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, August 23, 2013
AWEA Reveals Best Chance For PTC Extension; Vestas Replaces CEO
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "North American Windpower" <efeature@nawindpower.com> Date: Aug 23, 2013 5:44 AM Subject: AWEA Reveals Best Chance For PTC Extension; Vestas Replaces CEO To: <aquarianm@gmail.com> Cc:
Renewable energy projects in the U.S. experienced a banner year in 2012, with wind deployment adding a record 13,124 MW of capacity and solar adding 3,313 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity, finds a new report from Ernst & Young. In fact, the report says renewables accounted for close to 50% [read more]
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo) has announced that its POWER Pledge program to build local stakeholder support for the development of an offshore wind farm on Lake Erie has now received more than 4,500 signatures from people living and working in northeast Ohio. According to LEEDCo, the demonstration [read more]
As part of a previously announced master supply agreement, Vestas will manufacture and supply its first V110-2.0 MW wind turbines for a combined 400 MW to EDP Renewables (EDPR) for projects in the U.S. These projects are part of the master supply agreement to deliver 1,500 MW to wind power [read more]
Renewable Energy Developers Inc. (RED) has completed the acquisition of four contracted Ontario wind projects, representing a gross capacity of 50 MW, from affiliates of Wind Works Power Corp. (WWPC). RED and an undisclosed financial partner provided secured loans to the projects during 2012. RED has co-developed the projects for [read more]
RES Offshore has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the design and installation of a power performance met mast for the 389 MW West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm for ScottishPower Renewables and DONG Energy. The power performance met mast will record weather data to support [read more]
Alstom has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to partner with a Finnish university and a team of developers to study how wind turbines respond under arctic climate conditions. The research, meant to further improve operations, performance and reliability, will also study the application of advanced ice detection sensors. Alstom, [read more]
Borea Construction ULC, a Canadian wind energy engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, has acquired wind turbine installation company Eagle West Wind Energy Inc. According to Borea, Eagle West has been involved in the installation of more than 1.1 GW of wind energy across Canada. As part of the purchase [read more]
The engineering support firm Babcock International Group has chosen the ZephIR 300 LIDAR system to collect wind data on its new floating LIDAR platform. Babcock's platform allows the ZephIR 300 to collect data offshore without the need for post-processing or compensation, ZephIR says. The platform also provides the stability needed [read more]
The installed capacity of renewable sources worldwide will reach an estimated 2,252.3 GW in 2020, finds a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The report says the past decade has witnessed massive developments in terms of regulations and markets for renewable energy. While fewer than 50 countries worldwide had renewable [read more]
New York-based AWS Truepower LLC has released a redesigned and expanded version of its Wind Trends Bulletin - a free quarterly report that examines deviations in global wind conditions from historical norms. The first-quarter 2013 (Q1'13) bulletin has expanded from Europe, India and North America to include South America, Africa, [read more]
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