Saturday, April 27, 2024

Duke Energy Renewable Services Designated A Top Quality O&M Provider

Duke Energy Renewable Services is a top quality operations and maintenance (O&M) provider highly capable of performing all O&M service activities for wind and...

Shermco Announces Promotions Of Three Staff Members

Shermco recently announced three executive promotions. Former vice president of Production for the Engineering Services Division Pat Beisert was promoted to president of Shermco U.S. Beisert...

MidAmerican’s Wind IX Project In Iowa Gains State Approval

The Iowa Utilities Board recently issued an Order on Rehearing approving MidAmerican Energy Company’s proposed Wind IX Iowa electric generation project of up to...

Crane Training Program Targets Rigging Fundamentals

As part of its effort to educate crane industry professionals, Konecranes is offers a rigging fundamentals course through its New Berlin, Wisconsin-based Konecranes Training...

NREL Launches Clean Energy Incubator Network

The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have launched the Clean Energy Incubator Network. The program,...

Online Crowdfunding Portal Fuels Renewables Investment

GridShare LLC recently announced the launch of its independent crowdfunding platform to help renewable energy projects and cleantech companies raise capital. GridShare is a...

DWEA Praises USDA Rural Energy Decision

The Distributed Wind Energy Association recently lauded the USDA’s recent announcement of a final rule for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). This...

Siemens adds two vessels to offshore service fleet

Siemens has signed a chartering agreement with ship owner Bernhard Schulte for two new service operations vessels (SOV) to be purpose-built for the long-term...

SunEdison buys 1.6 GW supply deals to qualify for PTC

SunEdison, Inc., a leading global solar technology manufacturer and provider of solar energy services, and TerraForm Power, Inc., a global owner and operator of...

Apex sells 300 MW Balko Wind project to D.E. Shaw

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments, L.L.C. and Apex Clean Energy recently announced the sale of Balko Wind, a wind energy project in Beaver County,...

RES Americas Secures PPA For Deerfield Wind Project In Mich.

Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc., a leader in the development, engineering, and construction of wind, solar, transmission, and energy storage projects in North America,...

SgurrEnergy lends expertise to Nova Scotia projects

SgurrEnergy is supporting two community wind portfolios through the financing and construction phases in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The company’s North American arm is...

Northern Power Systems plans initial public offering

Northern Power Systems Corp., a next generation renewable energy technology company, announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with...

EDF RE and Vestas re-ink supply deal after 150 MW order

EDF Renewable Energy has placed a firm order with Vestas Wind Systems A/S for 150 MW of wind turbine generators. The order closes the...

Governors urge further White House support for wind energy industry

In a letter to President Obama in late December, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard and Washington Governor Jay Inslee, the chairman and vice chairman of the...

Report: Atlantic offshore wind economic impact would outshine drilling

Oceana released a new report today that finds offshore wind would produce twice the number of jobs and twice the amount of energy as...

Report: Survival of small / medium wind market hinges on subsidies and cost reduction

A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for small and medium wind turbines (SMWTs), including global market forecasts for capacity and...

MidAmerican energy completes construction

MidAmerican Energy Company has completed work on four of the five wind farms that make up its 1,050-megawatt Wind VIII project — the largest...

Minnesota Power completes fourth phase of Bison project

Minnesota Power has completed commissioning on the latest phase of its Bison Wind Energy Center. The 205-MW expansion makes it the largest wind farm...

PGE’s ‘smart’ gas plant helps balance wind, solar

Portland General Electric Company recently announced that its Port Westward Unit 2 plant, a 220-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant located near Clatskanie, Ore., went...