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Canada's New ecoTrust Funding To Support Renewable Energy

on 14 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Jean Charest have announced that Canada's government intends to provide Quebec with C$349.9 million as part of a [read more]

ACORE Releases Standard For Trading RECs

on 13 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington, D.C.-headquartered nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing renewable energy into the mainstream of the U.S. economy, has [read more]

EEI Unveils New Principles On Global Climate Change Policy

on 13 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), an association composed of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies, has released a set of principles to reduce the amount of greenhouse [read more]

Horizon Wind Energy Purchases Arlington Project

on 13 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Horizon Wind Energy, a Houston-based subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, has purchased a 200 MW wind project from Columbia Energy Partners (CEP), a Vancouver, Wash.-headquartered developer [read more]

Suzlon Bids For REpower Shares

on 12 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Suzlon Wind Energy, a subsidiary of Denmark-based Suzlon Energy A/S, has made an offer to purchase the shares in REpower Systems AG, a wind turbine [read more]

Idaho Power Recommends Removal Of Wind Limitations

on 12 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Idaho Power, an electricity generator and distributor, has submitted to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (IPUC) a report outlining the operational impacts associated with integrating [read more]

EFSEC Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement On Proposed Wind Farm

on 12 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC), an Olympia, Wash.-based licensing agency for nonhydro energy projects, has issued a Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) [read more]

Ohio Issues $5 Million In Grants To Encourage New Wind Projects

on 09 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, director of the Ohio Department of Development, have made $5 million in grants available for the [read more]

City Purchases Wind To Offset 20% Of Its Energy

on 09 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

The city of Evanston, Ill., has purchased 5.5 million kWh of renewable energy credits (RECs) from Baltimore-based Constellation NewEnergy, an electricity supplier and wholly owned [read more]

Researchers Test New Wind Turbine Blade Design

on 08 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Researchers at Sandia, a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratory in Bushland, Texas, and Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego are in the process [read more]

Smith Appointed Co-Chair Of The EPA And DOE's National Action Plan

on 08 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that consists of governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of [read more]

FPL Energy Ready To Build Oliver II Wind Farm

on 07 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

FPL Energy, a renewable energy project developer based in Juno Beach, Fla., has finalized plans to build a 48 MW Oliver II Wind Energy Center [read more]

Newport Harbor Corp. Converts To 100% Wind Power

on 07 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Newport Harbor Corp., a hospitality company located in Newport, R.I., has offset 100% of its electricity needs for its entire hotel, restaurant and corporate portfolio [read more]

Babcock And Brown Purchases Four Wind Power Companies

on 07 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Babcock & Brown Renewable Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock & Brown, has acquired 100% of the membership interest of four companies owned [read more]

Maplesoft, NAG Provide Tool For Designing Wind Generators

on 07 Feb 2007 by NAW Staff

Maplesoft, a Waterloo, Ontario-based provider of software tools for engineering, science and mathematical professionals, has introduced its latest model - Maple-NAG Connector. The tool is [read more]