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Digital Realty Reaches Wind Energy Agreement
Digital Realty, a provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, has reached a new 7.5-year power and renewable energy credit...
Wind Provides More New Capacity than Natural Gas
Solar, wind and hydropower provided 85.7% of new U.S. electric generating capacity during the first two months of 2020 - notably more than natural...
Avangrid, T-Mobile Agree on Long-Term Contract
Avangrid Renewables LLC and T-Mobile U.S. Inc. have agreed on a long-term contract for the Otter Creek Wind Farm in LaSalle County, Ill., and...
Wind Powers 2019 for Another Record Year
Wind power emerged from 2019 as the U.S.’ top choice for new power after building 9.1 GW, representing 39% of new utility-scale power additions.
With...
Spirit AeroSystems Powers Kansas Aircraft Factory
Spirit AeroSystems says Kansas public utility regulators cleared a path for the company's complete conversion to renewable wind-generated electricity for its 12.8 million square-foot...
IEA Finalizes Wind Construction Contract in Iowa
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives Inc. (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has finalized a $65 million wind construction...
Clean Energy Workers Feel the Effects of COVID-19
More than 106,000 clean energy workers lost their jobs in the month of March, and hundreds of thousands more clean energy job losses are...
Two Newly Completed Wind Farms Power Upper Midwest
Upper Midwest customers of Xcel Energy are now receiving renewable energy from two newly completed wind facilities, the 150 MW Foxtail Wind Project in...
Orsted Completes Sage Draw Wind Project
Ørsted has completed its Sage Draw Wind project, a 338 MW wind farm located between Garza and Lynn counties in Texas.
The 120-wind turbine project...
IRENA: New Renewables Account for Three-Quarters of 2019’s Power Expansion
The renewable energy sector added 176 GW of generating capacity globally in 2019, slightly lower than the 179 GW added in 2018. However, new...
Grid Challenge Winners Add Renewables to New York’s Grid
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded five winning teams under the first two rounds of the Future Grid Challenge, aimed...
U.S. Renewable Energy Increased in 2019
The production of U.S. energy from solar increased by 13.85% in 2019, while that from wind grew by 10.06%, according to a SUN DAY...
2019: Second-Biggest Year of Installed Wind Energy
2019 was the second-biggest year for wind power, with installations of 60.4 GW of new capacity worldwide and year-over-year growth of 19%, according to...
Global Wind Capacity to Maintain Growth for Next 10 Years
Global wind power capacity additions are expected to maintain an annual 77 GW from 2020 to 2029, according to a newly released report from...
Construction Begins on Japan’s First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farm
Marubeni Corp. is preparing to launch Japan’s first large-scale offshore wind power generation business.
Traditionally, wind farms in Japan have been small-scale operations, but this...
GWEC: Record Capacity of New Offshore Wind Installed in 2019
The latest data released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) shows that the global offshore wind industry added 6.1 GW of offshore wind...
South Dakota PUC Approves Permit for Crowned Ridge Wind II
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved a construction permit for the Crowned Ridge Wind II Project, a 301 MW wind energy...
Dominion Chooses Ramboll for Offshore Support
Dominion Energy has selected Ramboll to provide project development and engineering support for the proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.
Denmark-based Ramboll was selected...
NYSERDA Grants Awards for Utility-Scale Wind Projects
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has unveiled the details of the awards for 21 large-scale solar, wind and energy storage projects across upstate...
Greenbacker Acquires To-Be-Constructed Wind Project in Maine
Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co. LLC has purchased the rights to a 15.3 MW to-be-constructed wind project - RoxWind - developed by Palmer Management Corp....