post | 08.21.2014
Today the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to retire all three coal-fired units of the Allen Fossil Plant (990 MW) in Memphis and approved replacement with...
post | 08.20.2014
Officials are confirming that two wind farm proposals in Alabama will not be moving forward. As such, Cherokee and Etowah counties will forego about $27-$43 million in combined new tax revenues -...
post | 08.19.2014
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has released its 2013 Wind Technologies Market Report. This annual report notes important achievements for the wind industry. Overall, wind turbine...
post | 08.18.2014
Iselle (2014) now joins likes of Irene (2011) and Sandy (2012), as a case study showing that wind turbines can withstand tropical storms and hurricanes. It's been a while since the United States has...
post | 08.14.2014
post | 08.13.2014
post | 08.12.2014
North Carolina is one step closer to developing an offshore wind farm. Yesterday, August 11, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced three Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) off the coast of...
post | 08.11.2014
post | 08.08.2014
post | 08.07.2014
If Hurricanes Iselle and Julio make landfall, several wind farms will assuredly be in the storms' paths. But, as we've documented with Hurricane Sandy (2012) and Hurricane Irene (2011), hurricanes...