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Siemens Gamesa Notches Mexican Wind Deal
Siemens Gamesa has inked a Mexican wind turbine order totaling 76 MW from independent developer Fuerza y Energia Limpia de Tizimin.
Over the course of...
New York Gov. Cuomo Plans Transmission Rebuild With Renewables In Mind
In an effort to strengthen the reliability of New York's electric power grid and enable more upstate renewables to connect to the statewide power...
Vestas Announces Texas Wind Order With Alterra
Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order from Flat Top Wind I LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Alterra Power Corp., for the 200...
100% Clean Energy Bills Now Proposed In Both House And Senate
The House version of a landmark 100% clean energy bill rolled out earlier this year has been introduced by U.S. Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo.;...
Siemens Gamesa Inks Turnkey Wind Deal On Spain’s Canary Islands
Siemens Gamesa has secured its maiden order from DISA, a distributor of energy products in Spain’s Canary Islands, for a 23.1 MW facility on...
ABB Secures $30M Deal To Support U.K. Offshore Wind
To support the integration of offshore wind in the U.K., ABB has won a $30 million order from ScottishPower Renewables to supply two SVC...
Alterra Completes Financing, Partnership For Flat Top Wind In Texas
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Alterra Power Corp. has completed financing for the Flat Top wind project, a 200 MW facility in central Texas. In turn,...
S.D. County Residents Vote To Keep Strict Wind Turbine Ordinance In Place
Citizens of Lincoln County, S.D., have voted to keep in place an ordinance that requires future wind turbines to be built at least half...
Washington Regulators OK Microsoft-PSE Renewable Energy Agreement
Under a newly approved settlement agreement between Microsoft Corp. and Washington utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE), the tech giant will be able to purchase...
House Committee Adopts Amendment Against Maryland Offshore Wind
“If construction of these turbines too close to the shoreline will reduce property value or tourism, then the turbines may cause more issues than they solve," says Congressman Andy Harris, author of the amendment.
Airgenesis Finds Partner For Manufacturing Double-Rotor Wind Turbine
Airgenesis LLC, creator of a double-rotor wind turbine design, has formed a new partnership with M2Miling Investments Ltd. from Kingston, Ontario.
Under the partnership, the...
Feds Approve Site Assessment Plan For Bay State Wind
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the site assessment plan (SAP) for Bay State Wind, a...
Nordex Secures French Wind Order From New Customer
The Nordex Group has been awarded a contract for the installation of the Pays Chaumontais wind farm, located 250 kilometers southwest of Paris in...
Senvion Enters Another New Wind Market
Senvion has signed a contract with Croatia-based Vjetroelektrana Orjak for the delivery of five turbines for the Greda wind farm.
Located close to the city...
San Diego Water Authority Seeks Proposals For Energy Storage Project
The San Diego County Water Authority has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a potential joint energy storage project with the City of...
College Professor Biking 1,250 Miles To Promote Midwest Wind
Jim Tinjum, an avid bicyclist and professor of energy engineering and sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in the middle of a 1,250-mile...
Vestas Wins V117-3.45 Order In Dominican Republic
Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order for 14 V117-3.45 MW turbines for the 48 MW Larimar II wind park, located in the...
Regulators Green-Light Hawaiian Electric’s Path To 100% Renewables
The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has accepted utility company Hawaiian Electric’s plan charting near-term actions leading to 100% renewable energy by 2045.
The Power...
Siemens Wind Power Shuttering Ontario Blade Plant
Siemens Wind Power Ltd., as part of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, has decided to close its wind blade manufacturing plant in Tillsonburg, Ontario, by...
Xcel Program Powers Minneapolis Facilities With Wind And Solar
The City of Minneapolis and Xcel Energy have a new agreement under which the city will purchase 17.8 million kWh of solar and wind energy annually. Of this total, 14 million kWh will be used for the Minneapolis Convention Center.