Invenergy, North America’s largest independent, privately-held renewable energy company, and NarrativeWave, an Irvine-based Internet of Things software company, announced a three-year agreement to boost wind farm performance. Invenergy will use NarrativeWave’s software to optimize its fleet of wind turbines and other renewable energy assets. The announcement follows a successful 60-day pilot, where Invenergy proved out…
Invenergy completes financing for Michigan wind farm
Invenergy, North America’s largest privately held renewable energy company, announced the successful refinancing of the 110.4-MW Gratiot County Wind Project located near Breckenridge, Michigan. Invenergy owns the majority interest and is the managing member of Gratiot County Wind. The facility is operated and maintained by Invenergy Services LLC. Natixis, Norddeutsche Landesbank, Zions Bancorporation, and Siemens…
Invenergy reaches financial close for Upstream Wind Energy Center
Invenergy, a privately-held North American renewable energy company, announced that it has completed construction financing for its 202.5-MW Upstream Wind Energy Center in Antelope County, Nebraska. “We are pleased to have reached financial close for our Upstream Wind project and are eager to deploy another Renewable Energy Facility in the State of Nebraska,” said Meghan Schultz, Senior…
100 more wind turbines headed for Northern Illinois
Invenergy plans to construct about 100 turbines for a 250 MW rating, and related infrastructure across more than 100 parcels in Chenoa, Gridley, Lawndale, Lexington and Money Creek townships in Illinois, according to county records.
Invenergy Announces America’s Largest Wind Farm With GE Renewable Energy
Invenergy, North America’s largest independent, privately held renewable energy company, along with GE Renewable Energy, announced a 2,000-MW wind farm that will be the largest in the U.S. and second-largest in the world, once operational. The Wind Catcher facility is currently under construction in the Oklahoma panhandle and will generate wind electricity from 800 state-of-the-art…
Appalachian Power files to acquire Hardin & Beech Ridge II wind facilities
Appalachian Power is making concurrent filings with the Virginia State Corporation Commission and the Public Service Commission of West Virginia requesting regulatory approvals to acquire the Hardin and Beech Ridge II wind facilities. The 175-MW Hardin Wind Facility will be located in Hardin County, Ohio, and the 50-MW Beech Ridge II Wind Facility will be in…
GE’s turbines begin operation at Roncevaux Wind Farm in Quebec
Roncevaux Wind Power partners held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week to celebrate the commencement of commercial operations at its Roncevaux Wind Farm in Québec. The facility is located in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region in the MRC d’Avignon, approximately 500 km north-east of Québec City. The 74.8-MW project features 34 General Electric GE 2.2-107 wind turbines and represents a…
Invenergy signs PPA for more Texas wind power
Invenergy LLC has executed a power purchase agreement (PPA) that will provide Texas with more renewable wind energy. This agreement is the first power agreement adopted as part of the Renewable Denton Plan, which is designed to increase the amount of electricity generated in the city of Denton from renewables from 40 to 70% by 2019. Approved by Denton’s City…
Roncevaux Wind Farm in Québec begins commercial operation
Invenergy Wind LLC has announced the completion of construction and the official start of commercial operation of its Roncevaux wind farm in Québec. The 74.8 MW project features 34 GE 2.2-107 wind turbines. It is located in the Ruisseau-Ferguson unorganized territory in the MRC d’Avignon, Québec, Canada, about 500 km east of Québec City. Energy output from the Roncevaux wind project will…
Invenergy completes project financing for Wake Wind Energy Center
The Invenergy facility will consist of 150 GE 1.7 MW wind turbines. Commercial operation is expected to commence in the third quarter of this year.
Invenergy signs wind-power agreement with 3M
Invenergy has signed a power-purchase agreement (PPA) with 3M to provide the science and technology company with 120 MW of wind energy to help support its North American operations. “3M is a global company with a commitment to sustainability and we’re very proud to help them strengthen that commitment with this agreement,” said Invenergy’s VP of Sales and…
“The Wind and Hydro Response” proposed for clean New England energy
Three organizations have filed a proposal to diversify New England’s energy supply by adding clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The proposal, dubbed “The Wind and Hydro Response,” is designed to fit the request by Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts for more renewables to help fuel the region’s future growth. Invenergy, one of the…
Invenergy to provide wind power to Google
Invenergy announced that it has signed a 225-MW wind-power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google to provide the tech giant with renewable energy to help support its data center operations. Google first announced this deal in December during the COP21 conference in Paris. Invenergy is one of six renewable energy companies Google partnered with for a…
Invenergy begins operation at Prairie Breeze II Wind Energy Center
Invenergy Wind announced the completion of construction and the start of commercial operation of its Prairie Breeze II Wind Energy Center in Antelope and Boone Counties, Nebraska. The facility officially began operating in mid-December, 2015. Prairie Breeze II is located near the town of Elgin, approximately 100 miles northwest of the city of Lincoln. The…
Invenergy sells 832 MW of wind energy to TerraForm Power
Invenergy Wind LLC, the largest privately-held independent wind-power generation company in the United States, has sold 832 MW (net) of wind energy plants to clean energy owner and operator, TerraForm Power. The announcement represents the closing of a purchase and sale agreement originally executed on June 30, 2015. A final closing for an additional 98 MW…
TerraForm Power and SunEdison acquire 930-MW contracted wind portfolio from Invenergy
TerraForm Power, an owner and operator of clean energy power plants, and SunEdison, currently the world’s largest renewable energy development company, recently announced that TerraForm Power has signed a definitive agreement to acquire net ownership of 930 megawatts (MW) of wind power plants from Invenergy Wind LLC, the largest independent wind owner in the United…
Invenergy celebrates clean energy success of Wheatland County’s Judith Gap Wind Farm
In the ten years since its Renewable Portfolio Standard (“RPS”) was signed into law, Montana has become a clean energy success story. As wind projects such as Invenergy‘s Judith Gap Wind Farm in Wheatland County generate low-cost, homegrown renewable power, they’re also producing significant local tax revenue and spurring job creation in the state. One of the nation’s…
Invenergy exec discusses why you should attend AWEA’s Wind Energy Finance & Investment Seminar
The AWEA Wind Energy Finance & Investment Seminar is right around the corner and Jim Murphy of Invenergy LLC is the program chair. The seminar, held next week in New York, will focus on banking and financial issues as they pertain to investing in wind-energy projects. In this podcast, Jim will discuss a few seminar…
Misguided legislation sends jobs to Canada
By Jeff Anthony, Business Director, AWEA, Milwaukee, Wisc The Wisconsin Assembly recently passed a bill that would enable hydroelectric power from Manitoba, Canada to be shipped to Wisconsin to meet the state’s 2006 law requiring 10% of the state’s electricity to come from renewable energy sources by 2015. If enacted into law, the Manitoba Hydro…
How to monitor 975 turbines at 14 wind plants
Invenergy owns and operates just such a fleet in the U.S., along with other clean energy generation facilities in North America and Europe. To help maintenance personnel track multiple sensor signals at each site, the firm selected SmartSignal Corp. (smartsignal.com) to install SmartSignal EPI*Center Predictive Diagnostic software, which will be “watching” all 975 GE 1.5…