Repowering

East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) marked the commercial operation of the Scott Haggerty Wind Energy Center in Livermore, California. The wind farm is a re-powered source of clean energy for residents within its district that spans 14 cities and Alameda County. The new facility represents a $20 million investment into Alameda County through tax revenue…

Exus Management Partners has been selected to lead on the repowering of Illinois’ Big Sky Wind Farm by Vitol. The deal follows Vitol’s acquisition of the project from a BlackRock-managed fund earlier this year. Exus will play a central role in Vitol’s plan to invest more than $250 million to upgrade the project, with the…

RWE Renewables has partnered with GE Renewable Energy to repower its Panther Creek III wind farm in West Texas. The repowering of Panther Creek III includes the replacement of a significant portion of the wind turbine components, including the installation of longer blades and upgrading existing gearboxes. The refurbishment effectively increases the annual production for…

Leeward Renewable Energy successfully completed the repowering and final financial close of its Sweetwater 3 Wind Farm in Nolan County, Texas. Leeward procured the wind turbine equipment from GE Renewable Energy, which also provided construction services and is providing operations and maintenance services for the project. GE Energy Financial Services and BHE Renewables provided tax…

Pattern Energy Group has closed financing and started construction on the repowering of its Gulf Wind facility located in Kenedy County, Texas. Repowering the Gulf Wind facility will consist of removing the current wind turbines and replacing them with 118 new Siemens Gamesa SWT-2.3-108 turbines, which will generate 271.4 MW of capacity. Construction began on December…

PacifiCorp has acquired sole ownership of the Foote Creek I wind generation facility, a 41.4-MW renewable energy project in Carbon County, Wyoming. The company plans to repower the project with new turbine technology that will increase energy output of the entire facility by 60%. Foote Creek I was the company’s first wind facility and the…

Leeward Renewable Energy has successfully completed the full-scale repowering of its Mendota Hills Wind Farm in Lee County, Illinois. The repowering of Mendota was completed on March 21, 2019. The full-scale repower of Mendota included the decommissioning of the existing wind turbines and the installation of new foundations and WTGs to maximize efficiency and extend…

ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE, has received the 45th set of new wind-turbine blades from international blade manufacturer Tecsis. The blades are for ALLETE’s refurbishment initiative at its Storm Lake and Lake Benton wind facilities in Iowa and Minnesota, respectively. In August 2017, the company announced an $80 million project that…

Nordic Wind Technology has signed an agreement to retrofit 13 Suzlon S64 1.250MW turbines in Minnesota — which includes a controller upgrade for six turbines from Mita-Teknik. The retrofit solution will be installed during the coming months, and provide a completely new control environment for the Suzlon S64 turbines. It is based on turbine software…

Nephila Climate (NCx), the weather and ESG-driven specialty division of Nephila Holdings Ltd. announced the first use of a Proxy Revenue Swap (PRS) for the re-powering of a wind project. Ares Management Corporation, a global alternative asset manager, is the first to use the PRS structure for a repowered project. A PRS is a hedging contract that…

Written by Kimberlee Centera, CEO & Founder TerraPro Solutions At one time wind-farm developers planned for decommissioning at the end of a wind-farm’s lifecycle. However, the availability of more efficient components and turbines means that trend is changing. Repowering is now an important option for some aging wind farms, but it is a process and…

Bureau Veritas, a provider of testing, inspection, and certification TIC services, has successfully completed a Lifetime Extension (LTE) Assessment on an aging wind farm. Ultimately, a three-year LTE was granted and implemented at a fraction of cost of a full repowering. Improvements in maintenance and inspection plans for the wind farm were also achieved. The…

EDF Renewables North America has signed a multi-year agreement with Phoenix Wind Repower, a portfolio investment of a fund managed by the Infrastructure and Power strategy at Ares Management Corporation, to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services for three wind projects located in Texas. With this agreement, EDF Renewables’ Asset Optimization portfolio has reached over 2,300 MW in Texas,…

Vestas has received a 359-MW order to repower a portfolio of three projects in Texas from Phoenix Wind Repower, which is a portfolio investment of a fund managed by the Infrastructure and Power strategy of Ares Management Corporation, a global alternative asset manager. The order is Vestas’ largest repowering order to date. The total capacity…

Ares Management Corporation announced that a fund managed by its Infrastructure and Power strategy has closed on the acquisition of three operating utility-scale wind facilities in Texas from BP Wind Energy North America, Inc. Ares plans to repower the wind sites. The acquisition includes two wind facilities located in the ERCOT West region: the 145-MW…

Shell Energy North America (US) L.P. and Coachella Hills Wind LLC recently signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement to procure up to 100 MW of wind energy from the Coachella Hills Wind project being developed by Terra-Gen, LLC. The Coachella Hills Wind project, in Palm Springs, CA, represents a repowering of the existing Coachella Flats and…

Vestas has received an order from PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for 47 V110-2.0 MW turbines in 2.2-MW Power Optimized Mode. PacifiCorp aims to repower 47 Senvion MM92 2-MW turbines at the Goodnoe Hills wind project in Washington, U.S., increasing the project’s nameplate capacity from its original 94 to 103 MW. The project was…

The North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) recently approved the first set of decommissioning plans for wind farms since new rule changes were approved last year. According to the PSC, the rules approved strengthen requirements for future wind projects and ensure they are properly decommissioned at the end of their use. The changes were put in place…

Vestas has received an order for 216 MW of V100-2.0 MW turbine components, excluding towers, from PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The order is to repower the Marengo wind project, commissioned in 2007, and Marengo II wind project, commissioned in 2008, both located in Washington. PacifiCorp plans to repower the projects’ existing V80-1.8…

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has signed two agreements with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources to repower 508 MW in the US at three wind farms in Texas. Under the first agreement, SGRE will repower 362 units of Vestas’ V47 wind turbines at the Indian Mesa and Woodward wind farms in Texas. The V47…