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, October 18, 2013
Developer Abandons Maine Project; Only One U.S. Wind Farm Commissioned In Q3
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Wind Works Power Corp. has obtained the two required permits for its 150 MW Thunder Spirit project, located in North Dakota. The company held a 75% interest in the project and has exercised its option to acquire the remaining 25%. The two principal permits required for Thunder Spirit are a [read more]
Goldwind USA has named its chief financial officer (CFO), David Halligan, interim CEO while the company conducts a search to replace former CEO Tim Rosenzweig, who recently joined solar developer SolarReserve as CFO. A search for a permanent CEO for the Americas is under way, the company notes. Halligan, part [read more]
Pattison Onestop, a Canadian digital out-of-home advertising company, is partnering with Bullfrog Power to offset the power consumed by its major indoor digital screen networks using renewable energy. Through the agreement, Bullfrog Power's generators put electricity from wind and hydro facilities onto the grid to match the amount of electricity [read more]
Construction work has commenced on the 129 MW Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, with drilling under way for the project's onshore cabling. The wind farm, located in the Netherlands, is a joint venture between energy company Eneco and Mitsubishi Corp. The project's 43 Vestas wind turbines will be located 23 km [read more]
Morrison & Foerster has announced that Jeffrey A. Chester, a project finance and renewable energy lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in Los Angeles. According to the company, Chester advises on global capital-raising transactions for the renewable and alternative energy space and has closed more than 50 wind [read more]
Regional transmission organization Southwest Power Pool (SPP) reports that its eight-state market recently reached a new wind generation peak, at least its third such record of the year. On Oct. 8, SPP's market experienced a new wind generation peak of 6,434 MW, and two days later, the record was beaten [read more]
Moog, a provider of blade pitch control, slip ring and rotor monitoring solutions for the wind energy industry, has launched its new AC Moog Wind Turbine Pitch System in China and integrated it at an offshore wind project in the region. The company notes that the system is also available [read more]
Kevin Alewine, director of renewable energy services for Dallas-based Shermco Industries, has been appointed to the Operations, Performance and Reliability Task Force for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Vision Project. According to Shermco, the DOE Wind Program is working in close cooperation with the wind industry to revisit [read more]
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