Community wind

Greenbacker Renewable Energy brought RoxWind, a 15.3-MWDC wind farm in Roxbury, Maine, to commercial operation in November. The RoxWind project’s wind power is expected to produce nearly 50,300 MWh of annual clean energy, or enough to power approximately 4,500 homes per year. The project has also supported — and continues to provide — local clean…

Greenbacker Renewable Energy announced that, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, it purchased the rights to a two-turbine 5-MW wind project, Holiday Hill, from Cornerstone Renewables. Located in Russell, Massachusetts, Holiday Hill is contracted to sell electricity through 25-year offtake agreements with three local utilities. “The Holiday Hill project is an excellent addition to Greenbacker’s wind portfolio,…

A Hunt Companies affiliate announced it has partnered with Circle Power to finance and develop two 20-MW wind energy projects in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The projects will be comprised of four turbines each on two separate sites and will contribute low-cost renewable generation capacity to the local area. Hunt, a fourth-generation family-owned company, based in…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released annual market reports documenting data and trends in wind installations, technologies, costs, prices, and performance through the end of 2018 for three sectors: utility-scale land-based, offshore, and distributed wind. “Onshore wind energy installation continues to grow across the country, and this Administration has proven that we can…

Energy retailer, Kiwi Energy, is offering an innovative electricity plan to its Ohio and New York customers. Kiwi Clean + Wind REC matches 100% electricity with Green-e Energy Certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) sourced from national wind. Today, there are different ways consumers can choose to power their homes with wind energy. In deregulated energy states,…

  BlackRock Real Assets has reached an agreement with Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation for the sale of its controlling interest in Community Wind South (CWS) — a 30.75-MW community-based operating wind project in Minnesota. CWS was the first renewable energy infrastructure investment for BlackRock’s Renewable Power platform, which was launched in 2012 by funds managed…

One Energy, an industrial power company, has released a detailed analysis on the total addressable market (TAM) in the continental U.S. for onsite wind energy at commercial and industrial (C&I) facilities. The analysis shows that even with the investment tax credit (ITC) dropping to zero next year, nearly 30% of all U.S. counties have manufacturing…

Wind energy is on track to overtake hydropower in electrical generation this year in the U.S. This is good news, though it may have done so sooner if costs allowed. That’s not to say wind is cost-prohibitive. In fact, the opposite is true. Wind-generated energy has become one of the most economical sources of renewable…

The Farmers’ Legal Action Group (FLAG), a non-profit law center dedicated to providing legal services and support to family farmers and their communities, has partnered with Minnesota Farmers Union to create a new guide for wind and solar developers. The Farmers’ Guide to Solar and Wind Energy in Minnesota is a 32-page guidebook, which is intended…

“It’s all about efficiency,” says Dr. Michael Werle, Technical Advisor & Board Member of Halo Energy in an online video. He is speaking about the company’s proprietary shroud wind-turbine technology. A shrouded turbine is typically optimized for extremely low wind speeds. The shroud or ring is significant because it affects the wind flow near the…

Mpower Energy, a green energy provider in the U.S., will be bringing clean energy to the state of Illinois, by opening a new Mpower Direct office in Chicago. The city made headlines recently when they announced that they are committed to using 100% renewable energy by 2035. Mpower Energy says it is committed to helping…

Texas continues to drive innovation in the electric market, and the traditional model of large, centralized power plants serving passive consumers is steadily evolving into an expanded array of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) that enables homeowners, small business owners, and the state’s largest industrial users to manage their energy consumption in a way that makes…

In this WindTalk podcast, we’re discussing distributed wind energy with Russell Tencer, the Founder and CEO of United Wind. United Wind is currently the only company and the first ever to offer little to no money down leasing options to small wind customers in the United States. During our conversation, Russell provides insight on distributed…

Editor’s note: This blog post comes from the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Into the Wind blog. It was written by Anna Hofmann, the Government & Public Affairs Coordinator at AWEA. You can read AWEA’s other blog postings here. More than ever, companies are looking to power their businesses using wind energy. Across the world, companies more than doubled the renewable energy…

Halo Energy, LLC, a micro wind turbine manufacturer, is now in production of its innovative, high-efficiency shrouded wind turbines, with their first 10 commercial units scheduled for delivery in Q2 2019. The HALO-6.0 turbine, designed to address the energy requirements of the expanding off-grid telecom tower market worldwide, has a rated capacity of 6 kW…

Clif Bar & Company has launched the Clif Ag Fund, a new investment fund to help increase the economic resilience of organic farmers in its supply chain. The fund’s initial investment will help finance a $10 million program that could provide up to 80 organic farms with long-term energy cost savings from hosting on-farm wind…

The carbon payback times for wind turbines are much shorter than previously thought, according to international research carried out at the largest community wind farm in the UK. German student, Katharina Lutz, found the turbines at Beinn Ghrideag had a payback time of just 47 days – a drastic reduction on the previous, widely accepted,…

Innovation has been driving the small wind power market more than the wind itself. Various innovative approaches have been found to use the energy generated from renewable resources. Among different approaches, one of the approaches is by Altaeros. An airborne wind turbine has been developed by Altaeros. The BAT (Buoyant Airborne Turbine) uses an inflatable…

The MP and MSP for the Western Isles have backed a fundraising campaign to build a community-owned wind farm in North Uist, which aims to generate more than £105,000 (about $119,000) a year. UistWind, being driven by North Uist Development Company (NUDC), is in the final stages of raising the money the community needs to…

DNV GL has announced that it has partnered with Co-op Energy to provide advanced forecasting of renewable energy assets to more than 50 community energy projects across the UK. The partnership allows Co-op Energy to take advantage of DNV GL’s deep knowledge and expertise for gigawatt-scale renewable energy projects, to provide accurate forecasting services for its…