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DOE WETO Offers Funding to Solve U.S. Wind Energy Challenges
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) has released a $28 million funding opportunity to lower costs and address barriers...
Orsted Brings in Lopa Parikh to Lead Electricity Policy Efforts
Ørsted is expanding its presence in Washington, D.C., with the addition of Lopa Parikh as its new head of electricity policy. She brings two...
PPL, Elia Subsidiaries Connect New England Offshore Wind Transmission Efforts
PPL Corp., through its PPL TransLink Inc. subsidiary, and Elia Group, through its WindGrid subsidiary, have signed an agreement to develop and propose innovative...
ECP Takes 50 Percent Ownership of Three Orsted Wind Farms
Ørsted has closed a transaction with Energy Capital Partners (ECP), an energy transition-focused investor, to divest a 50% ownership stake in a portfolio consisting...
StormGeo Monitoring Weather Conditions for 63 AVANGRID Wind Farms
AVANGRID, a member of the Iberdrola Group, is using 24/7 weather intelligence provider StormGeo’s advanced weather forecasting services for onshore wind farms across the...
Layoffs Expected for Close to 20 Percent of GE U.S. Onshore Wind Unit Workforce
General Electric Co. employees in North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa were notified of onshore wind business layoffs, with more to...
Enbridge Integrates Tri Global Energy Development Portfolio
Enbridge Inc. has acquired renewable project developer Tri Global Energy (TGE) for $270 million in cash and assumed debt. Additionally, up to approximately $50...
GE Chooses Onyx Insight for Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring
GE Renewable Energy has selected ONYX Insight, an independent data analytics and engineering experts, as the sole provider of condition monitoring solutions for its...
AVANGRID Consolidates Onshore, Offshore Wind Businesses
AVANGRID Inc. has consolidated its onshore and offshore renewables businesses. Leading the consolidated business will be Jose Antonio Miranda, who will serve as president...
Mainstream, Aker Offshore Wind Merge to Accelerate Offshore Wind Development
The shareholders of Mainstream Renewable Power and Aker Offshore Wind have entered an agreement to combine the two companies to create a stronger renewable...
Nearly 11 GW of Renewables Earmarked in Latest Auction
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for the U.K.’s fourth Contract-for-Difference (CfD) auction round (AR4) for renewables has yielded almost 11 GW...
New Onshore Wind Project Costs Increased 7 Percent from 2021 to 2022
The latest BloombergNEF (BNEF) analysis shows the cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%....
WindEurope Report Spotlights Issues with Wind Energy Approval Bottlenecks, Supply Chains
WindEurope’s Annual Statistics 2021 report highlights the insufficient speed of wind energy expansion in Europe. Europe as a whole installed 17.4 GW of new...
RWE Announces Billions in Investments and 50 GW Growth Plan by 2030
With its new Growing Green strategy, RWE has revealed it is investing €50 billion gross in its core business. That means an average of...
Siemens Gamesa Upgrades Onshore Turbine Power Output
Siemens Gamesa has upgraded its next-generation onshore platform, increasing power output to 6.6 MW. The new SG 6.6-155 and SG 6.6-170 turbines will now...
Second New York RWE Wind Farm Starts Operations
RWE Renewables has started commercial operation on its 125 MW Cassadaga Wind Farm in New York. The project, located in Chautauqua County, is powered...
RWE Renewables Starts Commerical Operation on Ohio Wind Farm
RWE Renewables has started commercial operation on its 250 MW onshore Scioto Ridge Wind Farm. The project, located in Hardin and Logan counties, Ohio,...
Despite Odds, Offshore Wind Had ‘Colossal Six Months’
Renewable energy capacity investment showed great resilience in the first half of the year despite the unprecedented economic shock caused by the coronavirus, according...
IRENA: Renewable Power Increasingly Cheaper than Fossil Fuels
Renewable power is increasingly cheaper than any new electricity capacity based on fossil fuels, according to a recent report by the International Renewable Energy...
Brattle Group Details State of New England’s Offshore Transmission
The Brattle Group has detailed onshore electric grid cost savings of over $1 billion and significantly reduced environmental impacts in adopting a multi-user, planned...