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, April 04, 2014
Senate Committee Pushes PTC Extension Forward
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Suzlon Group, through U.S.-based subsidiary SWECO, has acquired the 240 MW Big Sky wind park in Illinois from Edison Mission Energy (EME). Suzlon announced the deal in a filing with the National Stock Exchange of India but did not disclose financial details. When contacted, a Suzlon company spokesperson declined to [read more]
The Alberta Utilities Commission has issued Enel Green Power a three-year permit extension to construct the 33 MW second phase of its 109 MW Castle Rock Ridge wind power plant. The original March 31, 2014, deadline has been extended to March 31, 2017. According to a regulatory filing, Enel submitted [read more]
The U.S. clean energy sector continues to be buffeted by policy uncertainty, with 2013 investment down 9% from 2012 to $36.7 billion, according to a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The report finds that steep declines in the installation of wind overshadowed a record annual deployment of 4.4 [read more]
Argosy Wind Power, a U.S.-based manufacturer of small-scale wind turbines, has moved its global headquarters to a larger facility in Aurora, Ohio. The company says the move was necessary to meet growing demands for its direct-drive turbines by vendors in Europe, South America, North America and Asia. After just two [read more]
GE and PowerStream Inc., an energy portfolio company, have launched their first joint microgrid demonstration project, located at PowerStream's headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario. The companies say the project will demonstrate how consumers and utilities may be able to generate and distribute their own energy using renewables to address the growing [read more]
Nordex says that over the last few weeks, demand for its wind turbines for light-wind locations has grown at an unabated rate. Thanks to recent orders, Nordex is exceeding 1 GW in installations and projects under construction using its N117/2400 machines. In Germany alone, the company says it has received [read more]
Austria-based Bachmann electronic GmbH has announced Wind Power Scada (WPS), the company's latest system solution utilizing its Wind Turbine Template controller software package. Bachmann says the WPS is based on atvise scada - a product from Certec, a company of the Bachmann Group - and, therefore, all types of visualization [read more]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has published an environmental assessment (EA) for a wind energy resource project offshore Georgia. Atlanta-based Southern Co. has requested to lease an area covering three Outer Continental Shelf blocks, approximately three to 11 nautical miles off the coast of Tybee Island, with the [read more]
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed self-generation and net-energy metering (NEM) legislation (H.702) into law. The new law raises the 4% cap utilities had been using as the limit on their NEM programs to 15% of peak load. The legislation applies to grid-connected renewable energy generation systems smaller than 500 [read more]
NRG Energy Inc. has officially completed its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Edison Mission Energy (EME) for $2.635 million. Under the deal, which received its final regulatory approval in March, NRG will acquire EME's 8 GW conventional and renewable generation portfolio throughout the U.S., including about 1.7 GW [read more]
Vestas has signed a new five-year revolving credit facility totaling EUR 1 billion - an increase from the EUR 850 million amount originally agreed upon in February. The facility is now arranged by a group of six banks, rather than four, including Nordea, DNB, HSBC, SEB, Societe Generale and UniCredit. [read more]
The Global Energy Storage Alliance (GESA) has been established as an international nonprofit organization to bring together energy storage and clean energy industry associations to help advance education, collaboration and frameworks about the benefits of energy storage. Co-founders of GESA include the U.S. Energy Storage Association, California Energy Storage Alliance, [read more]
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