RWE Renewables‘ El Algodon Alto, a 200-MW onshore wind farm, located in San Patricio County, Texas, is in operation. “We’re excited to announce another one of the projects in our development pipeline is operational,” said Silvia Ortin, CEO of onshore wind and solar PV Americas, RWE Renewables. “El Algodon Alto continues our momentum to providing…

Avangrid Renewables has achieved commercial operation at its 200-MW Golden Hills wind farm in Sherman County, Oregon. The facility, which provides enough renewable electricity to Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to power over 60,000 homes annually, began operations on April 29, 2022. The project supports PSE’s carbon dioxide emission reduction goals while providing additional capacity to…

By Kevin Pearce, grid access business development manager, Siemens Energy A planned offshore wind project in New York is gaining attention for its novel design that will, for the first time, leverage high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology to support offshore wind in the United States. In a consortium with Aker Solutions, Siemens Energy is supplying…

Enel Green Power North America has started construction of the 300-MW Seven Cowboy wind project in Kiowa and Washita counties in Oklahoma. Seven Cowboy’s 107 turbines are expected to generate over 1.3 TWh of energy each year, equivalent to the electricity needs of over 120,000 US households. The project is expected to generate over $55…

American Electric Power’s 998-MW Traverse Wind Energy Center, the single-largest wind farm built at one time in North America, is now providing clean energy to customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Developed by Invenergy, Traverse is expected to generate 3.8 million MWh annually for AEP’s Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) and Southwestern Electric Power…

Nexans has won a contract with Ørsted and Eversource to install and protect the export cable link for the Revolution Wind Farm. The project will connect the wind farm to the onshore grid and help Connecticut and Rhode Island states achieve ongoing commitments to develop offshore wind. This will be Nexans’ first cable installation project…

The Department of the Interior today announced the results of the nation’s highest-grossing competitive offshore energy lease sale in history, including oil and gas lease sales, with the New York Bight offshore wind sale. Today’s lease sale offered six lease areas totaling over 488,000 acres in the New York Bight for potential wind energy development…

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 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…

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…

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 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…

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,”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Leeward Renewable Energy successfully repowered the Crescent Ridge Wind Project in Tiskilwa, Illinois. The 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge repower included decommissioning nine turbines, repowering 24 legacy turbines and constructing four new Vestas turbines. “We are pleased that our Crescent Ridge project is operational and are proud to have provided jobs and other economic benefits to the…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan to invest $500 million in offshore wind and its related supply chain infrastructure. “With this investment, New York will lead the nation on offshore wind production, creating green jobs for New Yorkers, and powering our clean energy future,” Gov. Hochul said. “I am proud to make New York…