Invenergy Announces Start of Commercial Operation for Prairie Breeze II Wind Energy Center
Invenergy Wind LLC recently announced the completion of construction and the start of commercial operation of its Prairie Breeze II Wind Energy Center in...
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...
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...
CONSTRUCTION
2016 Wind Systems Buyer's Guide - Construction
Apex Clean Energy Secures $216 Million Construction Loan for Grant Wind Project
Apex Clean Energy, an independent renewable energy company, recently announced that it has reached the financial close of a $216 million construction loan for...
Mainstream Starts Construction of Two Wind Farms in South Africa
Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power celebrated the start of construction of two wind farms in South Africa’s Northern Cape, which have...
Vestas Receives First Order from Xcel Energy for 200-MW Project in North Dakota
Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order in the U.S. for 100 V100-2.0 MW turbines to power the Courtenay wind power plant in...
Siemens Creates New Sales Channel for Local Onshore Wind Energy Projects
Siemens is working to build stronger ties with owners of smaller onshore wind projects — the kinds of projects where local knowledge and expertise...
Alabama PSC Approves Renewable Energy Proposal
The Alabama Public Service Commission unanimously approved a proposal by Alabama Power to secure up to 500 MW of renewable generation over the next...
SunEdison Closes $390 Million of Financing for 300 MW Wind Farm in Texas
SunEdison, Inc., the world’s largest renewable energy development company, recently announced that it has closed financing and begun construction on one of its largest...
Wind Farm Plants To Be Built In Northern Peru
The Energy and Mines Ministry granted a temporary concession to the enterprise Countourglobal Peru, which will conduct feasibility studies for Piura region-based Almirante Grau...
Groundbreaking at North Carolinaâs First Industrial-Scale Wind Farm
For the first time, wind power is lifting off in North Carolina. Govenor Pat McCrory joined business and community leaders in Elizabeth City to...
Tri Global Energy Continues To Lead Texas in Wind Energy
Tri Global Energy, a Dallas-based utility-scale renewable energy company, continues as the leading developer of wind energy projects in Texas, according to the second...
BNSF Logistics Acquires Transportation Technology Services
BNSF Logistics, LLC, an international multi-modal logistics service provider, recently announced its acquisition of Transportation Technology Services, a widely recognized leader in engineering and...
Blattner Sets North American Wind Installation Record
Blattner Energy, a power generation contractor and leading provider of renewable energy construction in North America, announced that it has more than 25,000 megawatts...
Longhorn Wind Reaches Commercial Operation
EDF Renewable Energy recently announced that the 200 MW Longhorn Wind Project in Texas reached commercial operation on May 1.
The project, spanning 33,000 acres...
Alterra Taps Mortenson To Build Shannon Wind Project
Mortenson Construction’s Wind Energy Group recently announced that it entered into a contract for construction of the Shannon Wind Project located near Windthorst, Texas,...
