Repowering

Despite years of investment and innovation, the U.S. energy transition continues to lag. According to Ember, a globally recognized climate and energy think tank, wind and solar accounted for just over 17% of America’s electricity generation in 2024 — far from what’s needed to reach net-zero targets. Transmission bottlenecks, overloaded interconnection queues, and stalled feasibility…

UPC Power Solutions confirmed the successful completion of the repowering of all eight projects in its Stockyard Wind Portfolio. The last of the newly repowered turbines achieved full commercial operation this week, marking the culmination of an ambitious, multi-phase effort to restore, modernize and enhance 79 aging wind turbines on sites spread across the Texas…

Exus Renewables North America has begun repowering the 139-MW Twin Ridges Wind Farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, as part of a planned $200 million investment in the community. Wind energy repowering involves upgrading older wind turbines or entire wind farms with the latest technology to increase their efficiency, capacity, and lifespan. This process typically includes…

Avangrid, member of the Iberdrola Group, announced the signing of a new power purchase agreement (PPA) with Amazon to source renewable energy from an Avangrid wind farm located in Gilliam County, Oregon. The Amazon Wind Farm Oregon – Leaning Juniper IIA will have a capacity of 98.4 MW. “We are proud to have signed this…

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…

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…

Scout Clean Energy and Peninsula Clean Energy have signed a 15-year PPA that will provide San Mateo County and Los Banos with 76.35 MW by repowering the Pacheco Pass Wind Farm in Merced County. Purchased from International Turbine Research in 2018, Scout returned the wind farm in Pacheco State Park to operation and will rename…

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,…