Smartive, the smart technology platform provider to the clean energy industry and backed by InnoEnergy, has secured a major contract with Acciona projects to monitor 1,000 of its wind turbines. The initial engagement will run for a year, with the option to extend. Over the period, Smartive will examine 15% of Acciona’s global wind fleet…
Pattern Energy enters sales agreement for 90 MW of K2 Wind power facility in Ontario
Pattern Energy Group announced it has entered into an agreement for the sale of the company’s 90-MW minority owned interest in the K2 Wind power facility in Ontario for a purchase price of $216.0 CAD ($166.0 million U.S.), to a consortium of investors led by Axium Infrastructure. “K2 was a good candidate for recycling given…
Ingeteam’s DFIG converter receives DNV GL component certification
Ingeteam, a supplier of electrical conversion equipment, announced today that it received DNV GL’s certification for its Ingecon Wind stator-equipped 2-MW DFIG converter. With this latest achievement, Ingeteam completes the range of its products covered under DNV GL certification, such as the medium voltage full power converters and the statorless DFIG converters; and demonstrates its…
Ullico invests in 70 wind and solar projects, totaling 1.3 GW of renewable energy
Ullico announced that it has agreed to invest in a portfolio of over 70 solar and wind power generation projects located all over the United States and owned by affiliates of Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and The AES Corporation (AES), who will retain a majority stake in the portfolio. The wind and solar farms…
Siemens onshore power is helping build the world’s largest cruise ships
Siemens has received an order from MV WERFTEN Wismar GmbH to supply and install turnkey Siharbor onshore power supplies. The onshore power supply system will be used to build “Global Class” cruise ships. Measuring 340 meters (about 1,115 ft.) in length and providing space for more than 5,000 passengers, these vessels are the world’s largest…
ALLETE Clean Energy sells second phase of 155-MW Thunder Spirit wind project
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALLETE, today closed an approximately $84 million sale of the 48-MW phase two of the Thunder Spirit wind facility in North Dakota to Montana-Dakota Utilities. Montana-Dakota Utilities, a division of MDU Resources Group, which owns and operates Thunder Spirit’s first phase also built by ALLETE Clean Energy, exercised…
ENGIE North America begins 196-MW East Fork Wind Project in Kansas
ENGIE North America announced the start of construction of the 196-MW East Fork Wind Project in Thomas County, Kansas. Located near the city of Colby in northwest Kansas, the East Fork Wind Project is the second phase of the larger Solomon Forks Wind Project (276 MW) currently under construction. The East Fork project, located immediately…
NIPSCO reveals initiative to cut 90% of Northern Indiana carbon emissions by 2028
Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource Inc., unveiled an initiative to transition customers to a more affordable and sustainable energy mix. Referred to as “Your Energy, Your Future”, the effort detailed in the company’s 2018 Integrated Resource Plan, lays out a forward-looking blueprint to transition Northern Indiana’s energy generation away from…