Portland General Electric Company‘s Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility started commercial power generation in Eastern Oregon. Wheatridge is a joint wind project of PGE and a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources. This new facility marks a milestone in Oregon’s acceleration to a clean energy future and contributes to achieving PGE’s recently established company-wide goal of net-zero…
PGE and NextEra to build Oregon wind, solar & storage project
Portland General Electric Company (PGE) and NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, announced plans to construct a new energy facility in Eastern Oregon combining 300 MW of wind with 50 MW of solar generation and 30 MW of battery storage. The new project, called the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility, will be the first of this…
NextEra breaks ground on 160-MW Nebraska Wind Farm
State and local leaders and landowners joined executives from NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc., and Omaha Power Public District (OPPD) to break ground on Nebraska’s newest renewable energy project – the Sholes Wind Energy Center. The project will create hundreds of construction jobs as well as millions of dollars in economic benefits for…
Great River Energy & NextEra Energy Resources Partner to add 300 MW of wind energy
Great River Energy currently purchases 51 MW of clean power from NextEra Energy Resources’ Ashtabula II Wind Energy Center.
North Dakota College installs new wind tech training tower
North Dakota’s Bismarck State College (BSC) announced successful installation of a new tower to provide training and education to students and wind industry partners. The “Nacelle Tower” is located on the west lawn of the National Energy Center of Excellence on the BSC campus. The top of the Nacelle Tower is 32 feet high, and the interior…
All I want is for wind critics to be honest. That’s asking a lot
Why is it so easy for some to be dishonest? Wind industry opponents seem to take great effort to avoid fair and honest remarks with most every pronouncement they make. Of course, if they were honest, their arguments would disappear. A recent example of their struggle comes from the American Energy Alliance (AEA) in a…