Pattern Energy held a grand opening for its Western Spirit Wind power facilities in Central New Mexico. The four wind projects located in Guadalupe, Lincoln and Torrance Counties total more than 1,050 MW, enough to provide power to 900,000 Americans annually. “This project is doing it all: creating good-paying jobs, providing clean power to New…
Leeward repowers and expands Aragonne Wind project to 235 MW
Leeward Renewable Energy has successfully completed the construction of its two Aragonne projects, which included repowering its existing Aragonne Wind project and the construction of the new Aragonne Mesa Wind project. Located in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, the projects will provide 200 MW of wind power generation over a 20-year period to Arizona Public Service…
COWI to engineer turbine foundations for Empire Wind offshore projects
Engineering consulting group COWI has been contracted by Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and BP, to deliver turnkey design for the wind turbine foundations for Empire Wind 1 and 2 off the coast of Long Island, New York With an anticipated generation capacity of more than 2 GW of renewable power, the…
Megger enhances KC series test leads for lightning protection on wind turbines
Megger has enhanced its KC series of test leads used with wind turbines. KC-C test leads are lightweight, making them safe for use at extreme heights, and are designed to work with Megger’s DLRO2 low resistance hand-held ohmmeter long test lead mode to measure the resistance of the lightning protection circuit of wind turbines. These…
New portable drone from Sulzer & Schmid ideal for turbine inspections in complex geographies
Sulzer & Schmid Laboratories AG has released its latest drone solution, 3DX Smart Pilot, specifically developed for complex site geographies that require quick, highly portable turbine blade inspection solutions. “The compact design of 3DX SmartPilot makes it particularly well-suited for inspections of wind farms operating in very remote locations but also for ad-hoc inspections. It’s…
“Groundbreaking” held for New York’s South Fork offshore wind farm
The South Fork Wind offshore project has officially begun construction after a “groundbreaking” today attended by Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The first offshore wind project for New York and the second commercial-scale offshore project approved in federal waters in the United States, South Fork will have a…
Sempra Infrastructure completes first cross-border wind farm between US and Mexico
Sempra Infrastructure started operations on Phase II of its Energía Sierra Juàrez (ESJ) wind farm in Tecate, Baja California. ESJ, the first cross-border renewable energy project between Mexico and the United States, now provides 263 MW of zero-carbon electricity to the California electricity market. “The expansion of our ESJ wind farm demonstrates our efforts to…
Reuters event Global Energy Transition 2022 will be in NYC in June
Reuters Events has released details on its Global Energy Transition 2022 event this June. The two-day, New York-based event aims to unite chief executive officers and senior stakeholders from the energy, industrial and government spheres to help global businesses turn their net-zero emissions ambitions into tangible actions. Last year, the Global Energy Transition event featured…
Rhode Island shipyards will build five crew transfer vessels for Northeast offshore wind farms
Ørsted and Eversource have selected two regional vessel operators that will partner with Rhode Island shipyards to build crew transfer vessels (CTVs) serving the offshore wind companies’ Northeast wind farms. Joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource will charter five new offshore wind CTVs from New York-based WindServe Marine and Massachusetts-based American Offshore Services (AOS). WindServe…
Construction underway on 250-MW Sapphire Sky Wind farm in Illinois
Global renewable energy developer Invenergy started construction on the 250-MW Sapphire Sky Wind Energy Center located in McLean County, Illinois. Sapphire Sky Wind broke ground at the end of 2021 and is scheduled to begin commercial operations in December of 2022. “We’re proud to be expanding Invenergy’s notable footprint in our home state of Illinois,”…
Ocean Winds adopts maintenance management services from Shoreline Winds for global wind portfolio
Software developer Shoreline Wind has been selected by Ocean Winds, a global offshore wind developer, to supply its proprietary computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) that can handle the day-to-day operation of OW’s project portfolio. Since its start in 2014, Shoreline Wind introduced an integrated life-cycle asset management cloud platform, which provides solutions from early project…
EDP Renewables repowers 2nd phase of Blue Canyon Wind Farm in Oklahoma
EDP Renewables North America completed its Blue Canyon II Wind Farm repowering, shoring up the future of renewable power for Caddo and Kiowa Counties. EDP Renewables North America completed its first repowering project at the Blue Canyon II Wind Farm, which is one phase of the 423-MW four-phase project located in southwestern Oklahoma. EDPR NA…
Inrotech to supply welding robots to Welcon for floating foundations
Inrotech announced it has received an order of several welding robots developed for vertical multipass welds by the Danish wind tower manufacturer Welcon. The Inrotech-Vertigo will be used during construction of floating foundations for offshore wind turbines. Inrotech’s automated robot welding solution is specifically designed according to Welcons’ requirements in order to efficiently handle complex…
132-MW South Fork offshore wind project approved to start construction
South Fork Wind, New York’s first offshore wind farm, has received approval of the project’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP) from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which is the final decision needed from the agency to move the project toward the start of construction. The COP approval outlines…
Apex Clean Energy begins developing North Dakota’s largest wind project
Minnesota electric cooperative Great River Energy has reached an agreement with Apex Clean Energy to receive renewable energy from a 400-MW wind energy project in McLean County, North Dakota. The Discovery Wind project, expected to reach commercial operations in 2025, will be the single largest wind project in North Dakota and will deliver renewable energy…
Biden Administration opens New York Bight area to potentially 7 GW of offshore wind leases
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a wind auction next month for more than 480,000 acres offshore New York and New Jersey, in the area known as the New York Bight. The Feb. 23 auction will allow offshore wind developers to bid on six lease areas – the most areas ever offered…
Nexans contracted for 110-km high-voltage subsea cables for New York’s South Fork offshore project
Nexans has received the first order under the frame agreement to manufacture approximately 110 km of high-voltage subsea cables to South Fork Wind, a joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource. The 3-phase 138-kV high-voltage alternative current (HVAC) subsea export cables will be integrated with two fiber-optic cables and transmit 132 MW of electricity to Long…
BOEM seeks public comment on Gulf of Mexico, Coastal California offshore wind proposals
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of permitting 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced the release of its draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on the potential impacts from future commercial leasing and related site characterization and assessment activities within the Humboldt Wind Energy Area…
Portuguese startup is developing safer wind turbine blade maintenance measures
Eptune Engineering has developed a series of innovations to improve wind turbine blade access and repair in harsh meteorological conditions. Wind turbine blades are one of the more costly components to maintain. The inspection and maintenance are commonly made by ropes or via suspended aluminum platforms that allow access to the wind blades. These activities…
Pattern hooks 1-GW Western Spirit Wind portfolio to grid in New Mexico
Pattern Energy Group has completed construction and begun commercial operation of its suite of Western Spirit Wind power projects. Western Spirit Wind is comprised of four wind power facilities totaling more than 1,050 MW located in Guadalupe, Lincoln, and Torrance Counties in central New Mexico. “Western Spirit Wind is a groundbreaking megaproject that demonstrates large-scale…