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Martifer-Hirschfeld Energy Systems To Hire Additional Workers In Texas

Martifer-Hirschfeld Energy Systems LLC will begin hiring approximately 125 additional workers in March to staff its San Angelo, Texas, wind tower production...

Getting More Precision In Resource Assessment Campaigns

Resource assessment campaigns historically involved installing a met tower and monitoring conditions for about a year to capture data points, such as wind...

Gamesa To Build 5 MW Offshore Prototype

Gamesa has signed an agreement to supply energy company E.On with an offshore prototype of its G11X-5.0 MW platform in 2012. The agreement...

Trillium CEO Questions Ontario’s Offshore Decision

Trillium Wind Power Corp. has spent the past 15 years working toward developing four offshore wind projects in the Canadian side of the...

Report Shows Biggest One-Year Increase In CO2 Pollution In U.S.

A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants in the U.S. rose 5.56%...

Vestas To Provide Turbines For WindFloat Project

Vestas has signed an agreement with WindPlus for the deployment of an offshore project that integrates a wind turbine with a full-scale,...

Survey Shows Overwhelming Support For Clean Energy Loan Guarantees

By a four-to-one margin, an overwhelming majority of Americans support the use of federal loan guarantees to encourage investment in the clean...

Gestamp, Worthington To Build Wind Tower Manufacturing Facility In Wyoming

Gestamp Renewables and the Worthington Energy Group, a subsidiary of Worthington Industries Inc., will build a wind tower manufacturing facility in Cheyenne,...

Government Of Ontario Halts Offshore Wind Development

The government of Ontario has announced that it is not proceeding with proposed offshore wind projects while further scientific research is conducted....

GE Completes Acquisition Of Wind Tower Systems

GE has acquired next-generation technology from Wind Tower Systems LLC (WTS) that is expected to enable taller wind turbine towers. The...

Survey: Subsidies, Capital Market Recovery Key To Cleantech Growth

A cleantech investor survey from Jefferies Group Inc. finds that government subsidies and a capital market recovery are key to the future...

Gamesa, Northrop Launch Offshore Wind Technology Center In Virginia

Gamesa Technology Corp. and the shipbuilding operations of Northrop Grumman Corp. have launched the Offshore Wind Technology Center in Chesapeake, Va., to...

LM Wind Power, Alstom To Develop New Blade For Offshore Wind Turbine

LM Wind Power and Alstom have entered a strategic partnership to develop the longest wind turbine blade ever produced, according to the...

DOI, DOE Announce Major Investment For Offshore Wind Energy

The federal government will offer $50.5 million in funding for research and development for offshore wind development over the next five...

Idaho PUC Adjusts Size Cap For Wind Projects

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has adjusted the size cap for wind and solar projects in the state. Projects can be...

Survey Shows Consumers Have Favorable View Of RE

Consumer support for renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, is high, according to a new survey from Pike Research. In...

BOEMRE’s Bromwich Says ‘Offshore Wind Is Still A Top Priority’

Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), reiterated the federal agency's commitment to offshore...

Boulder Wind Power Closes Financing

Boulder Wind Power has raised $8 million in Series A preferred stock financing. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the round with participation...

Study: EU Power Market Does Not Support Connecting Additional RE Power

A new study led by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) shows that the current European Union (EU) power market design does not effectively...

Broadwind Hopes Obama Visit Can Spread Manufacturing Message

Naperville, Ill.-based manufacturer Broadwind Energy plans to use a recent visit by President Obama as a way to springboard the company's...

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