Whoosh! Wind Power Wins, Pipelines Implode In Fossil Fuel Week From Hell
New wind power project sails ahead while fossil fuel stakeholders come to grips with record breaking heat and a fresh round of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Wind Energy Transmission Slugfest In Missouri Over Grain Belt Express
Wind energy transmission fans go mano a mano with foes over Grain Belt Express whack-a-mole approval process in Missouri, and Illinois, too.
Giant Wind Power Transmission Project Could Spark New Wind Rush In Wind Belt
An old project to harvest low cost wind power from the nation’s midwestern “wind belt” gets new life from the leading renewable energy comany Invenergy.
USA To Offshore Wind, Onshore Wind Investors: Do Business Here!
Trump or no Trump, US Energy Department signals strong support for offshore wind development and fights for its authority to accelerate the construction of new onshore wind energy transition lines.
GE On Board With Yuuuuuge US Wind Power Project
GE looks forward to a wind powered future, pitches in to help build new 4,000 MW Plains & Eastern wind power transmission line.
Zombie Kansas Wind Transmission Project Rises Again, In Missouri
The massive four-state Grain Belt Express wind transmission line stalled out in Missouri last year, but its developer is gearing up to try again.
US Dept Of Energy OKs Clean Line Energy’s $2.5 Billion Plains & Eastern Line Transmission…
Clean Line Energy’s Plains & Eastern Line $2.5 billion transmission project — which will deliver electricity generated by wind energy projects in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle area throughout the southeastern US — was recently approved by the US Department of Energy, according to reports. This means that the Department … [continued]
National Grid Has 40 Million Reasons to Extend the Wind Tax Credit
What do they know that we don’t know? The utility giant National Grid has just announced a $40 million investment in four new high-voltage, long-distance renewable energy transmission projects by Clean Line. The move comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives continue to stall on extending a … [continued]
Tax Credits Pivotal for Fast-Growing Wind Industry
Iowa is a clear wind energy leader. The folks there know that wind energy is an economic dynamo… when given the proper love. In this exclusive guest post below, Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority, shows how Iowa’s story sheds light on what happens when the wind … [continued]
Big Wind, Renewable Energy Boost as Illinois Gov. Quinn Announces Rock Island Clean Line Project…
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn yesterday announced a project labor agreement between Rock Island Clean Line and Flora, Ill.-based Southwire that over a three-year period “will support wind turbine and transmission manufacturing in Illinois and create 1,450 union construction jobs. “The Rock Island Clean Line will enable some $7 billion worth of investments in new wind energy projects to move forward, which today cannot be constructed due to lack of transmission,” according to an IGNN press release.
