A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
CEO To Wind Industry: Join The Climate-Change War
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As general-session panelists dutifully recited the attributes of wind energy at the recently concluded WINDPOWER 2013 in Chicago, fellow panelist Larry Schweiger, president/CEO at the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), let forth with statements so pointed that they quickly shattered the genial atmosphere of the McCormick Place ballroom. Schweiger urged wind [read more]
In a 66 to 27 vote Monday, the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive farm bill that, among many other provisions, includes funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). REAP provides grants and loans to help rural businesses and agricultural producers invest in energy efficiency [read more]
Indiana Michigan Power Co. (I&M), a subsidiary of American Electric Power (AEP), has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR) to buy the output from the 200 MW Headwaters wind farm. The Headwaters project will be built in Randolph County, Ind., and connect to [read more]
Vestas has received a 94 MW order from Aurora Wind Power, a joint venture between GDF SUEZ, Investec and Kagiso Investment, for a wind farm at the Western Cape of South Africa. The contract includes supply, installation and commissioning of 47 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines, along with a VestasOnline [read more]
The Canadian government has granted Quebec-based research facility Wind Energy TechnoCentre over C$3 million in new funding. Denis Lebel, minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the regions of Quebec, says the renewal of a three-year funding agreement will enable the TechnoCentre to pursue its mission to create [read more]
Aconex, a provider of software-as-a-service solutions, has announced two recent supply agreements with renewable energy developer Apex Wind Energy Inc. Under the terms of the first agreement, Apex deployed the Aconex Online Collaboration Platform to manage construction of the recently completed 300 MW Canadian Hills wind facility near Oklahoma City, [read more]
Cable manufacturer HELUKABEL has recently brought its expanded global logistics center in Hemmingen, Germany, online. The company says the $50 million project more than doubled its warehousing capacity, providing a foundation for further growth in the future. "This new building is a milestone in the history of our company," says [read more]
American Electric Power (AEP) subsidiary Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking long-term purchases of up to 200 MW of new wind energy resources. According to the RFP, proposals must rely on wind projects that are in advanced stage of development and capable [read more]
Seajacks International has entered into a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries to build what the companies say will be the world's largest offshore wind farm installation vessel. Named Seajacks Scylla, the new vessel is based on the Gusto MSC NG14000X design and will be outfitted with 105-meter-long legs that have [read more]
The Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has announced it will provide C$50 million of financing, in the form of a term loan, for the construction and operation of the Vents du Kempt wind project in Matapedia, Quebec. Eolectric Club L.P. and Fiera Axium Infrastructure Canada LP are heading [read more]
Wind turbine developers will soon have open access to a 50 million British pound testing facility at the National Renewable Energy Centre (NAREC) in the U.K. According to GE, the facility is being specifically designed for full-scale testing of large nacelles, and GE's Power Conversion will help enable the development [read more]
FLiDAR NV has deployed one of its LIDAR buoys for developer DONG Energy in the southern East Irish Sea, representing Europe's first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using LIDAR, according to the companies. The FLiDAR equipment consists of a buoy-adapted LEOSPHERE WINDCUBEv2 LIDAR held in a passive mechanical stabilization system, [read more]
Renewable energy consultancy SgurrEnergy says the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (Fraunhofer IWES) has verified the accuracy of Galion Lidar's "remote mast" functionality. The research institute states that Galion Lidar, a remote wind measurement device developed by SgurrEnergy, "may be recommended ... for a power performance [read more]
West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) and independent safety, science and standards development company Underwriters Laboratories (UL) are building a large-scale wind turbine testing facility as part of a five-year research and testing agreement. The wind turbine testing facility will encompass 60 acres of land near Nance Ranch, with an additional [read more]
Clean Line Energy Partners has completed the acquisition of Power Network New Mexico LLC, the project development company of the Power Network New Mexico transmission project. Clean Line and the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) are jointly developing the transmission project, which consists of a proposed 200-mile, 345 [read more]
Despite a slowdown from the U.S. wind market in 2013, MAKE Consulting says its long-term global growth outlook remains unchanged and expects the global wind market to continue to grow at a 4.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the 2012 to 2020 period. Positive developments in Chinese regulation as [read more]
Eric H. Drummond has joined Husch Blackwell as a partner in its Denver office, where he will lead the firm's energy practice. Drummond brings more than 20 years of domestic and international energy development, technology, transactional and regulatory experience. He will focus on legal and policy work for smart grid [read more]
In an effort to reduce the cost of energy from offshore wind farms, GL Garrad Hassan (GLGH) will study new technologies that can be applied to offshore wind turbines. Dubbed Project FORCE (for reducing the cost of energy), GLGH says the campaign will build on the company's experience in turbine [read more]
Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Rope Partner and blade enhancement solutions provider Bladena are joining forces to combat blade failures. According to Rope Partner, research shows that a significant number of turbine blade failures are bond line-related, with trailing edge failures being the most common. These problems are caused by "breathing," a [read more]
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