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, May 14, 2014
GE Investigates Two New Blade Breaks; Wind Jobs Rise In 2013
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In 2013, about 834,000 people were employed in the wind power industry worldwide, an approximately 11% increase from 753,000 in 2012, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). However, employment opportunities in the sector saw a regional shift from developed to emerging countries. In addition, [read more]
Big-name offshore wind players Statoil, E.ON, Vattenfall and DONG Energy will vie to develop the 400 MW Horns Rev 3 wind project, to be located off the coast of Denmark. The Danish Energy Agency has prequalified the four companies to bid for the Horns Rev 3 tender. This means that [read more]
BIRD Energy, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources, has launched a new funding cycle for joint project proposals with a focus on renewable energy and energy efficiency. To be considered, a project proposal must include research [read more]
The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is calling on the British Columbia government to look at wind energy and consider it as an alternative to a proposed hydropower project meant to help meet future electricity needs. The Joint Review Panel has released a new study on Site C, a 1.1 [read more]
Enel Green Power North America (EGP-NA) has signed an agreement to purchase an additional 26% of the Class A interests in the 250 MW Buffalo Dunes wind farm in Kansas for approximately $60 million. The option to buy the additional interests from EFS Buffalo Dunes LLC, a GE Capital subsidiary, [read more]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC approval to sell transmission service to customers at negotiated rates. As proposed, the Grain Belt Express Clean Line is an approximately 750-mile, overhead direct-current transmission line that will deliver up to 3.5 GW and connect wind [read more]
Cape Wind has announced that a team, including three companies based in New Bedford, Mass., is involved with completing geophysical surveys of the developer's project site and offshore cable routes. The 468 MW Cape Wind offshore wind project is planned off the coast of Massachusetts. Survey vessels with a suite [read more]
Sanmina Corp. and Primus Power have announced a manufacturing agreement to produce grid-scale energy storage systems. Sanmina is an integrated manufacturing solutions company that provides a broad range of products for the energy markets, including the wind and solar power sectors. Primus Power has developed a distributed energy storage system [read more]
Deepwater Wind says it has received the first major environmental permit approvals needed to begin deployment of its Block Island Wind Farm, a 30 MW offshore wind demonstration project located off the coast of Block Island, R.I. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) has issued Deepwater Wind water [read more]
Gamesa ended the first quarter of 2014 (Q1'14) with EUR 17 million in net profit, more than double the EUR 7 million figure posted in the same quarter last year. Gamesa's revenues amounted to EUR 573 million - 17% higher than in Q1'13. The company says this improvement is attributable [read more]
In the first quarter of 2014 (Q1'14), Vestas stayed on its planned course for growth and recorded a profit following a series of losses over the past few years. The company's operating profit before special items in Q1'14 was EUR 40 million, compared to a EUR 108 million loss in [read more]
Project partners EDF Energies Nouvelles, Dong Energy and wpd offshore have chosen to demonstrate and install Seatower's patented Cranefree Gravity foundation design at their Fecamp offshore wind project off the coast of Normandy. Norwegian company Seatower says the Fecamp demonstration project, scheduled for early 2015, is the final step in [read more]
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