By WPED Staff RWE Renewables‘ East Raymond facility, a 200-MW onshore wind farm located in Willacy and Cameron counties, Texas, has achieved commercial operation. “We’re excited to announce our 27th onshore wind farm in the U.S. and our eighth project on the Texas Coast,” said Silvia Ortin, COO, North America, RWE Renewables. “We’re also very…
By WPED Staff Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and specialty civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract for the Shady Oaks II Wind Farm in Illinois. Algonquin Power & Utilities, a growing renewable energy and regulated utility company, awarded the project to White Construction, a subsidiary…
By WPED Staff The RWE Renewables portfolio in North America continues to expand as Boiling Springs, a 148-MW project, located in Woodward County, Oklahoma, has achieved commercial operation. The facility is RWE’s first project in the state and in the Southwest Power Pool. “Under very challenging conditions, our teams have delivered this project with outstanding…
By WPED Staff Avangrid Renewables completed commissioning of the 154.8-MW Tatanka Ridge Wind Farm on January 5, 2021. The facility’s 56 wind turbines are located in Deuel County, South Dakota, northeast of Brookings. The facility is owned by Tatanka Ridge Wind, which is jointly owned by Avangrid Renewables (15%) and WEC Energy Group (85%). Dairyland…
By WPED Staff Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract valued at approximately $100 million. Apex Clean Energy, who develops, constructs, and operates utility-scale wind and solar power facilities across North America, awarded the Lincoln Land project to White Construction,…
By WPED Staff Peninsula Clean Energy has agreed to procure 245 MW of power from three California wind projects, a significant supplement to a growing portfolio of solar generation that is helping the agency achieve its goal of providing reliable all-renewable, emission-free power by 2025. “In order to hit our 100% renewable goal we will…
By WPED Staff Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract for the 185-MW Glacier Sands wind farm in Mason County, Illinois. Cordelio Power, a North American-based renewable power producer, awarded the project to White Construction, a subsidiary of IEA that…
By WPED Staff Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren, has closed on the acquisition of the company’s first wind energy center, a 400-MW project in northeast Missouri. The purchase of the High Prairie Renewable Energy Center in Adair and Schuyler counties is the first of two planned investments in Missouri-based wind generation, which will add…
By WPED Staff The 150-MW Merricourt Wind Project from EDF Renewables North America achieved commercial operation and has been turned over to Otter Tail Power Company, a subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation. EDF Renewables developed and managed the construction process for Otter Tail Power under an asset purchase agreement and turnkey EPC agreement. Merricourt Wind…
By WPED Staff RWE Renewables has completed the successful tax equity financing of its 220-MW Cranell Onshore Wind Farm in Refugio County, Texas. The company secured tax equity financing with JPM Capital Corporation upon the Cranell project achieving commercial operation in the third quarter of 2020. “We are proud of our record of working hand-in-hand…
By WPED Staff Enel Green Power North America has begun operating a 199-MW expansion of the Cimarron Bend wind farm in Clark County, Kansas, making the overall 599-MW facility the largest renewable plant owned by the company currently in operation worldwide. The 236.5 MW White Cloud wind farm also began operations in Nodaway County, Missouri….
By WPED Staff BayWa r.e. has completed construction and achieved financial close of the Amadeus Wind project in Texas. Located Rotan, the 250-MW wind farm has begun selling power into the grid and will generate enough clean, renewable energy to meet the electricity needs of more than 74,800 homes annually. Amadeus is the largest onshore…
By WPED Staff Dominion Energy announced today the company has filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) the required Construction and Operations Plan (COP) to build the 2,640-MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) commercial project, the largest planned offshore wind farm in the United States. “This is an important step in the process…
By WPED Staff Acciona has begun the process of energizing wind turbines at La Chalupa in Cameron County, Texas. When fully operational, the wind farm will be Acciona’s largest U.S. asset at 198 MW, and will push the company’s U.S. portfolio over 1 GW. La Chalupa is the company’s 10th wind farm in the United…
By WPED Staff Leeward Renewable Energy‘s Mountain Breeze Wind Farm in Weld County, Colorado has reached commercial operation and the company has closed the funding under its tax equity financing for the project. Leeward procured the wind turbine equipment from GE Renewable Energy, and Citi provided tax equity financing of $162.9 million. Mountain Breeze sells…