Financing has closed on Apex Clean Energy‘s 224-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project following a tax equity commitment from Bank of America. Great Pathfinder Wind, located in Boone and Hamilton Counties, Iowa, is currently under construction and is expected to begin operations in Q4 2022. Apex is providing construction management services for the project and IEA…
IEA subsidiary selected as EPC on 110-MW Michigan wind project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and civil expertise, has been awarded a $49 million contract for the Deerfield II Wind Farm in Michigan. The award is for the construction of the approximately 110-MW utility-scale wind farm in Huron County, Michigan. Algonquin Power & Utilities, a North American renewable…
IEA to construct 200-MW Plymouth Wind Energy Center in Iowa
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives has been awarded the contract for construction of the Plymouth Wind Energy Center, valued at approximately $50 million. Invenergy, a global developer, owner, and operator of sustainable energy solutions, awarded this project to IEA Constructors, a subsidiary of IEA that manages utility-scale renewable energy and heavy civil infrastructure projects. The Plymouth…
IEA handling construction on 190-MW Kansas wind farm project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded the Jayhawk Wind Farm contract for the construction of a 190-MW utility-scale wind farm in Bourbon and Crawford counties in Kansas. Apex Clean Energy, which develops, constructs and operates utility-scale wind and solar power facilities across North…
IEA awarded construction contract for 118-MW Illinois wind farm
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and specialty civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract for the Shady Oaks II Wind Farm in Illinois. Algonquin Power & Utilities, a growing renewable energy and regulated utility company, awarded the project to White Construction, a subsidiary of IEA that…
IEA contracted for construction of 300-MW Illinois wind project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract valued at approximately $100 million. Apex Clean Energy, who develops, constructs, and operates utility-scale wind and solar power facilities across North America, awarded the Lincoln Land project to White Construction, a subsidiary of…
IEA awarded construction contract for 185-MW Illinois wind project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract for the 185-MW Glacier Sands wind farm in Mason County, Illinois. Cordelio Power, a North American-based renewable power producer, awarded the project to White Construction, a subsidiary of IEA that constructs utility-scale renewable…
IEA subsidiary begins construction on 302-MW Indiana wind project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and specialty civil expertise, has been awarded an EPC wind contract for the construction of a 302-MW wind farm in Northern Indiana. The contract was awarded to IEA subsidiary company White Construction, a utility-scale energy and heavy civil infrastructure contractor. Construction began on…
IEA awards construction contract on 150-MW Iowa wind project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA) has finalized a $65 million wind construction award for a 150-MW wind farm in Iowa. The Northern Iowa wind farm, upon its anticipated completion in November 2020, will produce roughly 600,000 MWh of electricity each year, or enough energy to power roughly 70,000 homes. White Construction will handle all of…
IEA awards subsidiary with construction of 250-MW Illinois wind farm
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, announced a wind energy project award in Illinois. White Construction, a division of IEA that performs the construction of heavy civil infrastructure projects, secured the project contract. The award is for the construction of the Blooming Grove Wind Energy…
IEA awarded $50 million for 148-MW Oklahoma wind project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, received an approximately $50 million wind energy project award in Oklahoma. The award is for the construction of the Boiling Springs Wind Farm in Woodward County in northwest Oklahoma. The 148 MW of power generated by the project’s planned…
IEA to build 300-MW Kansas wind farm
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company, announced a new wind energy project. The deal is for construction of the Neosho Ridge Wind project in Neosho County, Kansas — an approximate 300-MW project that is expected to provide enough energy to power up to 100,000 homes. The wind farm will use 139 Vestas…
IEA awarded two new Texas wind-power contracts
Construction company, Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), announced two new wind energy project awards valued at about $150 million. EDF Renewables North America is the lead developer on both projects, which include: 1. Las Majadas Wind Farm in Willacy County in, southern Texas. This will be an approximate 272-MW project that is expected to provide…
IEA report finds that charging infrastructure, more battery improvements, and supply of core materials critical to sustaining growth
The number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017, a 54% increase compared with 2016, according to the latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s Global Electric Vehicles Outlook. China remained by far the largest electric car market in the world, accounting for half sold last year. Nearly…
Renewables were fastest growing energy source in 2017, finds IEA
Global energy demand rose by 2.1% in 2017, more than twice the previous year’s rate, boosted by strong global economic growth, with oil, gas and coal meeting most of the increase in demand for energy, and renewables seeing impressive gains. Overall, renewables had the highest growth rate of any fuel last year. These findings are…
EIA releases December’s U.S. short-term energy forecast
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (IEA) has released its short-term energy outlook (STEO) for December, and into early 2018. It expects natural gas and coal shares of utility-scale electricity generation to remain relatively unchanged through 2018. Both natural gas and coal are forecast to hover near 32% and 31%, respectively, in 2018. The IEA anticipates…
Wind turbines provide 8% of U.S. generating capacity — more than any other renewable source
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series of ‘Today in Energy’ articles, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (IEA). The series examines the fleet of utility-scale power plants in the United States, and this one discusses the growth of wind energy. Previous articles have examined hydroelectric, natural gas, and nuclear generators. Wind generators…
IEEFA Update: IEA, still behind the curve, nonetheless indicates rising stranded-asset risk in fossil-fuel holdings
A history of IEA underestimation of technology change has been partially remedied in this new report, but the agency’s solar and wind forecasts can at best be described still as very conservative.
Renewable Incentives from around the world, 5th edition
The International Energy Agency (IEA), for example, sees renewable energy contributing 32% of the effort towards the 2° scenario between 2016 and 2050.
U.S. electricity from renewables to grow 1.8% in 2015
The total amount of electricity generated by renewable energy sources in the United States will grow 1.8% this year, estimates the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in a Short-Term Energy Outlook released this summer. According to EIA projections, non-hydropower renewable power generation will increase by 5.5% in 2015, while hydropower will decrease 2% in that…