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Report: Climate Energy Policies Could Create 2.5 Million Jobs, Hold Down Energy Costs

New greenhouse gas emissions and energy policies at the federal level could generate as many as 2.5 million new jobs and $134 billion...

Terra-Gen Power Announces Closing Of $1.2B Construction Financing

Terra-Gen Power LLC has closed a $1.2 billion financing deal for four wind power projects with a total of 570 MW...

U.S. Wind Speeds On The Rise

The intensity of the wind in the second quarter of this year has increased significantly in large portions of the U.S., according to...

EWEA: Offshore Wind Heads For Record Year

According to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), 118 new offshore wind turbines were fully connected to the grid in the first half...

Poll: Majority Of Ontarians Support Wind Energy

A new Ipsos Reid poll commissioned by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) finds that nine in 10 Ontario residents support the production...

SSE, Mitsubishi Partner On Low-Carbon Development

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe Ltd., and Scottish and Southern Energy PLC (SSE) have entered into a strategic...

Clipper Windpower, UTC Announce Product Warranty

Clipper and United Technologies Cor. (UTC ) have reached an agreement for UTC to guarantee Clipper wind turbine warranties for selected new business....

Wind Leaders Meet With Senate Over RES Passage

The American Wind Energy (AWEA) Association continues to apply pressure on Congress to pass a federal renewable electricity standard (RES) by the August...

Vestas To Hire More Than 1,000 Workers In Colorado

Vestas-American Wind Technology, Inc. plans to add more than 1,000 workers to its Colorado factories over the next 18 months, according to the...

Maine, Nova Scotia Sign MOU To Study Ocean Energy Development

Maine and Nova Scotia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enable research of ocean energy development. The memorandum says the two...

CleanTech Innovations Completes $10 Million Equity Financing

CleanTech Innovations, a U.S. company and solution provider to China's clean technology solutions in the wind and utilities industries, has completed a $10...

Midwest ISO Stakeholders Briefed On FERC Re-filing

Stakeholders in the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (Midwest ISO) footprint received advance notice of the contents contained in the system operator's re-filing...

First Part Of CapX2020 Lines Approved

The first part of the controversial CapX2020 lines received approval last week. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) unanimously approved a route permit...

Iberdrola Renovables Achieves Record Wind Output

Iberdrola Renovables increased its U.S. wind energy generation 32% between April and June to reach 2.96 billion kWh. In fact, the company generated...

Report: Climate Change, Emerging RE Technologies Driving New Business Models

To remain competitive, U.S. utilities will need to provide cleaner, low-carbon electricity while enabling customers to better manage and reduce their...

Vestas To Open Engineering Site In Colorado

Vestas has announced that it will open an engineering site in Louisville, Colo., to support global operations and enhance the company's...

Conservation Law Foundation Challenges Law On Wind Agreement

The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) says that documents it filed would show that the amendments to the long-term contracting statute signed...

Worker Dies After Accident At LM Wind Power Facility

A worker at the Grand Forks, N.D., regional office of LM Wind Power Group died from injuries he suffered after...

First Phase Of SMART Study Released

American Transmission Co., along with co-sponsors Electric Transmission America, transmission joint venture between subsidiaries of American Electric Power and MidAmerican Energy...

Report: State RPS Policies Will Drive 250% Increase In RE Generation

State renewable portfolio standards (RPS) will be the most critical driver determining the pace of U.S. renewables growth going forward, according...

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