Author: Anela Dokso

EDF Renewables North America’s 150 megawatt (MW) Merricourt Wind Project has achieved commercial operation and has been turned over to Otter Tail Power Company, a subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation. EDF Renewables developed and managed the construction process for Otter Tail Power under an Asset Purchase Agreement and turnkey Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Agreement. Located approximately 10 miles southwest of Kulm, North Dakota, in McIntosh and Dickey Counties, the project created 260 construction jobs as well as injected millions of dollars in economic benefits to the local area. The 75 Vestas wind turbines are expected to generate enough energy…

TransAlta Renewables has entered into definitive agreements for the acquisition of three assets from TransAlta Corporation. The acquisition includes a 100 per cent direct interest in the 207 MW Windrise wind project located in the Municipal District of Willow Creek, Alberta; a 49 per cent economic interest in the 137 MW Skookumchuck wind facility in operation located across Thurston and Lewis Counties in Washington State; and a 100 per cent economic interest in the 29 MW Ada cogeneration facility in operation located in Ada, Michigan. “We are pleased to announce our acquisition of Windrise and economic interests in the Skookumchuck…

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has elected Clyde W. Hewlett, Diana G. Purcel, and Peter E. Slaiby to its Board of Directors. Clyde Hewlett has more than 40 years of experience in offshore engineering design, manufacturing, and operations, having most recently served from 2015 to 2019 as CEO of Oceaneering International. Hewlett has also served on the Board of Directors of Seismic City, Inc. since April 2000. He will chair the OPT Board of Directors’ Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Committee. Diana Purcel has 20 years of experience as a chief financial officer, including 17 years with several small cap publicly…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 29 projects to receive nearly $7.6 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. The projects will advance energy storage technologies under the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation. Energy storage combined with fossil energy assets offers a suite of benefits to asset owners, the electric grid, and society. These benefits include more reliable and affordable energy, a cleaner environment, and stronger power infrastructure. These projects will accelerate the development of technology options to manage the energy transition underway to decarbonize and increase the flexibility of fossil…

Vestas has received a 138 MW order to repower a wind project in the U.S.   With this order, Vestas will replace 73 existing V80-1.8 MW turbines with a total of 73 V110-2.0 MW turbines, including previously purchased 2 MW components. With the largest global installed capacity and service base, Vestas is uniquely positioned to harness operational and technical insights gained from the largest wind data repository in the world, to develop repowering solutions for Vestas and non-Vestas wind turbines alike. Repowering offers solutions for asset owners facing the higher operation and maintenance costs of an aging fleet and mitigates the…

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has selected 10 projects to support marine energy research and development (R&D) and testing infrastructure with totaling up to $22 million funding. Seven out of the 10 projects selected will leverage the expertise and intellectual capital of non-federal research institutions, like universities, by supporting foundational R&D to complement research at the DOE National Labs. “For industry to move toward commercialization, we need to utilize all of our available resources. With this funding opportunity, we addressed several critical gaps in the marine energy industry to advance early-stage R&D and build testing…

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap, the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy. Announced in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) seeks to create and sustain American leadership in energy storage. In addition to concerted research efforts, the Roadmap’s approach includes accelerating the transition of technologies from the lab to the marketplace, focusing on ways to competitively manufacture technologies at scale in the United States, and ensuring secure supply chains to enable domestic manufacturing. The Roadmap includes an aggressive but achievable goal: to develop…

EDF Renewables North America’s Space City Solar Project is progressing with critical development milestones having signed the first tranche of 55 megawatts (MWac) / 73 MWdc to BASF through a Power Purchase Agreement. The Project’s total capacity is up to 345 MWac / 455 MWdc. Space City Solar, located in Wharton County, Texas, is expected to start construction in Summer 2021 and begin delivery of clean electricity in Summer 2022. Approximately 300 jobs are expected to be created during the construction phase with more than $30 million generated in new tax revenue over the operating life for Wharton County taxing…

Vestas has signed a new agreement with Casa dos Ventos for the 360 MW Babilônia project, located in the cities of Morro do Chapéu and Várzea Nova, in Bahia. As the fourth contract between the companies in just two years, the order takes the cooperation past the 1.5 GW mark and highlights Casa dos Ventos’ position as Vestas’ largest customer in Latin America and one of the largest investors in the development of wind projects in Brazil. The order includes 80 V150-4.2 MW wind turbines delivered in 4.5 MW Power Optimized Mode as well as a 20-year Active Output Management…

Scotland’s hydrogen sector will receive £100 million over the next five years to support a green recovery and transition to net zero. Scotland is set to become a leading hydrogen nation, with an ambition to generate 5GW of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen by 2030 – enough to power the equivalent of 1.8 million homes. Economic impact research suggests the industry has the potential to be worth up to £25 billion a year to the Scottish economy by 2045. “We are the first country in the UK to publish a Hydrogen Policy Statement that sets out how we can make the…