NREL Distributes Fourth Round of Funding for Competitiveness Improvement Project
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is awarding four subcontracts under the fourth round of funding through DOE’s...
Enbridge To Acquire 50-Percent Interest in French Offshore Wind Development Company
Enbridge Inc. recently announced it has agreed to acquire a 50-percent interest in Éolien Maritime France SAS (EMF), a French offshore wind development company,...
U.S. Wind Power Jobs Hit New Record and Are Up 20 Percent in 2016
American wind power supported a record 88,000 jobs at the start of 2016 — an increase of 20 percent in one year according to...
More Than $128 Billion Dollars Invested in U.S. Economy by New Wind Power Projects
Building new wind farms in the U.S. added $13 billion per year on average to the American economy over the past five years, according...
Iron Mountain Agrees To Exchange 30 Percent of U.S. Electricity Use with Renewable Energy
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a storage and information management company, recently announced that it has signed a 15-year wind power purchase agreement (PPA) that will...
Approximately 140 Wind Projects Awarded Turbine Contracts in the Second Half of 2015
A new report from Navigant Research titled “Wind Turbine Order Tracker 1Q16” tracks all publicly announced wind turbine orders with data segmented by region,...
EDF Renewable Energy and BlackRock Close on the Sale of Two Wind Projects in...
EDF Renewable Energy recently closed on a transaction to sell a 50-percent interest in the 250-MW Roosevelt Wind Project and the 49.65-MW Milo Wind...
Rapid, Affordable Energy Transformation Possible According to New Study
The United States could slash greenhouse gas emissions from power production by up to 78 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years while meeting...
Community Consent and Land Rights Key to Growth of Renewables
According to a recent announcement by the nonprofit organization Equitable Origin (EO), conflicts over land rights and consultation with local communities present mounting risks...
Wind Energy Was a Top Source for New Electric Capacity in 2015
Wind energy installed more electric generating capacity last year than any other energy source in America.
The 8.6 GW of wind power capacity installed surpassed...
Prospects for the North American Wind Industry and Lessons from the Wind Industry in...
Globally, there has been an increase in the amount of installed wind capacity for electricity generation in recent years. However, only a few countries...
Gulf Power Customers See Lower Prices and Use of Wind-Generated Energy
As of January 1, Gulf Power customers saw a 2.7 percent decrease in their electricity bills. The average residential bill for 1,000 kWh of...
Wind Energy Continued Rapid Growth in Canada in 2015
2015 was another remarkable year for wind energy in Canada. The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) reported that Canada closed 2015 as seventh in...
Northern Power Systems Announces Lease Facility for Distributed Generation Wind Financing
Northern Power Systems Corp., a next-generation renewable energy technology company, recently announced that its flagship distributed generation wind platform is available to businesses, farms,...
SgurrEnergy Moves into Mexico
SgurrEnergy has boosted its presence in the Americas by opening an office in Mexico City. This latest venture provides a base for SgurrEnergy, a...
Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Grows by Double Digits for Fourth Year
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Interim CEO Stephen Pike recently announced the results of the 2015 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Report, which found that...
ZF Acquires Industrial Gears and Wind Turbine Gearbox Segment from Bosch Rexroth
ZF has officially taken over the industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox business from Bosch Rexroth AG. Approximately 1,200 employees at the Witten, Beijing,...
Gamesa and CFE Sign Agreement for Wind Energy Projects in Mexico
Gamesa and the Mexican Electricity Board (the CFE for its acronym in Spanish) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the fostering of...
Pilot Hill Wind Project Closes Financing from GE and MetLife
EDF Renewable Energy’s 175-MW Pilot Hill wind project located in Kankakee and Iroquois counties in Illinois has closed structured equity financing from GE Energy...
Bloomberg and EDP Renewables Announce New Yorkâs Largest Corporate Renewable Energy Purchase
EDP Renewables, a global leader in the renewable energy sector and the world’s fourth-largest wind energy producer, recently announced that it has signed a...
