EASTERN PLAINS
By Justin Wingerter
BusinessDen
A $2 billion wind energy project near the Kansas border has prompted two lawsuits against a small Eastern Plains county: one aiming to stop it, another by the firm building it.
The Towner Energy Center, near the Kiowa County town of Towner —...
By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
One ship was pulled across the sea with the help of an enormous sail that looked as if it belonged to a kite-surfing giant. Another navigated the oceans between China and Brazil this summer with steel and composi...
By Stanley Reed
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Wind energy projects are being proposed around the world to help meet climate goals, but the largest maker of turbines is finding that supply chain issues and pandemic lockdowns are hampering wind farm construction and hurting financial resu...
By Stanley Reed
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Oil giants such as BP and Shell, as well as Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, look like the big winners in Scotland’s first offshore wind auction, whose results were announced Monday.
If the proposed wind farms are constructed, they would triple Brit...
By Stanley Reed
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Oil giants such as BP and Shell, as well as Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, look like the big winners in Scotland’s first offshore wind auction, whose results were announced Monday.
If the proposed wind farms are constructed, they would triple Britain’s ca...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a plan to develop larges cale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the first long-term strategy from the government to produce electricity from offshore tu...
Texas company launches site in Broomfield to teach workers
By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
The demand for wind-energy workers is expected to surge in the next few years, and Colorado could be a major training ground for an industry looking to meet the need.
Workrise, a workforce manageme...
By Jaydn Watson-Fisher
Greeley Tribune
Weld County soon will be the home of a 145-megawatt wind farm, adding to a significant investment.
Guzman Energy, an energy provider, and Leeward Renewable Energy, a developer, announced this week they are executing a power purchase agreement for the...
Denver’s Keystone Tower gets grants from U.S. to develop offshore projects
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A Denver company has tapped a construction technique used in the oil and gas industry to make bigger and cheaper wind-turbine towers faster, setting the stage to help expand...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration Friday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to develop offshore wind farms in shallow waters between Long Island, New York, and New Jersey as part of its push to transition...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The notion of wind farms churning in the Pacific Ocean, creating clean energy to power homes and businesses, has long been dismissed because of logistical challenges posed by a deep ocean floor and opposition from t...
For years, the idea of turbines churning in the Pacific was dismissed as impractical. The deep water poses an array of logistical challenges, and the Navy would rather not deal with all those offshore obstacles.
But new technology and a new president determined to rapidly expand win...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration is moving to sharply increase offshore wind energy along the East Coast, saying Monday it is taking initial steps toward approving a huge wind farm off the New Jersey coast as part of an ef...
By Dionne Searcey
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RAWLINS, WYO. » The coal-layered underground helped bring settlers to this scrubby, windwhipped part of southern Wyoming, where generations found a steady paycheck in the mines and took pride in powering the nation.
But now, it is energy from the...
By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion
Green energy isn’t to blame for Texas’s power problems. It’s the state’s exceptionalism that has made the situation worse than it might otherwise have been.
Loud voices, from that of Gov. Greg Abbott on down, are being raised against renewable energy, blaming wind ...
POWER CAPACITY By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest electric utility, has reached a significant milestone for how much wind energy capacity is in its system. Xcel is now one of only two energy companies in the country to have the capability of producin...
Shared from the 10/27/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
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Even as businesses around the world shut down this spring, executives at EDF Renewables were hopeful they would finish installing 99 wind turbines in southern Nebraska before a year-end deadlin...
By Mead Gruver
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE» Bigger and more-efficient equipment will allow an electric utility to redevelop Wyoming’s first commercial wind farm so it produces the same amount of power with far fewer turbines, an example of the growing feasibility of renewable energy in the top U....
Shared from the 6/4/2019 The Denver Post eEdition
By Mario Sanelli
The Denver Post Glenwood Springs on Colorado’s Western Slope last week became the seventh U.S. city — and the second in the state — to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy.
Every home, business and street light ...
WIND IS WHERE THE JOBS ARE_
Extract of full article By Mark Sumner in Daily KOS
Thursday Apr 27, 2017 · 2:40 PM
The fastest-growing occupation in the United States — by a long shot, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — might surprise you: wind turbine tec...
