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Deepwater Wind Wins First U.S. Federal Offshore Wind Auction
Deepwater Wind has won the U.S.' first-ever competitive lease auction for renewable energy development in federal waters, bidding $3.8 million for both available...
Hypocrisy Over Bald Eagle Protection From Wind Turbines Begins At The Federal Level
Bald eagles came close to extinction in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of more than a century of illegal shooting and...
Siemens CEO Resigns; Wind Power Profits Drop In Q3
Siemens AG has announced that CEO Peter Loscher will resign from his position at the end of the day Wednesday and leave the...
Xcel Wants To Grow Giant Wind Portfolio By 30%
Utility company Xcel Energy, which already had nearly 4.9 GW of wind power on its system at the end of 2012, has proposed...
NRG Systems Rebrands Itself Renewable NRG Systems Inc.
NRG Systems, a manufacturer of resource assessment and wind turbine optimization equipment, has changed its name to Renewable NRG Systems Inc. The company...
BP Halts Sale Of U.S. Wind Energy Business
Despite receiving 'a number of bids,' BP has announced it no longer plans to divest its U.S. wind energy business. In April, the...
Study: Albertans File Few Complaints About Wind Power
Albertans file very few complaints about wind power projects once those projects are operating, according to a new study by the Pembina Institute....
N.J. Regulators: ‘Repeated Back-And-Forth’ Over Wind Turbine Provider Hurt Fishermen’s Application
In a filing released Tuesday, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) reveals that it recently rejected Fishermen's Energy's settlement agreement with...
Late PTC Extension Squeezes First-Half Commissioning Of U.S. Wind Projects
The delay in the extension of the federal production tax credit (PTC) for wind has resulted in zero commissioned wind projects in the...
Is Canada Falling Behind On Renewable Energy Consumption?
Citing statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the canadian association for renewable energies says that Canada's consumption of renewable energy will...
BNEF: Renewables Sector To Spend Significantly More On Insurance By Decade’s End
The renewable energy industry could be spending three times as much on insurance every year by 2020 to mitigate risks to projects, says...
Manufacturer Of Wind Turbine Parts Closes Plant In Wisconsin
Wausaukee Composites, a company that makes components for wind turbines, has closed down its manufacturing facility in Cuba City, Wis. According to a...
Vestas Sues Indian Companies Over Unauthorized Deals Made By Former CFO
Vestas is suing two companies in India to recover funds that the turbine manufacturer says they owe through unauthorized deals made by its...
First Wind Proposes New England’s Largest Wind Farm
Boston-based developer First Wind has proposed a 186 MW project in Maine. Named the Bingham Wind Farm, it could become New England's biggest...
Wind Sector VC Funding Leaps During Second Quarter
Wind sector venture capital (VC) funding picked up significantly during the second quarter of this year (Q2'13), amounting to $210 million compared to...
EIA: Renewables Will Be One Of World’s Fastest-Growing Energy Sources
Over the next three decades, renewable energy and nuclear power will be the world's fastest-growing energy sources, each increasing by 2.5% per year,...
Wind Energy Helps NYISO Defend Against Record-Setting Heat Wave
During a six-day heat wave last week, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) says the state successfully met a new record peak...
N.J. Regulators Deal Major Blow To Fishermen’s Energy Offshore Wind Project
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has denied a settlement agreement between Fishermen's Energy and the New Jersey Division of Rate...
BOEM To Award Wind Energy Lease Offshore Virginia
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced it will hold a second competitive lease sale...
Renewables Outpace Coal, Oil And Nuclear In The U.S. During First Half Of Year
Renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biomass, hydro and geothermal, accounted for 24.93% of all new U.S. electrical generating capacity installed in the...