New Concrete Tower Construction Method for Wind Turbines
A team led by Professor Johann Kollegger at the Institute of Structural Engineering at Technische Universität (TU) Wien has developed a new tower construction...
ENEL Starts Construction of New 150-MW U.S. Wind Project
Enel S.p.A., through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGPNA), has started construction of the Lindahl wind project, which will be Enel’s...
Goldwind Americas Signs 160-MW Texas Deal with RES Americas
Goldwind Americas, a subsidiary of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd., recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Renewable Energy Systems...
SgurrEnergy Supports Canadian Wind Portfolio to Financial Close
A portfolio of wind projects in Canada has reached financial close after SgurrEnergy provided lender’s technical due diligence to support the financing process. SgurrEnergy,...
Senvion Secures Turbine Order in Japan and Opens Office in Tokyo
Senvion, one of the world’s largest and leading wind turbine manufacturers, recently announced the opening of its office in Tokyo to service the local...
O&M Takes Center Stage in Mortensonâs New Wind Energy Study
The wind energy industry looks to be making a major shift, according to data in Mortenson’s new Renewable Energy Leadership Series study, “The 40-Year...
Adwenâs AD 5-132 Obtains Type Certificate from DNV GL
Adwen recently obtained the type certificate of its AD 5-132 offshore wind turbine awarded by the independent certification body DNV GL. This milestone marks...
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...
Vaisala and Pattern Energy Strike Lightning Data Deal
Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has signed a three-year contract with Pattern Energy Group Inc., a leading independent power company,...
GE and Deepwater Make Progress on America’s First Offshore Wind Farm
GE recently announced that it has made progress with the assembly of the first part of towers that will be used to support the...
Acciona Windpower and Nordex Complete Merger
Following clearance by the competition authorities, the merger of Nordex Group and Acciona Windpower (AWP), all contractual formalities have been completed. The transaction has...
Company Spotlight: Wanzek Construction, Inc.
With global expenditures for wind turbine operations and maintenance rising due to an increasing number of installations and aging turbines, higher attention is being...
A Massive Magnet Will Generate Power at Americaâs First Offshore Wind Farm
Offshore wind farms can tap into a bounty of wind that allows them to work twice as efficiently, but that productivity comes at a...
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...
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...
