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...

Vaisala Supplies Data to Endurance for Wind Hedge Transaction

Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, is providing the long-term wind measurement data required by Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a provider...

Wind Prospect and Nabla Wind Power Service Launched To Extend Wind Farm Project Life

In response to the changing renewable energy market in the U.K. and the move toward significantly reduced and zero subsidies for onshore wind projects,...

UMass Amherst Engineers Developing Multi-Line Anchor System for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

A team of researchers that includes two engineers from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst is developing a new mooring system for floating offshore...

GE is Building America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

New wind farms added more than a quarter of total new power generation capacity in the United States between 2010 and 2014, reaching 75,000...

Xcel Energy Boosts Eastern Panhandle Power Grid

Xcel Energy completed a major high-voltage transmission project in Gray and Wheeler counties in the eastern Texas Panhandle that will help sustain industrial development...

Dong Energy Reaches Agreement with the Crown Estate for Hornsea Zone

Dong Energy has reached an agreement with the Crown Estate, an independent commercial business created by the an Act of Parliament in the United...

Levenmouth Turbine Offers Unrivalled Opportunity for Renewable Energy Research and Development

Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult recently unveiled its 7-MW demonstration offshore wind turbine in Levenmouth, Scotland, underlining the vital role that the United Kingdom...

BLM Issues Environmental Assessment for Phase I Wind Turbine Development for CCSM Project

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Rawlins Field Office has released the second of two environmental assessments, along with a draft “Finding of No...

Sentient Science Chosen for Computational Gearbox Testing of 8-MW Offshore Wind Turbine

Sentient Science recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Adwen, a leading offshore wind turbine manufacturer, to validate the drivetrain for its...

Adwen’s AD 5-135 First Turbine to Obtain DNV GL Type Certificate

Adwen’s AD 5-135 turbine has obtained the first type certificate based on the “Guideline for the Certification of Offshore Wind Turbines, Edition 2012” issued...

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...

Condition Monitoring: Vibration Analysis Should Not Be Intimidating

Vibration analysis is the most widespread monitoring technique used in wind turbines, and on a typical basis, it is the first and primary technology...

The State of Wind Farm Underperformance Syndrome

It is fair to expect that the energy output of an operating wind farm should be close to what it was designed to produce....

Enormous Blades Could Lead to More Offshore Wind Energy in the U.S.

A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-MW wind turbines to the United States and the...

Carbon Trust Launches Technology Trial To Create 3-D Wind Maps for Offshore Wind Farms

The Carbon Trust recently announced the start of the world’s largest trial of scanning light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology taking place in Dublin...