The future recently arrived in Oregon, says Portland General Electric, in its new Salem Smart Power Center, an 8,000-ft² facility in Salem, Ore., that offers a insider’s view of a working, smart-grid demonstration project. Outfitted with a large-scale energy storage, the center will help PGE test how to store and better integrate variable renewable energy sources
Timken and Stark St. College open Technology and Test Center
June 18, 2013 : 0 Comments
The testing facility focuses on large bearing systems and is the first of its kind in the Americas. A collaboration between The Timken Co. www.timken.com) and Stark State College led to development of the new Technology and Test Center, the first testing facility of its kind to be constructed in the Americas. The $14 million
Divergent outlooks for North America and Latin America
June 17, 2013 : 0 Comments
This report summary comes from MAKE Consulting MAKE Consulting expects the Americas region to add nearly 92 GW of new wind power capacity from 2013 to 2020, but the rate of growth will be significantly different between North America and Latin America. Despite macroeconomic headwinds in North America, enough demand exists to support average build
CohnReznick releases report on renewables M&A activity focusing on the Americas
June 17, 2013 : 0 Comments
Findings show positive global outlook. U.S. the most attractive country for investors Accounting, tax, and advisory firm CohnReznick LLP has released a report, “Green Energy 2013: Renewable Energy M&A Activity in the Americas”, published in collaboration with Clean Energy Pipeline. The report focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the renewable energy sector in
Coalition of RE companies advocate a level playing field for clean energy
June 17, 2013 : 0 Comments
Founding members of the Financing America’s Investment in Renewables (FAIR) Coalition include leaders in the renewable energy industry and call for support of the Master Limited Partnerships (MLP) Parity Act Leading renewable energy companies from across the country have announced the formation of a coalition to advocate for equal treatment between clean energy and fossil fuels
UpWind Solutions joins the UN’s Global Compact Initiative
June 12, 2013 : 0 Comments
UpWind Solutions, Inc. is a wind industry third-party provider of asset management operations and maintenance services (O&M) with 2.5+ GW in their fleet. In April, they joined the UN’s voluntary corporate citizenship initiative Global Compact to help maintain high standards for social responsibility while positioning themselves on a global scale. UpWind supports the 10 principles
Office of Naval Research: Second gen high-temp superconducting generator program
June 10, 2013 : 0 Comments
Editor’s note: If you did not pay close attention to developments in superconductivity, you might think it’s all just research. Actually, a few superconducting products are slowly coming to commercialization. The program review here provides a peek into generator design from the Navy’s perspective. Success for the Navy means more efficient wind turbines. The review
Aquinergy picks Natural Power to remotely monitor Mass. wind farms
June 10, 2013 : 0 Comments
Aquinergy, developer of 250 kW to 20 MW wind and solar projects, has appointed Natural Power in partnership with Rev1 Renewables as the provider of remote monitoring services and access control on two single turbine projects located in the towns of Kingston and Ipswich, MA. Natural Power, which runs the 24/7/365 wind farm operational control
FERC staff presents annual market report on the state of energy markets
June 10, 2013 : 0 Comments
This article comes from law firm Troutman Sanders LLP On May 16, 2013, FERC’s Office of Enforcement and Office of Electric Reliability jointly presented their annual assessment of the condition and reliability of the energy market to FERC. The presentation, titled Summer 2013 Energy Market and Reliability Assessment, predicted an increase in natural gas prices due
Top 7 recent Windpower Engineering & Development search areas
June 7, 2013 : 0 Comments
Google analytics keeps its all-seeing eye on what people search for. On the Windpowerengineering.com, the inquisitive search most often on these topic areas. To save a little time, we relocated several promising articles in each area. So in reverse order of demand, here what the collective (you) found most interesting: 7 Suppliers http://www.windpowerengineering.com/suppliers/ 6
