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New Coalition Pushes For 100% Clean Energy In Chicago
On Tuesday, the Ready For 100 Chicago Collective announced its formation as a new community coalition working to move Chicago to a 100% clean,...
100 U.S. Cities And Towns Now Committed To 100% Clean Energy
Cincinnati, Ohio, has become the 100th city or town in the nation - and the second city in Ohio, following Cleveland - to commit...
Boston’s Sherin And Lodgen Launches Renewable Energy Practice
Boston-based law firm Sherin and Lodgen LLP has expanded its solar practice and created a national renewable energy practice group.
According to the firm, the...
ExxonMobil Inks Half-Gigawatt Wind, Solar Deals In Texas
Ørsted has announced 500 MW of power purchase agreements (PPAs) with ExxonMobil for wind and solar projects in Texas.
According to a presentation from Ørsted's...
Survey Shows Strong Support For Saskatchewan Wind Power
According to a new poll released by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), there is overwhelming support for wind energy development in Saskatchewan.
Saskatoon-based Insightrix Research conducted...
MidAmerican Installing Battery Storage Pilot Project
Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Co. has announced plans to install a utility-scale battery energy storage system, enabling the utility to store electricity for later...
Large-Scale Substation Projects To Support Wyoming Wind
PacifiCorp has selected a joint venture between Burns & McDonnell and Hitachi T&D Solutions - a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. - to build...
New Kansas Wind Farm To Provide 80% Of Washburn University’s Power
Washburn University, located in Topeka, Kan., has announced a 20-year wind power agreement with Westar Energy.
The university will purchase 4 MW of energy from...
BNEF: Energy Storage Market To Attract $620 Billion By 2040
Editor's note: The dollar investment figure (from $1.2 trillion to $620 billion) was corrected by BNEF on Nov. 15 following their discovery of a totaling...
Indiana’s NIPSCO Plots Coal Phaseout, Transition To Renewables
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. LLC (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource Inc., has unveiled an initiative designed to transition customers to a more affordable...
Hooray For S.B.100! Now What Happens For Wind Energy?
California was one of the first states to adopt a renewable portfolio standard (RPS), requiring electrical utilities to procure 20% renewable energy by 2020....
Wind, Solar Help Slash CO2 Power Emissions 28% Since 2005
According to new findings from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. electric power sector carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) have declined 28% since 2005 because...
U.S. Wind In Q3: Bigger Turbines And Non-Utility Deals Galore
With 612 MW installed in the third quarter of this year, U.S. wind farms now represent a total 90,550 MW of electricity generating capacity,...
A Closer Look At Bat Conservation In The Canadian Wind Industry
The following has been adapted from an executive summary of a resource published by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) to summarize bat conservation...
City Of Kent, Wash., Joins PSE’s Renewable Energy Program
The City of Kent, Wash., has signed an agreement to purchase power for nearly all of its facilities from local renewable energy resources through...
Vineyard Wind Signs Milestone Lease Deal With Massachusetts
Massachusetts' Baker-Polito administration and Vineyard Wind have announced a lease agreement to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal as the primary staging and deployment...
Wake County, N.C., Commits To 100% Renewables
On Monday, the Wake County, N.C., board of commissioners voted to commit to transition county operations to 100% clean and renewable energy countywide by 2050.
According...
The Importance Of Choosing The Right Wind Turbine Grease
Getting the most of evolving opportunity in the wind power market requires reliable operation and dependability in every component of a turbine, and it’s...
Washington State Agencies Commit To Local Wind And Solar
Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., has announced that eight state agencies will purchase over 100 million kWh of electricity by 2021 from wind and solar...
New Michigan Bill Seeks 100% Renewable Energy
Michigan Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, has introduced a bill that would require all of Michigan utilities’ energy to come from renewable sources by...