Biden’s Climate Plan Is Designed To Appeal To Independents Who Don’t Think Climate Change Is Serious

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:15:10 +0000

Biden’s climate plan is good on transportation and foreign policy, land use is adequate, but won’t get out the Democratic base or draw many Independents. It’s a plan to not lose votes, not a plan to get votes, and it’s not a sufficient plan for climate action

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Facebook Signs 200 Megawatt Wind Power Purchase Agreement In Texas

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:05:09 +0000

American online social media giant Facebook has signed a Power Purchase Agreement with Apex Clean Energy for 200 megawatts (MW) of the 525 MW Aviator Wind project set to be built in Coke County, Texas. 

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Scottish Developers Announce Subsidy-Free Onshore Wind Farm

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:55:49 +0000

Independent Scottish developer Muirhall Energy announced Monday that construction has begun at the Crossdykes Wind Farm, an important step in the company’s effort to deliver Scotland’s first subsidy-free onshore wind project

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Way To Dump All The Good News About Wind Power On A Friday Afternoon, DOE

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:55:01 +0000

Three new reports from the Department of Energy chart the rise of wind power in the USA, undercutting the Commander-in-Chief’s promises to coal miners

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Global Corporations Spur US Wind & Solar Growth

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:55:07 +0000

The world’s largest corporations signed contracts for more than 6 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity in the United States last year, the beginning of what Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables is calling a “corporate renewables procurement boom” which is spurring renewable energy development across the country

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India’s 1.8 Gigawatt Wind Energy Tender Undersubscribed By 1.2 Gigawatts

Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:00:37 +0000

The trend of poor response from project developers to India’s wind and solar power projects continued as bids came in for the eighth national-level wind energy tender organized by the Solar Energy Corporation of India

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Siemens Gamesa Wins 453 Megawatt Order In India

Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:45:54 +0000

Siemens Gamesa continues to win fresh orders under the auction regime of the Indian wind energy sector. The latest order is among the company’s largest to-date after the introduction of competitive wind energy auctions in India

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UK Economy-Wide Coalition Urges Government To Support Onshore Wind

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:45:28 +0000

An economy-wide coalition of UK companies and organisations has called on the country’s new Energy Minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, to support the development of new onshore wind farms in an effort to extricate the technology from its current persona non grata status so as to further boost the country’s efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. 

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