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Renewables Beat Nuclear By A Hair For U.S. Electrical Generation
Renewable energy sources - biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind - accounted for nearly 20% of net domestic electrical generation during the first half...
MidAmerican Launches Effort To Protect Eagles, Bats At Iowa Wind Farms
In a new plan filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Co. has proposed a series of...
EDPR Announces Illinois Wind PPA With Salesforce
EDP Renewables North America LLC has announced an 80 MW, 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with cloud computing company Salesforce for the Bright Stalk...
Faith Leaders Bless Block Island Wind Farm, Call For More Offshore Wind
On Monday, more than 110 people of faith from New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maryland stood silently as Buddhist, Jewish,...
California Assembly Passes 100% Renewable Energy Bill
On Tuesday, the California State Assembly voted in favor of S.B.100, a bill mandating 100% renewable energy by 2045.
First introduced in 2017 by State...
GE Provides Financing, Turbines For Ukraine Wind Farm
GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, has facilitated the raising of EUR 90 million in project financing for stage one (100 MW)...
Xcel Energy Colorado Gets Good News On 1.1 GW Wind Plans
On Monday, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) provided initial approval of Xcel Energy’s Colorado Energy Plan (CEP), which would close two coal units...
Facebook Commits To 100% Global Renewable Energy
Today, Facebook announced a commitment to power its global operations with 100% renewables, as well as reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions 75%, by the end...
DOE Gives The Lowdown On The State Of U.S. Wind Power
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released its latest wind energy market reports, showing that as wind installations continue across the country and offshore...
NRG’s Station A Biz Offers ‘Transparent Access’ To Clean Energy Options
Station A Inc., a software start-up automating clean energy development, has launched as an independent company.
Based in San Francisco, Station A - originally developed...
Schneider Electric Expands Renewable Energy Efforts
Global energy management company Schneider Electric has joined the Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles, an initiative of 76 companies seeking to spur progress on...
Boston Takes ‘Big Step’ Toward Community Choice Aggregation
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced that the city will issue a request for qualifications (RFQ) to assist with the creation of a municipal...
Partners Agree On PPA For 200 MW Quebec Wind Farm
Power contract negotiations have been finalized for the 200 MW Apuiat wind farm in Quebec.
Hydro-Québec and the project's partners - Société en commandite Apuiat, formed...
Wind Energy To Power Philadelphia Flyers’ Wells Fargo Center
Comcast Spectacor, owner of the Wells Fargo Center arena and the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Philadelphia Flyers, has reached a long-term agreement with retail...
Capital Dynamics Closes $1.2B Clean Energy Fund
Capital Dynamics, an independent global asset manager, has announced the final close of its Clean Energy and Infrastructure VII JV LLC fund (CEI VII) with...
With Big Texas Order, Senvion ‘Excited To Be Back In The U.S.’
Senvion has signed an agreement for the supply and commissioning of 275 MW of turbines for a wind project in Knox County, Texas.
The TG...
Pattern Energy Completes Sale Of Chile Operations
Pattern Energy Group Inc. has completed the sale of its operations in Chile - consisting primarily of an 81 MW interest in the 115 MW...
EPA Proposes Affordable Clean Energy Rule To Replace Clean Power Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, which establishes emission guidelines for states to use when developing plans to...
New Jersey Plans Path Toward 100% Clean Energy By 2050
The New Jersey Energy Master Plan (EMP) Committee will host a series of public stakeholder meetings in September, launching a public participation process that...
Tribal Communities Across The U.S. Get Federal Funding For Wind, Solar
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced nearly $9 million in funding for 15 tribal energy infrastructure projects, including a number of wind...