes Big Renewables Investment

Gov. Tom Wolf, D-Pa., proposed big investments in clean energy, such as wind and solar, in his 2015-2016 state budget proposal. Wolf's budget...

U.S. And Benin Seek Information On Clean Energy Projects

The government of the U.S., through the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), is working on a compact with the government of Benin to develop...

Deepwater Hits Financial Close For Block Island Wind Farm, Expects Summer Construction

In a first for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, Providence, R.I.-based Deepwater Wind has reached financial close for the 30 MW Block...

Availon Continues To Increase Turbine Service Offerings

Although Availon is widely known for its experience in servicing GE wind turbines, the operations and maintenance (O&M) services provider continues to add...

Turbine Makers Investing In Blade-Related Innovations

As the wind turbine manufacturing industry has matured, blades have become a strong area of strategic product innovation and sourcing shifts, according to...

Increased Electricity Sales, Expanded Development Pipeline Sustain Pattern Energy

Wind developer Pattern Energy reported an increase in megawatt-hours sold, while unrealized losses on interest rate and energy derivatives impacted its bottom line,...

Hundreds Rally On Boston Common In Support Of Cape Wind

On Feb. 28, more than 300 people braved the freezing temperatures at Massachusetts' Boston Common in support of the embattled Cape Wind offshore...

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