Wind Energy Adding Water to Its Sales Pitch
U.S. wind energy industry leaders went to Texas on Wednesday to release their annual market report and highlight wind’s continuing successes and benefits there. A couple of their selling points were...
View ArticleCan Block Island Unblock US Offshore Wind Power?
It’s microscopic compared to the massive offshore wind farms that have been going up in European waters over the past decade, but Deepwater Wind’s Block Island project, 18 miles from mainland Rhode...
View ArticleInsights Conversations: International Renewable Energy Projects
The renewable energy sector, particularly wind and solar, has seen rapid expansion globally among both developed and developing countries. Skadden attorneys Paul Kraske, Jorge Kamine, Aryan Moniri and...
View ArticleEnergy Quote of the Day: Wind Power Love from Iowa’s Republican Governor
MidAmerican Energy this week has announced $1.5 billion in planned new wind power investment, including $900 million to build 552 megawatts of new capacity in Iowa. And that state’s Republican...
View ArticleWind Dixie: Ridiculously Big, Tall Turbines Could Bring Wind Energy to South
It gets more than its share of dramatic weather, but the U.S. South is generally not windy, at least not over land. As a result, wind power isn’t a thing there. East of Texas and south of parallel...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Employment on the Rise Globally, IRENA says
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has just published its 2015 Annual Review on “Renewable Energy and Jobs” and estimates that globally renewable energy jobs (excluding large hydropower)...
View ArticleNearly Half Of Western US Power Plants Vulnerable To Climate Change
The desert Southwest will be the hardest hit. The effects of climate change could hamper electric generating capacity in the Western U.S. during peak summertime energy use by about 3 percent on...
View ArticleCan We Trust Natural Gas?
Natural gas can deliver substantial carbon emissions reductions when displacing coal, and the United States has taken good advantage of it in the past several years. But the U.S. experience might be...
View ArticleEnergy Quote of the Day: On the Relative Ease of Solar, Wind Integration
There’s no question that variable resources like solar PV and wind present unique grid challenges, but with the Clean Power Plan pointing to higher penetration levels, there’s a lot of debate about how...
View ArticleEnergy Quote of the Day: On Wind, Look out Denmark, Here Comes Uruguay
We’ve heard a lot about wind power in Brazil, but there’s another South American country swooping in to take the leadership role with this renewable energy resource: Uruguay. According to Bloomberg, a...
View ArticleEnergy News Roundup: GE Announces New Subsidiary, Duke Facing Fresh Legal...
GE is creating a company to house developing energy businesses which will focus on providing products and services in energy efficiency, renewable generation and storage. [The New York Times] Duke...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Update – April 2016 #5
In 2015, energy from grid-connected, utility-scale solar plants surpassed that from wind power for the first time ever in California, according to an analysis from Vaisala.
View ArticleWind Energy Adding Water to Its Sales Pitch
U.S. wind energy industry leaders went to Texas on Wednesday to release their annual market report and highlight wind’s continuing successes and benefits there. A couple of their selling points were...
View ArticleCan Block Island Unblock US Offshore Wind Power?
It’s microscopic compared to the massive offshore wind farms that have been going up in European waters over the past decade, but Deepwater Wind’s Block Island project, 18 miles from mainland Rhode...
View ArticleWind Energy Adding Water to Its Sales Pitch
U.S. wind energy industry leaders went to Texas on Wednesday to release their annual market report and highlight wind’s continuing successes and benefits there. A couple of their selling points were...
View ArticleCan Block Island Unblock US Offshore Wind Power?
It’s microscopic compared to the massive offshore wind farms that have been going up in European waters over the past decade, but Deepwater Wind’s Block Island project, 18 miles from mainland Rhode...
View ArticleEnergy Quote of the Day: Wind Power Love from Iowa’s Republican Governor
MidAmerican Energy this week has announced $1.5 billion in planned new wind power investment, including $900 million to build 552 megawatts of new capacity in Iowa. And that state’s Republican...
View ArticleWind Dixie: Ridiculously Big, Tall Turbines Could Bring Wind Energy to South
It gets more than its share of dramatic weather, but the U.S. South is generally not windy, at least not over land. As a result, wind power isn’t a thing there. East of Texas and south of parallel...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Employment on the Rise Globally, IRENA says
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has just published its 2015 Annual Review on “Renewable Energy and Jobs” and estimates that globally renewable energy jobs (excluding large hydropower)...
View ArticleNearly Half Of Western US Power Plants Vulnerable To Climate Change
The desert Southwest will be the hardest hit. The effects of climate change could hamper electric generating capacity in the Western U.S. during peak summertime energy use by about 3 percent on...
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