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US Wind Tackles Viewshed Concerns For Maryland Offshore Wind Project
Vying for the Maryland offshore renewable energy credit, the wind developer has offered to move the first line of turbines farther offshore, as far as five miles to the east.
Boston Health Care Nonprofit With Big Renewables Goals Signs Up For Wind
As part of its carbon-reduction plans, Boston-based nonprofit Partners HealthCare has signed a contract to buy power from a 28.8 MW wind project to...
Calif. Produce Company Combines Wind, Solar And Cogeneration
North American produce company Taylor Farms is now using a combination of wind, solar and cogeneration energy systems to power the majority of its Gonzales,...
Duke Energy Plans Renewables Growth As Part Of Grid Modernization
Duke Energy has launched a $13 billion, 10-year initiative to modernize North Carolina’s electric system. Among the goals of the “Power/Forward Carolinas” project is...
Chicago Public Buildings To Be Powered Entirely By Renewables
On Sunday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a commitment to transition the city’s hundreds of municipal buildings to 100% renewable energy by 2025.
According to...
Vestas Nets Turbine Order For 76 MW Repowering Project
Vestas has received an order from Looft-Schmidt Projekte Erneuerbarer Energien GmbH for 22 V112-3.45 MW turbines to be used in a 76 MW repowering project...
Facebook To Power Ninth Data Center With 100% Wind Energy
As noted in a recent announcement from Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, Facebook has chosen to build its next data center in Papillion, Neb., and has pledged...
Clean Energy Day: Engineering The Next Generation
With its Clean Energy Activity Day pilot program, MassCEC is bringing clean energy technologies, including wind power, to life for elementary and middle school students across the state.
Report: Renewables Added Nearly 140 GW To Global Capacity In 2016
As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record levels of renewable energy capacity in 2016, at an investment level...
Arizona Utility To Expand Renewables Investments, Reduce Coal Reliance
Tucson Electric Power (TEP), which provides electric service to nearly 420,000 customers in southern Arizona, has announced plans to expand the utility’s renewable energy...
Unimacts Opens New Logistics, Operation Center For Wind Customers
Unimacts, a global industrial manufacturing and supply-chain, third-party logistics company, says it has opened a new logistics and operation center in Brande, Denmark, to support...
NextEra, Westar Energy Tout $650M Wind Investment In Kansas
State and local leaders and landowners joined executives from NextEra Energy Resources and Westar Energy to celebrate the commissioning of the Kingman and Ninnescah...
CanWEA Celebrates Canadian Wind Leaders With 2017 Annual Awards
At the 32nd Annual Awards of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), which took place last night in Gatineau, Quebec, the association honored several industry...
Gamesa-Siemens Combined Company Appoints Leadership Team
Following the Gamesa-Siemens merger, the new combined company has announced first appointments for the joint management team and has named Rosa Garcia non-executive chairwoman of the...
Enel’s 400 MW Cimarron Bend Wind Farm Powers Up In Kansas
Enel Green Power North America Inc. (EGPNA), a subsidiary of Italy-based Enel S.p.A., has officially brought online the second and final half of its...
New Report Shows How To Boost Safety Of Offshore Wind Technicians
In an effort to make the International Maritime Organization (IMO) develop international standards, the Danish Maritime Authority (DMA) has revealed new analysis it says...
Iowa Group Underscores Low Power Prices For The Wind-Rich State
Iowa produces more electricity from wind per capita than any other state, but importantly, according to new findings from the Iowa Policy Project (IPP),...
Unearthing The Footprints Of Pattern Development’s Meikle Wind
While handling road and platform excavations for the Meikle Wind project in British Columbia, the developer discovered dinosaur tracks estimated to be nearly 100 million years old.
IRENA: Solar Beats Wind In Record Year For Global Renewables Growth
Representing the strongest year yet for new capacity additions, global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 GW in 2016, according to new data...
GE Bringing Haliade Offshore Wind Giants To Chinese Demo
GE Renewable Energy has been selected by the Fuqing Haixia Electricity Generation Co. - a joint venture between China Three Gorges and Fujian Energy...