EDP Renewables hosts open house at Ind. wind farm

Analysis: Renewables drive job creation, water conservation | EDP Renewables hosts open house at Ind. wind farm | Orsted exec: N.J. should use one firm per wind farm, transmission line Created for aquarianm@gmail.com |  Web Version ADVERTISEMENT August 8, 2018 News for wind power professionals and advocates SIGN UP ⋅   FORWARD Industry Update Analysis: Renewables drive job creation, water conservation Everyone knows renewables such as wind and solar are great for curbing carbon emissions, but it should be recognized that they also reduce water consumption and create thousands of jobs, write Luciano Castillo and Jay Gore of Purdue University and Walter Gutierrez of Texas Tech University. Citing Energy Department data, they also note that renewables create significantly more jobs per gigawatt-hour of generation than coal or natural gas. Scientific American online (8/7)       EDP Renewables hosts open house at Ind. wind farm EDP Renewables North America offered tours of its 200-megawatt Meadow Lake VI Wind Farm in Indiana on Tuesday in honor of American Wind Week. EDP Renewables says the multiphase project will eventually have a total capacity of 1,000 MW, and that the open house gave visitors an inside look at the construction process and one of the world's largest cranes. Herald Journal (Monticello, Ind.) (8/7)       Orsted exec: N.J. should use one firm per wind farm, transmission line Developers that build wind farms off the coast of New Jersey should also be tasked with the corresponding transmission infrastructure, rather than divvying up the work among multiple firms, writes Thomas Brostrom, president of Orsted North America. Brostrom advocates a "full-scope approach," arguing that projects are more efficient when one company handles both aspects of the development process. 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