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WestLB Closes Senior Secured Credit Facilities For Wind Farm
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WestLB's Global Energy Group has closed $317 million of senior secured credit facilities for the construction of Renewable Energy System's 165.6 MW Hackberry wind farm in Shackelford, Texas. The long-term tranche was priced at 65 basis points inside of the latest comparable project finance bond. The tenor of [read more]
MMS Publishes Cape Wind Energy Project DEIS
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The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has filed the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Cape Wind Energy Project with the Environmental Protection Agency. The MMS will begin accepting comments on the DEIS on Jan. 18, when a notice of availability for the DEIS [read more]
Report: Wind-Powered Generation Doubles In Ontario
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Wind-powered generation in Ontario more than doubled in 2007, according to statistics released by Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). In 2007, the output from the more than 400 MW of installed wind generation in Ontario totaled 1.04 terrawatt hours (TWh) compared to 0.44 TWh in 2006. [read more]
Velocity Venture Capital Closes $15 Million Second Fund
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Velocity Venture Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in technology companies in the Sacramento, Calif., area, has closed its second fund, with $15 million raised, and is preparing for its third fund with a target fund size of $60 million. The Velocity fund management team plans to complete its [read more]
Judge Reverses Verdict In Wind Farm Dispute
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Judge Bruce E. Priddy, from the 116th Civil District Court, has reversed an earlier jury verdict and ruled that Dallas-based TXU Corp. is not entitled to any damages in a contract dispute with wind farm operator FPL Energy, according to Lynn Tillotson & Pinker, a Dallas-based law firm that represented [read more]
Shear Wind Announces Board Chairman
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Mike Magnus, president and CEO of Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Shear Wind Inc., and the members of the Shear Wind board of directors have named David McDaniel Mann chairman. Mann is an attorney at Cox & Palmer, which he joined in January 2005. Mann was appointed to the Queen's Counsel in [read more]
Knight And Carver Secures Investment From Global Environmental Fund
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California-based Knight & Carver Wind Group Inc. has secured a $12 million investment from Global Environment Fund, an environmental private equity investment firm. According to Knight & Carver President and CEO Sampson A. Brown, the company will use the capital to assure its leadership position in wind turbine blade inspection, [read more]
FERC Approves Incentive Rates For Renewable Energy Projects
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted Xcel Energy Services Inc.'s request for incentive transmission rates as part of its plan for six transmission upgrades to meet state renewable energy generation standards and serve increased power demand in the Upper Midwest. Xcel, on behalf of Northern States Power Co. [read more]
BC Transmission Files Capital Plan
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BC Transmission Corp. (BCTC) has filed its 10-year capital plan with the BC Utilities Commission, outlining $5.1 billion in expenditures designed to meet the increased clean electricity demands of British Columbia's growing economy. The new capital plan outlines measures BCTC will take to support key objectives of "The BC Energy [read more]
Environmental Groups Plan To File Suit Against DOE
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Eleven regional and national environmental organizations have announced plans to file suit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) over its final designation of the Mid-Atlantic National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (Mid-Atlantic NIETC). Led by the National Wildlife Federation and the Piedmont Environmental Council, the groups are challenging the designation [read more]
Turn Energy Maintenance Hires Lasslett
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Turn Energy Maintenance LLC has hired Larry Lasslett as its field contract services manager. He has many years of experience in both manufacturing and field operations and management services, dating back to 1989, when he began his career with Enron. Lasslett will be responsible for managing, training and leading groups [read more]
National Wind Assessments Expands
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National Wind Assessments, a wind resource assessment and met tower installation and monitoring firm, has announced the addition of four employees and the opening of a new office at the Corporate Center in downtown Grand Forks, N.D. The added staff and new office location will help the company meet its [read more]
PECO RFP
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Utility company PECO is inviting alternative energy producers to submit bids to sell alternative energy credits to help the company fulfill renewable energy requirements set by Pennsylvania's recent Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS) legislation. The AEPS legislation requires that by 2011, 3.5% of the energy consumed by PECO customers be [read more]
Federal Funds Awarded For College Wind Turbine
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A $1 million federal appropriation has been awarded to Cloud County Community College (CCCC) to support construction of a wind turbine near the college's Concordia, Kan., campus. The appropriation was included in the federal Energy and Water Development and the Commerce, Justice and Science bills, according to Sen. Sam Brownback, [read more]
MTC Grant Will Fund SED Wind Project
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The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) has awarded grant-funding to all four of the projects that Sustainable Energy Developments (SED) submitted. SED will start design and construction on three new sites and conduct a feasibility study at one new site. SED's intention is to install 10 large-scale wind turbines by the [read more]
Cartier Wind Energy Completes Wind Farm
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Cartier Wind Energy has commissioned its 100.5 MW Anse-a-Valleau wind farm on Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, the second of six wind farms that Hydro-Quebec has contracted it to build and operate. Construction of the $164 million project began in October 2006 and was complete on time and on budget. [read more]
Cost For Tri-State's Green Power Program Reduced
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The Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has announced that the cost associated with its 10-year-old voluntary green power program has been reduced. Tri-State's board authorized a change in the voluntary program pricing, reducing the premium charged for 100 kWh blocks from $1.25 to match current market conditions. Currently, 32 of [read more]
Midwest ISO Selects OSIsoft PI System For Monitoring
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The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (Midwest ISO) has implemented OSIsoft's PI System for monitoring and managing the Midwest energy market. The PI System enterprise data historian provides the Midwest ISO with real-time data management to enhance grid reliability and scalability, while minimizing risk, according to OSIsoft. [read more]
Enel Announces Completion Of Texas Wind Farm
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Enel SpA, through its subsidiary Enel North America Inc., has completed a wind farm in Texas with what the company says are the tallest utility-scale wind turbines in the U.S. The Snyder Wind project in Scurry County, Texas, between Abilene and Lubbock, comprises 21 Vestas V90 3 MW wind turbines [read more]
APPA Studies RTO Membership
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A recent study conducted by the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center finds that "there is no evidence that membership in an RTO (Regional Transmission Organization) promoted the development of renewables." The study goes on to say that when the variable of RTO participation was isolated from other factors (such [read more]
City Of Riverside Adopts Green Action Plan
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The city of Riverside, Calif., has adopted the Clean and Green Sustainable Riverside Action Plan, a result of meetings by the city's Clean and Green Task Force, established by Riverside Mayor Ronald Loveridge in 2005. The group, made up of city staff and citizens, promotes sustainability and use of city [read more]

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