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, November 20, 2013
Another GE Blade Breaks Off, Leading To Further Investigation
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Vestas plans to invest EUR 10 million to launch V112-3.0 MW blade production at its Taranto, Italy, blade factory. The company says it will offer employment opportunities to a number of the 120 workers it laid off after recently closing its nacelle plant in the region. Vestas is committed to [read more]
Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo) has announced that a new report determines its 18 MW Icebreaker offshore demonstration project will have no biologically significant impact on the birds and bats that frequent the Lake Erie area. "The weight of evidence gathered from studies conducted over many years is quite [read more]
PNM, a subsidiary of PNM Resources and New Mexico's largest electric utility, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for renewable energy resources totaling 150,000 MWh produced and delivered to customers in 2016. "We are looking for solid proposals that will help us provide affordable and reliable power to meet [read more]
Duke Energy Carolinas has filed a new renewable energy program with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC). Duke says the Green Source Rider is an experimental program designed to give energy-intensive customers, including manufacturers, data centers, college campuses and big-box retailers, the option of offsetting some or all of their [read more]
Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC, an affiliate of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, has issued a request for information (RFI) to wind generators in Kansas. The RFI will gather information about the generators' demand for transmission capacity. According to Clean Line, data collected will allow the company to better [read more]
GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has awarded Siemens a "provisional type certificate" for the manufacturer's 6 MW offshore wind turbine. According to GL RC, the certificate is a milestone toward the final certification of the wind turbine. It attests the conformity of the wind turbine design, manufacturing and testing processes [read more]
Project development company Pennant Walters has ordered nine 2.5-MW wind turbines from Nordex, including five N100/2500 and four N90/2500 models, for the Welsh wind farm Mynydd Bwllfa. Construction on the Mynydd Bwllfa project will commence in October 2014, and the project is expected to go online in 2015. Nordex notes [read more]
NextEra Energy Inc., a Florida-based clean energy company, plans to make an offering of 11.1 million shares of its common stock in a registered underwritten public offering. The company says it will use net proceeds to fund investments in energy and power projects, including renewable power projects, and for other [read more]
American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC), a Massachusetts-based provider of wind energy and power grid solutions, has entered into an amendment to its existing senior term loan with Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc. and an at market issuance (ATM) sales agreement with MLV & Co. LLC. The terms of the amendment with [read more]
REpower, part of the Suzlon Group, has announced a new offshore wind turbine. Dubbed the REpower 6.2M152, the turbine has a rated power capacity of 6.15 MW and a rotor diameter of 152 meters. According to the company, the larger rotor diameter compared to the last generation - the REpower [read more]
Siemens has won a 582 MW order from DONG Energy to supply two German offshore wind farms. Under the agreement, Siemens will provide 97 of its new 6 MW wind turbines, each with a rotor diameter of 154 meters. The Gode Wind 1 (252 MW) and Gode Wind 2 (330 [read more]
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), MidAmerican Transmission LLC and Citizens Energy Corp. have been chosen by the California Independent System Operator Corp. to develop, own and operate a new 230 kV transmission line in the Central Valley region of California. According to PG&E, the transmission line will span about [read more]
Sky Harvest Energy Corp. has sold its interest in assets relating to its Sky Harvest Project, located in southwestern Saskatchewan, to an unnamed buyer. Sky Harvest simply says the purchaser is "a major Canadian wind power development company," and the deal includes leasehold interests in approximately 15,000 acres of land, [read more]
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kans., a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is leading an attack against the wind production tax credit (PTC). The congressman and about 50 other House members have jointly issued a letter asking House Ways and Means Committee Chairman David Camp, R-Mich., to allow the [read more]
Mexico WindPower 2014, taking place in Mexico City in February, will cover 100% of its power consumption by wind energy and be labeled by WindMade. The Mexican Wind Energy Association, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and E.J. Krause are jointly organizing the event. In order to qualify for the [read more]
Northeast Wind, the joint venture of First Wind and Emera, has issued a new corporate credit facility consisting of a $320 million term loan B debt facility and a $75 million letter of credit facility. According to the companies, pricing on the new term loan was set at LIBOR plus [read more]
GLWN, a non-profit wind energy advisory group and supply chain network, says it has expanded its U.S. supply chain capabilities with the appointment of Mathew Bramson as manager of supply chain research. In this newly created role, Bramson enhances GLWN's service to regional economic-development groups seeking to engage their manufacturing [read more]
The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) says its Active Wake Control system is capable of increasing the electricity production of wind farms by 0.5% to 5%. Additionally, ECN expects that maintenance costs could be reduced by 3%. According to the research center, ECN has tested the technology on [read more]
Social network company Facebook will power its new Iowa data center using wind energy from the 138.6 MW Wellsburg wind farm, which MidAmerican Energy is currently building in the state. Vincent Van Son, Facebook's data center energy manager, explains in an online post, "We first started working on this project [read more]
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