The MidAmerican Energy Company recently announced plans to build a new wind farm in Iowa’s Poweshiek County, becoming the third site overall selected to participate in the company’s Wind XI project.
According to MidAmerican, the Poweshiek County wind farm will share an operations and mainten... Read More »
Urban Grid Holdings announced on Monday the completion of two solar installations in Allegany County, Maryland, with a total capacity of 2.14 megawatts (MW).
The two solar arrays consist of 6,688 solar panels and are projected to produce 2,736,000 kilowatt hours of electricity in their first yea... Read More »
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories recently used classical control theory, robotics, and aerospace engineering design principles to double the amount of energy a wave energy converter can absorb from ocean waves.
Through the Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office, the ... Read More »
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) recently held a policy session to evaluate the potential impacts of increased integration of renewable energy resources at the regional transmission level.
The session, titled Illinois’ Power Meter: Renewable Energy and Illinois Transmission System, was t... Read More »
According to new projections from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), solar photovoltaic installers and wind turbine service technicians will be the fastest growing occupations in the United States from 2016 to 2026.
BLS projected that solar installer jobs will inc... Read More »
Wind projects under construction and in advanced development at the end of the third quarter of 2017 has reached a total of 29,634 megawatts (MW), the highest level since the statistic was first measured at the beginning of 2016, according to a newly-released market report from the American Wind Ene... Read More »
Approximately 1,000 business leaders, academics, environmental specialists, and government officials from around the world participated in the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Offshore WINDPOWER Conference in New York this week, AWEA said in a news release.
“You can feel the urgency to ... Read More »
Innovative Solar Systems, LLC (ISS), a U.S.-based utility-scale solar farm developer, recently announced that it is offering for sale 16 solar farm projects with a total of 580 megawatts of grid generation.
The portfolio includes projects eight states: Montana, Colorado, Utah, Alabama, North Car... Read More »
The Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) presented to Rocky Mountain Power on Monday at the Renewable Energy Markets 2017 conference in New York City the Green Power Leadership Award for its Subscriber Solar program.
The Green Power Leadership Award recognizes organizations for their role in prom... Read More »
Florida Power & Light (FPL) recently announced that it has added more than 1.25 million solar panels of 2.5 million solar panels pledged to eight Florida solar power plants this year.
Current plans call for the rest to be finished by early 2018, which will themselves be part of a larger scale ven... Read More »