OwnEnergy, a national leader in the development of mid-sized wind farms, announced that it has entered into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement with Yahoo!, Inc. Under the terms of the 15-year PPA, Yahoo will purchase wind power, expected to reach 100,000 MWh annually, which will be used to offset much of ...
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Siemens Awarded 15-year Extension on Service and Maintenance Agreement for Washington Wind Farms
Feb 27Siemens has signed two long-term wind service and maintenance agreements covering 132 SWT-2.3 turbines at two wind projects in Washington state. Summit Power Group, LLC, based in Seattle (managing member of White Creek Wind I, LLC “White Creek” and asset manager of Harvest Wind Project “Harvest Wind”) represented the two projects. ...
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Ecotech Releases Ebooks for the Renewable Energy Workforce
Feb 27Ecotech Institute has announced the release of two free comprehensive e-book guides to starting a wind or solar energy career. These guides cover everything from a day in the life of renewable energy technicians and potential salary earnings to required skills and advice from professional solar and wind technicians. The ...
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Profile: Janicki Industries
Feb 27Washington-based composites firm has been leading the innovation charge for large-scale, high-precision CNC milling for more than two decades At the heart of innovation lies the search for improvement — a better, faster, more efficient way. A less expensive way. In 1993, Peter Janicki, an engineer, and Founder and CEO of Janicki ...
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NREL’S SOWFA Wind Farm Simulation Software Offers Holistic View of all Turbines on a Wind Farm
Feb 27Wind energy is blowing away skeptics — it’s so close to achieving cost parity with fossil fuels that just a little extra efficiency is all that is likely needed to push it into the mainstream and past the Energy Department’s goal of 20 percent wind energy by 2030. That extra efficiency ...
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