Wind energy certainly has its challenges. Developers have their eyes set on greater wind speeds and that means taller towers and longer blades, but no one wants to pay higher prices. It’s also been a year full of funding and tax credit uncertainty, at least until recently. But at an American Wind Energy Association…

  American wind power just passed the 70 gigawatt (GW) mark, meaning enough wind-turbine capacity is now installed to supply over 19 million typical American homes with low-cost electricity. The announcement comes as political leaders from around the world, including the U.S., reached a historic agreement this month to reduce carbon pollution, further increasing the…

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…

The agreement by congressional leaders last night on a multi-year extension of renewable energy tax credits would secure several years of predictable policies that encourage private investment in wind energy, industry leaders said today. “This agreement will enable wind energy to create more affordable, reliable, and clean energy for America by providing multi-year predictability as…

Vestas has received a U.S. order from project developer, EDF Renewable Energy, for the supply of turbines to a currently undisclosed wind project. The agreement is for the supply of 51 V100-2.0 MW turbines and 30 V117-3.3 MW turbines, totaling 201 MW. It includes supply and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a three-year Active…

The momentum building for the development of offshore wind power in the U.S. was on full display over the last two days during the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Hundreds of attendees, including wind energy industry leaders, government officials, investors, academics, and…

The first U.S.-Mexico cross-border wind farm was recently inaugurated in Tecate, Baja California. Constructed on approximately 5,300 hectares (13,100 acres) of leased land near the city of Tecate, the project consisted of designing, building, and operating a wind farm with 47 wind turbines, each with a nominal capacity of 3.3. MW, as well as the construction…

Atlantic Wind Transfers, the commercial wind-support services arm of Rhode Island Fast Ferry, joined local boat-builder Blount Boats and offshore wind-developer Deepwater Wind for an official Ribbon Cutting ceremony today. The companies will also tour the first offshore wind-farm crew transfer vessel in the U.S., which is currently under construction. The event at the Blount…

Energy industry leaders are meeting in Washington D.C. to discuss renewable energy as an important component of U.S. energy policy – key to addressing the issues of climate change, energy security, and economic development. The event, The Renewable Energy Transition, is co-organized by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Atlantic Council Global Energy…

Sumitomo Corporation, together with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (collectively “Sumitomo Corporation Group”), announced their investment in an innovative battery power storage system that will provide a reliable and stable supply-demand balancing service for the frequency regulation market operated by PJM, the largest regional transmission organization of wholesale electricity in the U.S. Sumitomo acquired an interest…

China continued to deploy wind power at a remarkable rate, installing an estimated 23.3 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, a 45% increase over 2013. China accounted for 45% of the 51 GW installed globally in 2014, representing $94.6 billion in revenue. This is the most wind ever installed by a single country in a single year,…

MAKE expects another strong year for North America in 2015 with more than nine gigawatts (GW) of wind power additions, buttressed by higher growth in the U.S. that offsets a slight annual decline in Canada. A late 2014 extension of the U.S. Production Tax Credits (PTC) helps to maintain momentum in the U.S. market through…

DONG Energy has agreed to take over RES Americas Developments Inc.’s (RES) more than 1000-MW newly assigned development project rights off the coast of Massachusetts. At the offshore wind auction held by BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) on January 29, 2015, RES secured the rights to develop one of the two leases that were…

After four years of building 750-kW wind turbines for the community wind market sector, Aeronautica Windpower is reaching for higher air. Aeronautica, which bills itself as the nation’s only US owned and operated mid-scale turbine manufacturer, announced that has signed a sales and licensing agreement with W2E of Germany to build that company’s 2-MW turbine…

Enel Green Power (EGP), through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGP-NA), has started construction on a new wind farm in Oklahoma, USA. The Little Elk wind project, located in Kiowa and Washita Counties, Oklahoma, adjacent to EGP-NA’s existing 150-megawatt (MW) Rocky Ridge wind farm, will have a total installed capacity of 74…

Small wind turbines are playing an increasing role in many countries, in particular in Asia and in North America. So far, European small wind markets, aside from the UK, have not been major drivers of this success story, neither technically nor economically. This might well change in the foreseeable future. In the past weeks, two…

The Government of the United States, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), is developing a compact with the Government of Benin (GOB) to develop clean energy for the West African country’s electrical power sector. According to the MCC, only one-third of Benin’s population of 10 million has access to electrical power, with extraordinary geographical disparities.…