Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Heymi Bahar, the International Energy Agency’s senior analyst for renewable energy markets and policy and lead author for “Renewables 2020 Analysis and forecast to 2025.” Correction: the [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Johannes Urpelainen about how China has become the leading financer of wind, solar, and other green energy projects. They also discuss China’s Belt and Road Initiative [Read more]
This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 15, 2020. By Fred Mayes and Elesia Fasching In 2019, wind-powered generation contributed 84.4 thousand gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity in Texas, an 11 [Read more]
By Mickey Francis This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 19, 2020. In 2019, consumption of renewable energy in the United States grew for the fourth year in a row, [Read more]
By Alex May This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 16, 2020. According to 2018 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) for newly constructed utility-scale electric generators in [Read more]
The coronavirus crisis will cause global wind additions in 2020 to decline by 4.9GW compared to Wood Mackenzie’s previous projections. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and other market changes since Wood Mackenzie’s Q4 2019 update, [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Oct. 25, 2019. COPENHAGEN – Offshore wind power will expand impressively over the next two decades, boosting efforts to decarbonize energy systems and reduce air [Read more]
BHE Canada announced it will break ground on a new wind farm in southeast Alberta next year. The subsidiary company of Berkshire Hathaway Energy says its $200 million project will provide low-cost, clean energy for [Read more]
By Manussawee Sukunta This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 27, 2019. Most wind turbines in the United States were designed for medium wind environments, according to data collected in [Read more]
By Richard Bowers This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 19, 2019. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that US wind capacity additions in both 2019 and in 2020 [Read more]
By Abagail Anderson, Richard Bowers This article was published by the United States Energy Information Administration on July 31, 2019. As of the beginning of 2019, 41 states had at least one installed wind turbine. [Read more]
As capital costs for Canadian wind and solar projects fall, they become more competitive with fossil fuels in generating power, and will likely become greater sources of power generation in the years ahead. iStock/Getty Images. [Read more]
As capital costs for Canadian wind and solar projects fall, they become more competitive with fossil fuels in generating power, and will likely become greater sources of power generation in the years ahead. iStock/Getty Images. [Read more] [Read more]
Annual capacity-weighted average construction costs for solar photovoltaic systems and onshore wind turbines declined, while construction costs for natural gas generators increased slightly. SolarPowerManagement.net photo. Construction costs for solar photovoltaic (PV) projects have steadily decreased since [Read more]
Between 2010 and 2016, the capacity-weighted average cost of U.S. wind installations fell by one-third, from $2,361 per kilowatt (kW) to $1,587/kW, based on analysis in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency [Read more]
MidAmerican Energy says that once its Wind XII project is complete, the utility will generate renewable energy equal to 100 per cent of its customers’ usage. MidAmerican Energy photo. MidAmerican Energy will hit target without [Read more]
The updated US wind turbine database released by the US Department of Energy and the US Geological Survey allows the public to view data on the location and characteristics of wind turbines. VisitTehachapi.com photo. US [Read more]
GE Renewable Energy signed an agreement with the British government to test the company’s Haliade-X 12 MW turbine in Blyth, Northumberland. GE photo. GE Renewable Energy and UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult sign five-year agreement [Read more]
The Tesla/BP wind farm battery storage pilot project will be at BP’s Titan 1 wind farm in South Dakota. BP photo. Wind farm battery storage project will use 212kW/840kWhr Tesla battery BP Wind Energy and [Read more]
57 per cent of respondents felt “positive” or “very positive” about wind turbines located near their homes. Creative Commons photo by Samir Luther. Over 1.3 million US homes located near wind turbines A study led [Read more]
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