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*
Friday, June 07, 2013
State Governors Move On Policy: How Did Wind Fare?
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, D-Conn., has signed into law S.B.1138, An Act Concerning Connecticut's Clean Energy Goals. The legislation amends the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS), allowing large-scale hydropower to qualify as a Class I resource. Connecticut's RPS requires 27% of utilities' electricity to come from renewable energy resources by [read more]
Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., signed into law S.B.252, which increases the renewable energy standard (RES) for cooperative associations that provide wholesale electricity in Colorado and for large electric associations that provide service to at least 100,000 meters. The bill expands Colorado's RES to 20% by 2020, while capping retail cost [read more]
Evidence that utilities are increasingly turning to wind energy is well documented, and recent announcements show this trend accelerating. Last year, for the first time ever, wind power came in as the largest single source of new electric generating capacity in the U.S., installing 42% of all new capacity in [read more]
Gord Miller, Ontario's environmental commissioner, reports that the province's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector are threatened by significant increases in the province's use of natural gas to generate electricity. The report, "Failing our Future," updates Ontario's progress in reducing GHG emissions. While the Ontario [read more]
A delegation of Vietnamese government officials, wind farm developers, business representatives and energy executives visited Gamesa Technology Corp.'s Bucks County, Pa.-based headquarters and nacelle assembly plant to learn more about the company's turbine technology and explore potential export opportunities. Organized by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Vietnamese delegation [read more]
Gamesa has signed a seven-year operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement with FCC covering 397 wind turbines that have a total output of 421 MW. The deal includes maintenance on 120 660 kW, 184 850 kW and 93 2 MW turbines across 14 wind farms in Spain. Under the terms of [read more]
After eight months of testing and verification, wind gear manufacturer Moventas says it has completed drivetrain testing for a gear and generator concept. Called FusionDrive, the product enables higher drivetrain efficiency due to a better power curve and overall efficiency. It has a lower drivetrain mass and requires less material [read more]
Brazil's largest wind energy developer has purchased Second Wind's remote sensing technology as part of its standard practice in wind measurement. Second Wind notes the purchase agreement with Sao Paulo-based Casa dos Ventos Energias Renovaveis includes not only Triton SoDARs but also Pentalum Technologies' SpiDAR LiDAR system. A company purchasing [read more]
After more than a year of preparation and near-shore testing near Atlantic City, N.J., offshore wind developer Fishermen's Energy says it relocated a Wind Sentinel buoy to an offshore area leased from the U. S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Located 11 miles east of [read more]
After much debate, Gov. Dave Heineman, D-Neb., reluctantly signed L.B.104 into law. L.B.104 provides sales tax exemptions for the purchase of wind turbines, towers and other wind farm components. Supporters contend Nebraska lags far behind other states, such as Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma, in developing wind energy and that without [read more]
Deals involving North American wind and solar energy projects were not only the most valuable but the most plentiful in 2012, according to a report from accounting, tax and advisory firm CohnReznick. The report, "Green Energy 2013: Renewable Energy M&A Activity in the Americas," focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) [read more]
Turbine manufacturer Nordex says developer O2 has purchased 24 of its N117/3000 turbines to power the 72 MW Maevaara wind farm, located in northern Sweden near the Finland border. Tech giant Google announced it is buying the output of the wind farm to run its local data center. According to [read more]
Construction service providers working on the 576 MW Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm, located off the coast of North Wales, report that more than half of the project's 160 monopiles have been installed. According to FoundOcean, the project focus has turned to securing the turbine pieces to the monopiles [read more]
Several renewable energy companies, including prominent wind industry developers and manufacturers, have formed a coalition to promote and support the Master Limited Partnerships (MLP) Parity Act. The coalition, named Financing America's Investment in Renewables (FAIR), is advocating for equal treatment between clean energy and fossil fuels that would allow average [read more]
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