The 419 MW Mesquite Star wind farm was just completed in Fisher County, Texas, and is now providing electricity for Ecolab, Lowe’s, Intuit, and Brown University. In the case of Intuit (which you may have used to do your taxes this year), the company has now reached its 100% renewable electricity goal. As the headline notes, it has reached that goal 10 years earlier than it had committed.
Offshore wind can avoid problems and costs through the community engagement lessons of other clean economy sectors. Read the new report from Mike Casey of Tigercomm, a top cleantech public affairs expert.
The American Wind Energy Association’s latest report says wind is now the number 1 choice for new energy generation capacity in America.
The American Wind Energy Association has described language in recently-released Defense and Department of the Interior FY 2020 appropriations bills as “redundant” and says it threatens to needlessly delaying the development of the country’s offshore wind pipeline.
The total volume of US wind power construction and development activity grew to record levels in the first quarter of 2019, according to new figures published by the American Wind Energy Association, growing by 6,146 megawatts (MW).
The costs of wind and solar energy keep falling; installing a new wind turbine costs about a third of what it did in 2008. Solar prices fell by 88 percent during that time. In fact, renewable energy is so inexpensive, utilities have found that they can save customers money by closing coal plants early and replacing them with wind and solar power.
United States wind power capacity increased by 8% in 2018, according to the American Wind Energy Association, reaching a cumulative total of 96.5 gigawatts (GW), and supporting an industry which now boasts a record 114,000 jobs, over 500 domestic factories, and more than $1 billion a year in revenue for states and communities.
The Wall Street Journal stepped up to the proverbial plate last week to take a swing at the Democrats’ Green New Deal policy package which has been the focus of intense speculation and ire over the last few weeks as all and sundry weighed in on the validity of transitioning the United States towards relying solely on renewable energy.
Corporate clean energy procurement levels skyrocketed in 2018 according to a raft of new reports which highlight the continued dominance of the technology and data industry in driving clean energy purchasing and the increasing importance of the wind energy industry in supplying the necessary clean energy.
A group of over two dozen wind energy companies involved in the United States announced on Monday they were signing up to back a new fund which will facilitate research speeding the development and deployment of innovative solutions related to wind and wildlife.
