Women of Wind Energy, or WoWE, was founded in 2005 to ensure that women can partake in a full and productive role in the development of wind power. In this WindTalk podcast, WoWE’s Executive Director Kristen Graf speaks to us about the importance of women in the wind industry, including some of the successes and…

On the heels of the historic Paris Climate Agreement, the nation’s largest grassroots environmental group is throwing its weight behind clean energy with its new #ReadyFor100 campaign. With 2.4 million members and supporters, the Sierra Club will harness its massive grassroots power to urge mayors in cities across the country to follow the lead of…

Envision Energy, a supplier of smart energy solutions, has announced the establishment of its Global Blade Innovation Center in Boulder, Colorado. This marks another significant investment in R&D by Envision in the United States. “Envision’s R&D centers are cultivating talent and facilitating collaboration with the best professionals in the world,” said Felix Zhang, Envision Energy’s Executive Director.…

After seven years of promoting the benefits of adding wind energy to the U.S. electricity mix, the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition announced that it will pair its advocacy work for wind with work for solar energy as well. The change is reflected in the group’s new name, the Governors’ Wind and Solar Energy Coalition (GWSC). “This…

Renewable Energy Systems (RES), a leader in the development, engineering, construction, and operation of wind and energy storage projects, announced the sale of the Bluestem Wind Project toExelon Generation, one of the nation’s leading power producers. Exelon Generation is the nation’s 12th largest wind producer with a combined 1,500 megawatts of wind generation and more…

Achieving a 36% share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030 would increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by up to 1.1 per cent, roughly USD 1.3 trillion, according to new analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency

Vestas has agreed to acquire Availon, a leading European independent service provider headquartered in Rheine, Germany. With about 400 employees and a total capacity of more than 2.6 GW under service, Availon’s core market is in Germany, with notable service activities in Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Poland, and the United States. The transaction is subject…

GE Renewable Energy has announced that it secured 1.4-GW of firm and unconditional wind turbine supply orders in the month of December. The agreements call for GE’s wind technology to supply more than 20 new wind projects across seven different countries. Approximately half of the planned 1.4 GW is scheduled to be installed outside the…

PEC Energia, one of Brazil’s foremost renewable energy developers, is nearing completion of a $435 million, 150-MW wind park in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. During the project development stages, relied on Vaisala’s Triton remote-sensing system for crucial wind measurement data. The Triton Wind Profiler is manufactured by Vaisala, a provider of environmental and industrial measurement. Triton…

If you’re proud of your organization’s hard work and dedication to the wind industry, now is the ideal time to celebrate your accomplishments. As part of the 8th Annual Wind Operations & Maintenance Conference (in Dallas, Texas on April 11, 2016), nominations are being accepted for the “2nd Wind O&M Dallas Awards. Following the success of…

Growing its operational capacity, Pattern Energy Group announced that construction has completed for the 150-MW Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge in Benton County, Indiana and the wind farm is now fully operational. The facility will sell 100% of the electricity produced to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which will supply the electricity to the electric grids…

Broadwind Energy announced $8 million in new wind-tower orders from a U.S. turbine manufacturer. The towers will be produced in Broadwind’s Manitowoc, Wisconsin facility for 2016 delivery. The company strongly credits the renewal of the Production Tax Credits (PTC) for the new contract. “The production tax credit that was passed just a few weeks ago…

Clean energy investment surged in China, Africa, the U.S., Latin America, and India in 2015, driving the world total to its highest ever figure, of $329.3bn, up 4% from 2014’s revised $315.9bn and beating the previous record, set in 2011 by 3%. These latest figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance show dollar investment globally growing…

ACCIONA Energy has started construction work on the 93-MW San Roman Wind Farm, located near the southeast coast of Texas. It is the eighth wind farm owned by the company in the U.S., bringing ACCIONA’s US wind-power capacity to 721 MW. The project was acquired by ACCIONA Energy from developer Pioneer Green Energy. Located in…

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) has reported that Canada closed 2015 seventh in the world for total installed wind energy capacity with 11,205 MW, and sixth in the world for the amount of capacity added in 2015. Over the year, Canada added 1,506 MW of new wind capacity through the commissioning of 36 projects, 23 of…

The President plans to talk about progress tonight, including in clean energy. Wind energy has led the sector with the following recent progress: Adding more capacity than any other energy source, leading the country with 47% of all new electric generating capacity in 2015 (followed by gas at 35% and solar at 14%). More than…

Renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, has released the results of its latest validation study — an evaluation of North American pre-construction wind energy yield predictions by comparison to operational production — demonstrating 99.1% accuracy for project analysis. Since 1996 Natural Power has regularly conducted finance-grade independent energy yield assessments and operational energy yield analyses. This analysis provides…

SCHURTER’s AS168X thermal magnetic, high-performance miniature circuit breaker is UL 1077 approved. The units are available in either ac or dc with the same frame size for industrial applications, including industrial converters and inverters. The family has three levels of short-circuit protection, categorized by F/DF Trip for resistive loads, G/DG Trip for slightly inductive loads…

he world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, London Array, has set a new record for the amount of clean electricity produced by an offshore project in a single calendar month.

EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) announced that the 150-MW Slate Creek Wind Project in Kansas reached commercial operation in late December. The project, located within Sumner County which is approximately 50 miles south of Wichita, commenced construction of its 75 Vestas 2-MW wind turbines in April, 2015. Great Plains Energy, parent company of Kansas City Power…