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TerraForm Yieldcos Talk With Toronto Company For Possible Buyout

TerraForm Global and TerraForm Power, the two yieldcos of bankrupt renewables company SunEdison, have been seeking potential buyers or new sponsors since September in...

New York’s Energy Storage Biz Sees Increasingly Strong Growth

Representing a 30% increase from 2012 through 2015, jobs in New York state’s energy storage sector grew to 3,900 as of the end of...

Brattle: Effective Hedging Strategies For Wind Development

A new white paper from economists at The Brattle Group has examined how the wind industry could use standard electric and gas forward contracts...

RE100’s Annual Report Highlights Corporate Trend Toward Renewables

The rapidly expanding corporate sourcing of renewable electricity could prove to be a major driver in the world’s transition to a zero-emissions economy, according...

DONG Energy’s O&G Exit To Be Completed By Year-End

Demark-based energy group DONG Energy is planning to exit the oil and gas (O&G) industry as soon as the end of this year. In connection...

LM Wind Power Garners Government Support For Quebec Expansion

LM Wind Power Canada, a designer and independent supplier of rotor blades for wind turbines, recently received financial support from the government of Quebec...

Check, Check: Feds Move Chokecherry And Sierra Madre Closer To Fruition

Both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management have made decisions on Power Company of Wyoming's massive wind farm.

BOEM Holding Competitive Lease Sale For N.C. Offshore Wind

A federal wind auction is being held on March 16 for 122,405 acres offshore Kitty Hawk, N.C., the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)...

M&A Action: Renewable Choice Energy Acquired By Schneider Electric

Renewable Choice Energy, a Boulder, Colo.-based provider of clean energy products and services, has been acquired by Schneider Electric, which specializes in energy management...

Federal Decision Moves TransWest Transmission Project Forward

TransWest says its 730-mile HVDC line would add 3 GW of transmission capacity to connect the Desert Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions and access more renewable energy resources, including wind power.

Wind/Hydro Transmission Line Switches Hands In New England

National Grid, Anbaric and Citizens Energy - co-developers of the proposed Vermont Green Line (VGL) - have announced the conversion of National Grid’s and...

Xcel Green-Lighted For Renewable*Connect Initiative In Minnesota

Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission has voted to approve a pilot program that will offer Minnesotans a flexible way to tap into wind and solar...

IRENA: Global Renewables Making Headway By ‘Nearly Every Measure’

Falling costs, driven by innovation in technology and policy, are spurring renewable energy deployment and bringing forward myriad socioeconomic benefits globally, according to a...
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‘Wind For Industry’ Company Grabs $80M From Prudential

One Energy Enterprises LLC, a Findlay, Ohio-based provider of Wind for Industry solutions for large electricity consumers, has secured $80 million in financing from...

How Did 2016 Fare For U.S. Energy Employment?

Changes in America’s energy profile are affecting national employment in key sectors of the economy, explains a new report from the U.S. Department of...

Centrica No Longer An Owner Of Wind Assets

In a deal representing the company’s departure from owning wind assets, U.K. energy company Centrica has agreed to sell its 50% interest in the...

Nordex Has Biggest Year Yet In Home Market

The Nordex Group closed 2016 with a strong December order intake in its home market of Germany: The turbine manufacturer received orders for 89...

Top 10 U.S. Wind Highlights Of 2016

From the first offshore wind farm to a number of federal initiatives, let's take a look at some of the happenings that shaped the U.S. wind industry in 2016.

Offshore Wind Still Shines In Slumping Year For Clean Energy Investment

Despite a record year for offshore wind financings, new investment in clean energy worldwide fell 18% last year to $287.5 billion, according to the...

Most Of New U.S. Capacity Came From Renewable Energy Last Year

Although the concrete data for the final months of last year isn’t in yet, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says it expects renewable...

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