The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

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Businesses, Groups Join Climate Registry

on 17 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Fifty-four corporations, state and local governments, and other organizations have achieved founding reporter status by being the first to join the Climate Registry. The Climate Registry is a nonprofit organization established to measure and publicly report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a common, accurate and transparent manner across industry sectors [read more]

Sunflower Signs Contract For Smoky Hills Output

on 17 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. has signed a contract to purchase 24 MW of energy generated from the second phase of the Smoky Hills wind project, Smoky Hills II. The project site is located 25 miles west of Salina, Kan. Sunflower previously purchased 50.4 MW from the project's first phase. TradeWind [read more]

Shear Wind Announces New Board Member

on 17 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Murray Smith of Calgary, Alberta, has joined Shear Wind's board of directors. Smith's experience in Alberta will enhance the board's breadth as it grows, according to Mike Magnus, CEO of Shear Wind. Smith most recently was Alberta's representative to the U.S. He served 12 years as a member of the [read more]

Systems Integrator Achieves Carbon Neutrality

on 17 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Systems integrator Guidance has announced that the company achieved carbon neutrality in 2007, 18 months ahead of its goal. The purchase of renewable energy credits offsets all of the carbon emissions associated with Guidance's business activities in 2007. The renewable energy source derives from wind and biomass production facilities. This [read more]

Magnetek Announces Addition To Marketing Staff

on 16 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based Magnetek Inc., which manufactures digital power and motion control systems, including its own line of multi-megawatt E-Force large wind power inverters designed and produced for wind turbine manufacturers, has hired Kristan Grote as the marketing communications specialist for the company's elevator and alternative energy divisions. [read more]

TerraPass Launches Carbon Balanced Business Program

on 16 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

TerraPass, a consumer retailer and marketer of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction offsets, has unveiled the carbon balanced business program designed to help businesses balance out the carbon emissions created from their daily operations. No registration is required for the free TerraPass online carbon calculator that determines carbon footprints. [read more]

Xantrex Receives Order From North American Wind Turbine Manufacturer

on 16 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Xantrex Technology Inc., a producer of equipment that converts and controls variable power from wind turbine generators into alternating current power for the utility grid, has received a purchase order valued at $25 million from a North American wind turbine manufacturer to supply multi-megawatt power converters. Xantrex [read more]

Company Acquires Seven U.S. Wind Farms

on 16 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Babcock & Brown, a wind energy developer and operator, has acquired seven midwestern wind energy projects - under various stages of development - from Gamesa Energy USA and Navitas Energy, a subsidiary of Gamesa. The seven wind energy projects, totaling more than 750 MW, are located across five states in [read more]

LURC Recommends Approval Of Wind Project In Maine

on 16 Jan 2008 by NAW Staff

Power company TransCanada Corp. has announced that Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) voted unanimously to direct its staff to prepare a decision document approving the zoning change and preliminary development plan sought by TransCanada for the 132 MW Kibby Wind Power Project in Kibby and Skinner townships in northwestern [read more]