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Wind Turbines Affect Behavior of Desert Tortoise Predators
How a wind energy facility is designed can influence the behavior of animal predators and their prey, according to a recent study published in The Journal of Wildlife Management by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Scientists placed motion-activated cameras facing the entrances of 46 active desert tortoise burrows in a wind energy facility near ...
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Study finds no widespread impact of wind power projects on surrounding residential property values in the US
Over 30,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity are installed across the United States and an increasing number of communities are considering new wind power facilities. Given these developments, there is an urgent need to empirically investigate typical community concerns about wind energy and thereby provide stakeholders involved in the wind project siting process a common base of knowledge. A ...
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Puget Sound Energy names Burns & McDonnell design engineer for large wind energy project
Puget Sound Energy has hired Burns & McDonnell to provide project development, engineering design, and construction management services for a large new wind energy project to be located along the Lower Snake River in Southeast Washington State. The full buildout of the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project could be 1,432 megawatts (MW), making it one of the largest wind energy resource areas ...
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Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy Complete Largest Wind Project in North America
Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy this week announced commercial operations for the 998-megawatt Traverse Wind Energy Center, the largest wind farm constructed in a single phase in North America. Located in north central Oklahoma, Traverse joins the operational 199-megawatt Sundance Wind Energy Center and the 287-megawatt Maverick Wind Energy Center, as the last of three projects developed by ...
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Wind firm sues to block release of bird-death data
A company that operates at least 13 wind-energy facilities across three states is suing in federal court to block the U.S. government from releasing information to The Associated Press about how many birds are found dead at its facilities. Pacificorp of Portland, Oregon, is seeking an injunction in U.S. District Court in Utah to prevent the Interior Department from releasing information it ...
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Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first
A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities. Until the settlement announced Friday with Duke Energy Corp. and its renewable energy arm, not a single wind energy company had been prosecuted for a death of ...
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Kimberly-Clark reaffirms sustainability commitment with renewable energy certificates from constellation energy
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (www.kimberly-clark.com) (NYSE: KMB) announced today that it will purchase from Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com) (NYSE: CEG) Green-e® Energy Certified power sourced from wind energy facilities in Texas. The purchase will match 100 percent of the electricity use at the company's worldwide headquarters located in Dallas from July 2011 through June 2014. ...
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BP to Build Five U.S. Wind Farms This Year
HOUSTON, Texas (ENS) - BP Alternative Energy North America Inc. today announced that it expects to begin construction on five wind power generation projects in the United States in 2007. Located in four states - California, Colorado, North Dakota and Texas - the projects are expected to deliver a combined generation capacity of some 550 megawatts, MW. When complete, the projects will exceed the ...
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NREL, Clemson University Collaborate on Wind Energy Testing Facilities
Two of our nation's most advanced wind energy research and test facilities have joined forces to help the wind energy industry improve the performance of wind turbine drivetrains and better understand how the turbines can integrate more effectively with the electrical grid. Through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy ...
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PacifiCorp Energy pleads guilty in bird deaths
Wind farm operator PacifiCorp Energy will pay $2.5 million in fines after pleading guilty Friday to charges related to the deaths of protected birds in Wyoming. The subsidiary of Portland, Oregon-based PacifiCorp pleaded guilty in federal court in Wyoming to two counts of violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act under a plea deal with prosecutors. The U.S. Justice Department said the ...
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Constellation to Supply Renewable Energy Certificates to Rhode Island Manufacturers Association Event
Constellation today announced that it will donate renewable energy certificates (RECs) to match 100 percent of the estimated electricity consumption at the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association’s annual fundraising gala. On Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, the Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel ‘goes green’ for this year’s fundraiser, The Renaissance Movement for Rhode Island ...
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Constellation Energy to Supply Renewable Energy Certificates for U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in Baltimore
Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today announced that it will donate renewable energy certificates (RECs) to match 100 percent of the estimated energy use associated with the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 79th Annual Meeting in Baltimore June 17-20. The Green-e® Energy certified RECs will come from wind energy facilities in the United States. “At a time when ...
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Western Wind Takes Delivery of US $12 Million of Solar Panels and Secures US Cash Grant
Western Wind Energy Corp. -- (Toronto Venture Exchange -- "WND") (OTCQX -- "WNDEF"), is pleased to announce that it has signed a Module Supply Agreement ("MSA") with a leading international, multi-billion dollar photo voltaic panel manufacturer for 42 MW DC (30 MW AC) for its Yabucoa Project located in Puerto Rico. The panels have been delivered and Western Wind Energy has taken ownership ...
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Puget Sound Energy to Nearly Double Its Clean Eenergy Portfolio by 2025
Through its early and aggressive acquisition of clean energy resources, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) will deliver more clean energy than originally forecasted in its Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP), a course of action for clean electricity programs and investments to align with policies established by Washington's Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA).PSE filed its CEIP update to provide a ...
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Second Major Offshore Wind Project Breaks Ground in U.S.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in East Hampton, New York, on Feb 11 to commemorate the groundbreaking of the South Fork wind energy project, the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project approved for federal waters in the United States. The South Fork project will be located offshore Rhode Island and New York and have a capacity of 130 megawatts of wind energy -- ...
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Wind power projects add to ADB effort to help India develop cleaner power sources
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and India’s private sector are developing two wind power projects to further build the South Asian nation’s access to cleaner energy sources. ADB is extending a rupee-denominated loan of $113 million equivalent to a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of CLP Holdings of Hong Kong to fund development of two wind energy facilities in the Indian states of Gujarat and ...
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ACCIONA Energy Introduces U.S. and Canada Avian and Bat Protection Plan
ACCIONA Energy announced today the formalization of its U.S. and Canada Avian and Bat Protection Plan. The company's internal plan sets guidelines that evaluate and address the impact that wind farm development has on wildlife and aims to help conserve the 1007 species of migratory birds currently protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The plan, two years in the making, outlines ...
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Proven in Europe and Asia, GE Energy’s 2.5-MW wind turbine to be launched in North America next year
Following its successful debut in Europe and Asia, GE Energy has announced that its 2.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine is coming to America. The 2.5xl, which is the latest evolution of the company’s wind turbine technology, will be launched in North America in 2010. More than 100 of the 2.5-MW machines already have been installed in seven countries and have compiled more than one million operating ...
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Nation`s First Off-Shore Wind Farm Wins Court Battle
BOSTON, Massachusetts (ENS) - A Massachusetts court today ruled in favor of the nation's first off-shore wind farm planned for Nantucket Sound. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling that affirmed the May 2005 decision of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board approving the construction and operation of undersea transmission lines to serve the Cape Wind Project. ...
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PGE Seeks Approval for New Renewable Power Program
Portland General Electric filed an application recently (4/13) with the Oregon Public Utility Commission seeking approval for a new program to help accelerate Oregon's transition to a clean energy future and achieve state and local goals for climate change and renewable energy. The program has the endorsement of six mayors who represent the largest cities in PGE's service area.If approved, the ...
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