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Auburnpub | March 01, 2020

At the end of September, 333 active solar installations in Cayuga County — ranging from homes with a few panels on the roof to an array taking up 28 acres in Ledyard — were capable of generating a combined nine megawatts of power, according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Absent from the online solar projects currently happening in the county is any large-scale commercial system. But that could be changing very soon — and it would mean exponential growth in the a...

Solar Builder | March 25, 2020

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) and EDF Renewables North America have bumped up their previously announced partnership to develop a portfolio of distributed solar projects across Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Originally signed in 2019 for 30 MWac of solar power on 10-12 prospective sites, there are now 15 projects expected in service in 2021 that will generate more than 60 MWac of local solar energy to ODEC member communities. The energy generated will be purchased by the cooperativ...

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Vestas | February 11, 2021

Vestas announced designs for a 15 megawatt (MW) seaward wind turbine on Wednesday, with the Danish firm wanting to introduce a model one year from now prior to sloping up creation in 2024. As per the Aarhus-settled organization, the monster V236-15.0 MW turbine will actually want to create about 80 gigawatt hours out of every year. This, it claims, would be sufficient to control roughly 20,000 European family units, saving more than 38,000 metric huge loads of carbo...

Bloomberg | April 29, 2020

European utilities with bulging renewable energy portfolios are showing that the way out of the coronavirus slump is colored green. Energy companies from Orsted A/S to Iberdrola SA reported robust first quarter earnings in a period that has been bedeviled by a slump in energy demand and a collapse in gas prices. Owning large wind and solar portfolios has so far protected those companies from the worst effects of the crisis. Utilities are the third best performing sector on the Stoxx 600 this yea...