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Vestas In Talks With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Regarding ‘Strategic Cooperation’
Vestas has confirmed that it is in talks with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) regarding a potential strategic cooperation. MHI has not confirmed or...
Recent Wind Industry Layoffs Likely To Have Long-Term Ramifications
The recent spate of wind industry layoffs could have significant long-term ramifications for research and development (R&D) and the quest to lower the...
Delaware Offshore Wind Project Gets Support From Members Of Congress
Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Chris Coons, D-Del., and Rep. John Carney, D-Del., have written to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven...
Cape Wind Planning Operations And Maintenance Center In Falmouth, Mass.
Cape Wind has signed a purchase and sales agreement for East Marine, a Falmouth, Mass.-based marina that will serve as an operations and...
Edison’s Broken Bow Wind Project Nears Completion
Edison Mission Group's (EMG) 80 MW Broken Bow Wind Project, located in Custer County, Neb., is nearing completion, Charley Parnell, the company's vice...
China Says U.S.’ Renewable Energy Incentives Break WTO Rules
The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) has ruled that six U.S. incentive programs for renewable energy violate agreed-upon...
Vestas Cuts More Jobs As PTC Uncertainty Casts Dark Shadow Over Wind Market
Just days after wind turbine manufacturer Vestas announced a round of layoffs at its Pueblo, Colo., tower manufacturing facility, the company has eliminated...
Clipper Windpower Lays Off 174 Employees
Just weeks after being sold by United Technologies Corp. (UTC) to private equity firm Platinum Equity, wind turbine manufacturer Clipper Windpower has laid...
juwi Wind Shutters Ohio Office, Looks Toward Canada
Developer juwi Wind has terminated the four remaining staffers at its Cleveland-based wind development office, officially completing a move that began in 2010,...
E.ON To Store Excess Wind Energy On Gas Grid To Avoid Curtailment
Germany-based energy provider E.ON has begun work on a pilot plant that will enable the power generated by wind farms to be stored...
How To Boost Offshore Wind Farms’ Energy Payback Ratio
The energy payback of offshore wind farms could be increased significantly if manufacturers were to utilize new methods of producing wind turbine towers...
Utility Seeking Permission To Shift Wind Project Risk To Developers, Curtail Wind Energy Generation
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (IPUC) is currently reviewing a case filed by utility Idaho Power that seeks to change the way prices...
Bloomberg: Vestas May Announce More Layoffs This Week
This Wednesday, Vestas will release its interim financial report for the second quarter, the company announced on its website. It is possible that...
Grid-Connected Wind Energy Capacity In China To Reach 100 GW By 2015
China has increased its on-grid wind power capacity by 87% annually over the last six years, and the country's grid-connected wind energy capacity...
NaturEner Redesigns Montana Wind Farm To Avoid Wildlife Impacts
NaturEner USA LLC, a San Francisco-based wind energy development company, and Montana Audubon are making major changes to the Rim Rock Wind Farm,...
Study Confirms PTC Uncertainty’s Impact On Wind Jobs, Reveals Top States For Clean Energy...
As many as 37,409 jobs could be created from the more than 70 major clean energy projects announced across the U.S. during the...
With Latest FAA Ruling, Is It Full Steam Ahead For Cape Wind?
The ongoing legal battles that have plagued the controversial Cape Wind project are one step closer to culmination, thanks to a ruling issued...
Ports See Surge In Wind Turbine Component Shipments
A rough economic climate and severe weather conditions have combined to slow some traditional trade at U.S. ports along the St. Lawrence Seaway...
Legal Battle Continues Over Ontario Offshore Wind Energy Moratorium
Attorneys for the Ontario government will seek to dismiss a legal action filed by Trillium Power Wind Corp. after the province canceled all...
Wind Energy Jobs, PTC Become Top White House Priorities
The U.S. wind energy industry is already painfully aware of the consequences stemming from a possible expiration of the production tax credit (PTC),...