Siemens To Supply 126 MW to Onshore Wind Power Plants in Scotland
Siemens has been awarded orders for three onshore wind projects in Scotland, supplying up to 50,000 households in South and North Ayrshire and Lockerbie....
Xcel Energy Proposes Option for 100-Percent Renewable Energy
Xcel Energy recently proposed a new program that would allow its Minnesota customers to choose energy generated exclusively from wind and solar resources.
The company...
GE Renewable Energy Signs 60 MW Wind Deal in Thailand
GE Renewable Energy recently announced it has signed a contract with Khao Kor Wind Power Co., Ltd., to supply wind turbines for the Khao...
UpWind and Suspendem Bring Vortex Generators to Canadian Market
UpWind Solutions, Inc., North America’s leading independent full-service provider for the wind industry, and Suspendem Inc., a leader in Canadian wind turbine O&M services,...
Senvion Celebrates the Commercial Operation of Its Largest Onshore Project
Senvion, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, recently marked the commercial operation of the Rivière-du-Moulin wind project in Quebec, Canada. With...
Enbridge Acquires 103-MW West Virginia Wind Project
Enbridge Inc. recently announced the acquisition of a 100-percent interest in the 103-MW New Creek Wind Project from EverPower Wind Holdings, LLC, an independent...
Wind Energy To Power GMâs Texas Assembly Plant
General Motors’ Arlington Assembly plant will soon be able to build up to 125,000 trucks a year using wind power from turbines whose blades...
Block Island Wind Farm Caps Off Successful First Offshore Construction Season
The first offshore construction season is now complete in the U.S. for the nation’s first offshore wind farm with all five steel jacket foundations...
Duke Energy Renewables Blows into Oklahoma with 200-MW Wind Project
Duke Energy Renewables recently announced that it is planning to build a large-scale wind power project in Oklahoma, the company’s first renewables project in...
Acciona Windpower To Supply Turbines for Building Energy’s First U.S. Wind Project
Acciona Windpower, an Acciona group subsidiary dedicated to the design, manufacture, and sale of wind turbines, has completed a turbine supply agreement with Building...
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...
Innovative Study Helps Offshore Wind Developers Protect Wildlife
Thanks to a first-of-its-kind in-depth study of wildlife distribution and movements, the nation’s Eastern Seaboard is better prepared now more than ever for offshore...
What Americaâs First Offshore Wind Farm Reveals About GEâs Alstom Deal
Block Island is a teardrop-shaped piece of land some 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. It’s best known for its beaches, wind-swept...
Invenergy Starts Commercial Operation of Beech Ridge Energy Storage Project in West Virginia
Invenergy LLC recently announced the start of commercial operations of its 31.5-MW Beech Ridge Energy Storage project in Rupert, West Virginia.
The project is located...
Grand Opening of Pattern Energyâs 200-MW Loganâs Gap Wind Facility in Texas
Pattern Energy Group Inc. (Pattern Energy) recently held a Grand Opening ceremony to dedicate its new 200-MW Logan’s Gap Wind facility in Comanche County,...
Equinix Signs Power Purchase Agreements that Bring Its North American Data Centers to 100-Percent...
Equinix, Inc., a global interconnection and data center company, recently announced that it has signed power purchase agreements (PPA) with an affiliate of NextEra...
Iowa State Engineers Test Taller Wind Turbine Towers Made from Precast Concrete
Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the...
Consortium Plans To Build Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Portugal
EDP Renewables (EDPR), Mitsubishi Corporation (through its subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe), Chiyoda Corporation (through its subsidiary Chiyoda Generating Europe), Engie, and Repsol recently announced...
Composite Electroless Nickel Coatings for the Wind Energy Industry Varieties and Performance Advantages
Coatings can be advantageous, and, in many applications, they are essential for proper performance, protection, lifetime, and many other factors. Therefore, selecting the proper...
Condition Monitoring Does Not Need To Be Overwhelming
While condition monitoring has a rather simple definition, it is only when we are caught up in “analysis paralysis” syndrome that our minds get...
