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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...
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...
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...
Iberdrola To Use 5 MW Areva Wind Turbines For 400 MW Offshore Project
After a tender process, Iberdrola and Areva Wind have entered a preferred wind turbine supplier agreement for the Wikinger offshore wind project, which...
REpower Plunges Into Ontario Wind Market With New Manufacturing Plant
REpower Systems, a subsidiary of Suzlon Group, says it will build - or retrofit - a rotor-blade manufacturing facility in southern Ontario as...
Renewable Energy M&A Activity Stays Strong, But Deal Size Decreases
The number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the North American renewable energy sector grew by two-thirds year-over-year in 2011, but the...
Technological Improvements Expected To Lower Wind Turbine Gearbox Costs
Thanks mainly to an uptick in installations, the global market for wind turbine gearboxes increased from an estimated $3.2 billion in 2006 to...
Updated: AWEA’s Bode Resigns, Gramlich Named Interim CEO
Denise Bode, chief executive officer at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), will resign the post and return to private practice as a...
Report: U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Progress Expected To Be ‘Lackluster’ Through 2016
Offshore wind energy installations are expected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 44% between 2011 and 2016, with 18 GW of...
GDF SUEZ Sells Stake In C$2 Billion Renewable Energy Portfolio
GDF SUEZ has sold a 60% equity interest in its 680 MW Canadian renewable energy generation portfolio, which is valued in excess of...
Exelon Says AWEA’s Latest PTC Proposal Is “Completely Unacceptable”
Exelon Corp. called the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) latest plan on the production tax credit (PTC) 'completely unacceptable.' On Dec. 13, AWEA...