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...
Schneider Electric Offers Most Comprehensive Support Package in the Wind Market
It’s no secret that wind farm operators, like all renewable energy generators, struggle with maximizing power generation. In addition to performing maintenance at optimal...
Centrica Energy Benefits from Romax Insightâs Wind Farm Solution Services
A multi-national integrated energy business and parent company of British Gas, Centrica Energy has 27.9 million customer accounts and a total operating profit of...
Moventas Introduces Breakthrough Suite of Technologies Known As XL – Extra Life
Moventas, a leading wind gearbox manufacturer and service provider, recently announced a breakthrough suite of technologies known as XL – Extra Life, which is...
DNV GL Launches New Software Tool To Reduce Product Development Time and Cost of...
DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, recently released Turbine.Architect, a new in-house software tool enabling turbine engineers...
GE Renewable Energy Unveils New 3-MW Wind Turbine Platform
GE Renewable Energy recently unveiled its new family of 3-MW wind turbines at the European Wind Energy Association’s (EWEA) 2015 Annual Event in Paris....
Nordex Aims for Profitable Growth with Acciona Windpower
At its Capital Markets Day in Frankfurt, Germany, Nordex SE presented its medium-term strategic targets for the period through 2018. These plans are based...
