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RICHMOND, Va., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- One offshore substation platform with two 230,000-volt power lines is appropriate to transmit to shore every 500-700 megawatts of wind-generated electricity constructed off the coast of Virginia, a study done at Dominion Virginia Power's request recommends. The report, completed by ABB Power Systems Consulting, evaluated the offshore transmission options to support future projects and built its recommendations on the company's first...
West Texas Wind Farm is in the Heart of New Multi-Billion Dollar Transmission Expansion Lubbock, Texas (PRWEB) March 05, 2012 Tri Global Energy, LLC announced today that it had entered into a Joint Development with Floyd County Wind Farm, LLC and Westerly Wind, LLC and closed on the initial funding to form South Plains Wind Energy, LLC. The newly formed South Plains Wind Energy, LLC will receive initial development funding from Westerly Wind, LLC to accelerate the development of a wind...
LUBBOCK, Texas, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tri Global Energy, LLC announced today that it had entered into a Joint Development with Floyd County Wind Farm, LLC and Westerly Wind, LLC and closed on the initial funding to form South Plains Wind Energy, LLC. The newly formed South Plains Wind Energy, LLC will receive initial development funding from Westerly Wind, LLC to accelerate the development of a wind farm project located in Floyd County, Texas. The wind farm project is a...
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Energy has received another large onshore wind order in the U.S. Following successful completion of its 593.4-megawatt wind projects in Iowa in 2011, MidAmerican Energy Company, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is again partnering with Siemens on its 407.1-megawatt wind project expansion in 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO ) In November 2011 at the conclusion of a competitive tender process,...
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas) is pleased to announce the completion of Crossroads Wind Farm. Located in Dewey County, Oklahoma, the 227.5 megawatt (MW) project consists of 95 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines and three Siemens 3.0 MW direct-drive turbines, the first of their kind in the United States. Substantial completion was reached at the end of 2011. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120221/DA56488LOGO)...
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Energy, along with state and local public officials, and a host of community leaders, celebrated the official grand opening of the new 64,000-square-foot wind service distribution center in Woodward, Oklahoma, today. The establishment of this new facility underscores Siemens' commitment to providing increased efficiency to its wind power customers throughout the region. With its geographic location in the heart of the wind belt, the...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EverPower Wind Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Terra Firma, a leading private equity firm, and OwnEnergy, the leader in Community Wind, announced today that they have closed a transaction where EverPower will acquire and construct Patton Wind Farm, LLC. This is a project that OwnEnergy has been developing from inception with its local landowner partner. The project will be 30 MW and will be fully operational by the end of 2012. An...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that its Southern Cross transmission project has obtained two key regulatory orders from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Pattern is developing the Southern Cross project to add a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission tie of up to 3,000 MW between ERCOT in Texas and the transmission grid deep in the southeastern United States by 2016. "We have reached a...
WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. (OTC: MMMW) reports a net loss of $64,345 or less than one cent per share in the second quarter ending October 31, 2011. In the same three month period last year, Mass Megawatts reported a net loss of one cent per share or $124,102. Earlier this week, Mass Megawatts started the production of its wind power units in a manufacturing facility located on Highway 8 in Morrison, Colorado. The new facility is...
As the percentage of wind energy contributing to the power grid continues to increase, the variable nature of wind can make it difficult to keep the generation and the load balanced. But recent work by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in conjunction with AWS Truepower, may help this balance through a project that alerts control room operators of wind conditions and energy forecasts so they can make well-informed scheduling decisions. This is especially important during extreme...
