Massachusetts Supreme Court grants Cape Wind all state and local permits

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Excerpt: First off-shore U.S. wind farm moves ahead, will bring 1,000 green jobs to Massachusetts The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the ruling of a state energy board that had granted all state and local permits to Cape Wind, clearing the way for America’s first off-shore wind farm to pr …

China agrees to buy American

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Excerpt: A Chinese maker of turbines is headed to a Texas wind farm, agreeing to buy steel from U.S. producers after lawmakers objected to the foreign production of the equipment. The United Steelworkers Union announced that Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd based in Shenyang, China and Shenyang Power Gro …

NREL to explore legal routes to state feed-in-tariffs

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Excerpt: In a technical report NREL issued, “Renewable Energy Prices in State-Level Feed-in Tariffs: Federal Law Constraints and Possible Solutions,” the organization discusses how state legislatures and their utility commissions seeking to attract renewable energy projects are considering arrangements …

The story below the first full-scale floating wind turbine

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Excerpt: The innovative offshore floating Hywind wind turbine, moored in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast, demonstrates how Trelleborg Offshore’s syntactic foam buoyes contributes to the future of offshore power generation. “People see the tower and turbine, but forget that the expertise in desi …

Peacing together green communities

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Excerpt: In support of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), a partnership of Western Hemisphere governments, the Department of State will provide $1 million to fund Peace Corps volunteer efforts that increase rural access to energy, put the effects of climate change in check, and suppor …

Handling lightning on a North Dakota wind farm

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Excerpt: North Dakota’s flat plains and strong, steady winds make it ideal for wind farms. But this part of the country is especially susceptible to extreme weather conditions. Summer brings the threat of lightning strikes to the 300-foot tall turbines and brutally cold temperatures are commonplace in …

Company awarded DOE Grant

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Excerpt: General Compression, Inc. ("GC"), a Massachusetts company developing a compressed air energy storage system that burns no fuel when generating electricity, has been selected to receive up to $750,000 in the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E GRIDS) funding progra …

Pattern Energy Raises Nearly $1B In Equity For Wind

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Excerpt: Pattern Energy has raised $800 million in equity to fund a 2 GW development pipeline of wind projects in North America within the next five years. Riverstone Holdings was the primary contributor, with additional investment from company management and employees. Riverstone purchased the assets in …

Americans Making Power Act introduced in congress

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Excerpt: Earlier this month, Rep. Jay Inslee (WA-01) introduced the Americans Making Power Act, or AMP Act, which would establish a national standard for net metering.  The legislation would allow Americans to feed back into the grid's excess renewable power they generate through their homes, small business …

Study explores role of grid technologies in growth of U.S. wind energy

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Excerpt: A recent report, Business Strategy: Optimizing Transmission for Wind Integration examines the role of key transmission technologies essential for the rapid growth of the U.S. wind energy market. The report (Document # EI223579, June 2010) from IDC Energy Insights, Framingham, Mass., (idc.com) descri …