GE develops new software for wind, industrial sites

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Texas governor passes bill restricting tax exemptions for wind farms | Maine may solve infrastructure issues by clustering grid connections | Enel Green Power installs 45th turbine at 90-MW project in Brazil Created for aquarianm@gmail.com |  Web Version June 13, 2017 News for wind power professionals and advocates SIGN UP ⋅   FORWARD Industry Update Texas governor passes bill restricting tax exemptions for wind farms Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill that will prevent wind farms located within 25 nautical miles of a military base from receiving the state's property tax exemption. The Wind Coalition President Jeffrey Clark continues to object to the bill, arguing that it's unnecessary because the military and Federal Aviation Administration already review wind farms near military bases. He said the bill is also unfair to rural landowners and will interfere with wind farms that would have economically benefited the state. North American Windpower online (6/12)       Maine may solve infrastructure issues by clustering grid connections (Scott Olson/Getty Images) An ISO-New England committee tasked with resolving Maine's infrastructure bottleneck has proposed a strategy to carry wind energy between wind farms in windy rural areas to the cities and areas that have high demand. The strategy involves using an approach to grid connections called clustering that allows developers to bundle their connection requests instead of using a first-come, first-serve process. Bangor Daily News (Maine) (free registration) (6/12)         Is your AWS environment needlessly exposed? Poor configurations and hasty implementations have led to more than one critical security breach. Here are five quick must-do's that can provide tangible benefits in safeguarding your AWS environment now. ADVERTISEMENT Project Focus Enel Green Power installs 45th turbine at 90-MW project in Brazil Enel Green Power has finished installing 45 turbines at the 90-megawatt Cristalandia project in Bahia, Brazil, according to the company. The project has a 20-year power purchase agreement with a Brazilian group of power providers. ReNews (UK) (6/13)       UPC Renewables plans 2 wind farms in Tasmania UPC Renewables plans to build a pair of wind farms in Tasmania that will likely have a combined capacity between 600 megawatts and 1,000 MW, said the company. "The Robbins Island project itself is a very large isolated site and, together with Jims Plain, have some of the best proven wind resources in the world," said UPC Renewables Australia CEO Andy Rohner. CleanTechnica (6/12)       5 ways to help your office work smarter It's hardly a secret that the most successful small businesses are the ones with the smartest people. But when they have to work with not-so-smart tech, their time and talent gets wasted. It's bad for the business. It's time to get smart > ADVERTISEMENT Operations & Maintenance GE develops new software for wind, industrial sites General Electric has been working on new software that will use big data to increase productivity and streamline repairs at wind farms, power plants and other industrial applications, the company said at a showcase in Germany today. It added that it expects orders for Predix, its software for analyzing turbine and wind farm data, to hit $1 billion this year. Bloomberg (6/13)       E.ON extends wind O&M services to Italy, UK E.ON has expanded its operations and maintenance business and will now offer services for land-based and offshore wind in Italy and the UK, said E.ON. "We are able to draw on our experience in operating our own wind farms and apply it to the services we provide in Italy and the UK," said E.ON Climate & Renewables CEO Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath. ReNews (UK) (6/13)       Economy, Energy & Trends Flannery to succeed Immelt as GE CEO Flannery and Immelt (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) General Electric has picked John Flannery, a longtime executive who has spent most of his career in dealmaking and finance, to succeed CEO Jeff Immelt as the company faces shareholder unhappiness about stagnant profit. Immelt sold most of GE's financial businesses after the financial crisis and moved the headquarters to Boston. The New York Times (free-article access for SmartBrief readers) (6/12),  The Boston Globe (tiered subscription model) (6/12)         Policy Watch Scottish regulator reject 8-turbine wind farm Scotland's Planning and Environmental Appeals Division has rejected 2020 Renewables' request to build an eight-turbine wind farm dubbed the Loch Hill project. The division said the project's negative effect on the visual landscape outweighed its potential benefits. ReNews (UK) (6/13)       Australian lawmakers deny wind-solar hybrid project The Australian government has rejected a hybrid project proposed for Lord Howe Island that would have featured two turbines and a solar farm. Chris Murray, one of the residents that supported the project, said it could have helped the low-lying island deal with increases in sea level and other issues associated with climate change. ABC (Australia) (6/13)       AWEA News Fort Hood uses wind power to protect mission readiness Over the last few years, we've seen an increasing number of Fortune 500 companies and cities power more of their operations using wind energy. They often cite wind's low-cost, price stability and pollution-free qualities as driving factors. Now, a new player has entered the wind market: the US Army. Learn more.      Learn more about AWEA: AWEA Home | Events | Take Action AWEA Facebook | AWEA Twitter | AWEA LinkedIn CAREERS IN WIND powered by Permitting Policy & Environmental Affairs Analyst AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION - Dist. Columbia Wind Plant Optimization Sales Engineer RENEWABLE NRG SYSTEMS - Hinesburg, Vermont View More Listings | Post a Job If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. Steve Weinberg, physicist      These stories were selected and summarized by independent editors at SmartBrief Inc., not by AWEA's staff, and do not represent AWEA positions. They reflect the variety of daily coverage of American wind power. 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