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, August 28, 2013
Wind VC Funding Leaps In Q2; Firm Plans New England's Largest Project
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Over the next three decades, renewable energy and nuclear power will be the world's fastest-growing energy sources, each increasing by 2.5% per year, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). However, fossil fuels will continue to supply almost 80% of world energy use through 2040. [read more]
Gamesa has commissioned its G128-5.0 MW offshore prototype at the Arinaga Quay in the Canary Islands, marking the first offshore wind turbine connected to the grid in Spain. The 5 MW machine has a rotor diameter of 128 meters and a total height of 154 meters. Gamesa began the installation [read more]
PacifiCorp has signed two power purchase agreements (PPAs) with developer Apex Clean Energy to buy a total 160 MW from the Long Ridge Wind Farm, to be located in Millard County, Utah. The Long Ridge Wind Farm, comprising two 80 MW projects, will cost about $230 million to develop and [read more]
Renewable Energy Developers Inc. (ReD), formerly Sprott Power, and partner Genera Avante Holdings Canada Inc. report they have refinanced all existing long-term debt of the 62.1 MW Glen Dhu wind farm, located in Nova Scotia. In November 2012, ReD acquired Canadian developer Shear Wind and its project portfolio, including the [read more]
GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has issued a statement of compliance to the wind turbine developer aerodyn for the A-Design Assessment of its 3 MW horizontal-axis wind turbine design. GL RC says the A-Design Assessment consists of a complete examination of the design analyses with all required material and component [read more]
GE has announced that the 22 MW Santa Catarina wind farm is now online in Mexico. The project features eight GE 2.75-103 turbines, and the company expects the wind farm to generate 45 GW of power annually. The Santa Catarina wind farm is a result of a joint effort between [read more]
GDF SUEZ and EDP Renewables have signed an agreement to participate jointly in the next public tender for offshore wind projects in France, whose final purpose is the development and installation of a total of 1 GW in French waters - 500 MW in Le Treport (Haute-Normandie) and 500 MW [read more]
Siemens has been chosen to supply, install and service 76 direct-drive turbines at Vattenfall's Pen y Cymoedd onshore wind farm, located in Wales, U.K. The wind power plant will be developed in the coastal mountain range between the harbor city of Port Talbot and the county borough of Rhondda Cynon [read more]
The New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST) and DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability have partnered to invest nearly $23 million to build and grow the new Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Testing and Commercialization Center in Rochester, N.Y. Under the partnership agreement, DNV KEMA will provide [read more]
Gamesa reports it has obtained EUR 22 million in net income in the first half of this year (1H'13), compared with a loss of EUR 33 million in the same period in 2012. The company says the results continue a trend to improved profitability that commenced in the first quarter [read more]
GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has been chosen by AMSC to conduct the A-Design Assessment of its 5.5 MW full conversion offshore wind turbine (WT5000FC). GL RC says the A-Design Assessment comprises a thorough evaluation of the turbine, ensuring that it meets the requirements of GL RC's "Guideline for the [read more]
RWE Innogy says it is testing a new method for measuring wind data at the 576 MW Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm, which is currently under construction off the North Wales, U.K., coast. The company has installed a low-motion buoy with a LIDAR system attached to the current met [read more]
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