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DOE Funds UMaine 3D Printing Research for Wind Blade Molds
The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been awarded $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency...
Leosphere Upgrades WindCube Profiling Lidar
Leosphere, a Vaisala company that specializes in developing, manufacturing and servicing lidar instruments for wind energy, says it increased the measurement capabilities, services and...
Biden Aims to Double U.S. Offshore Wind Capacity in Next Decade
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that includes doubling offshore wind power generation in U.S. federal waters by 2030. The order also...
IndentiFlight Detection Technology Reduces Avian Fatalities from Wind Turbines
IdentiFlight, a company that delivers and operates machine vision and AI technology for avian species detection, says bird fatalities in wind farms are greatly...
BNEF: Corporations Invest in Record Amount of Clean Energy in 2020
Corporations purchased a record of 23.7 GW of clean energy in 2020, up from 20.1 GW in 2019 and 13.6 GW in 2018, according...
Amidst COVID, Utility-Scale Wind Continues to Set Generation Records
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, electrical generation by the nation's utility-scale wind and solar plants continues to set new records - it was 35.1% greater...
ECO to Construct First Jones Act Compliant, ABS Class SOV
Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), a provider of marine transportation solutions, says it will engineer, construct and operate the first U.S.-flagged Jones Act offshore wind...
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Appoints Senior Vice President of Offshore Wind
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (GLDD), a provider of dredging services, has named Eleni Beyko senior vice president of offshore wind - a...
Shell, Simply Blue Partner to Develop Floating Wind Farm off Irish Coast
Shell has signed an agreement with Simply Blue Energy, an early stage marine project developer of sustainable floating wind, wave energy and aquaculture projects,...
Wind Energy Tops Coal, Natural Gas in Southwest Power Pool
In 2020, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), a regional transmission organization, became the first grid operator to have wind as its number-one fuel source -...
Clearway Awards EPC Contract for West Virginia Wind Farm
Clearway Energy Group, a developer and operator of clean energy projects, has selected the Bechtel-Reed & Reed joint venture to build its Black Rock...
Onshore Wind Offers Economy-Boosting Opportunities to Rural U.S.
In the next decade, rural communities have a significant opportunity to strengthen and diversify their local economies by embracing and actively engaging in the...
Vineyard Wind Gives BOEM Green Light to Resume Permitting Process
Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind development company, has notified the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that the company is rescinding its December 2020...
Flash Technology Launches New Line of Aviation Obstruction Lighting
Flash Technology, a company that specializes in aids-to-navigation (AtoN) solutions, has launched the FTS 350i LED aviation obstruction light. An economical option for wind...
Europe Touts Record-Breaking Year in Renewable Generation
Europe recorded its greenest electricity year ever in 2020. For the first time, more electricity was generated from renewables than from fossil fuels. Renewables...
MHI, Partners Sign Letter of Intent to Produce Hydrogen from Wind
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Shell, Vattenfall and Wärme Hamburg have signed a letter of intent unveiling plans to jointly produce hydrogen from wind and...
Orsted Trust Fund Supports Burgeoning New Jersey Offshore Wind Industry
The trustees of Ørsted’s Pro-NJ Grantor Trust Fund have unveiled details of the fund and the process to apply.
The $15 million private fund was...
DOE Funds GE Research to Accelerate Wind Generator Development
A multi-disciplinary team of engineers at GE’s research lab in Niskayuna, N.Y., has been awarded $20.3 million in follow-on funding by the DOE’s Wind...
PALFINGER Named Preferred Crane Supplier for Fecamp Offshore Wind Farm
PALFINGER Marine, an international manufacturer of hydraulic lifting, loading and handling systems, has been named preferred supplier for 71 of its PF14000-4.5 LDB fixed...
Kongsberg Supplying Monitoring Equipment to World’s Largest Floating Wind Project
Kongsberg Maritime, a company that delivers systems for positioning, surveying, navigation and automation to offshore installations, says it will be supplying key positioning and...