Latest Wind power News
Federal grant boosts power grid and renewable energy in northern Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A $425 million federal grant is breathing new life into a proposal for a wind power project that would provide enough electricity for about 450,000 homes, along with construction of a transmission corridor in northern Maine to get the electricity to the regional power grid....
Britain's last coal-fired electricity plant is closing. It ends 142 years of coal power in the UK
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is closing on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in central England is finishing its final shift at midnight after more than...
Climate solutions: 2 kinds of ocean energy inch forward off the Oregon coast
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — On a cloudy late August morning, Burke Hales was on a boat a mile off the central Oregon coast, pointing to a sandy beach along the forested shoreline. It was there, the Oregon State University oceanography professor said, that the subsea cables from the first large wave...
China is backing off coal power plant approvals after a 2022-23 surge that alarmed climate experts
BEIJING (AP) — Approvals for new coal-fired power plants in China dropped sharply in the first half of this year, according to an analysis released Tuesday, after a flurry of permits in the previous two years raised concern about the government's commitment to limiting climate change. ...
US, India, Russia, Japan are building out wind power much too slowly for climate change, report says
The world is falling well short of a promise made at global climate talks last year to triple the amount of wind power, according to a report by an energy think tank released Thursday. Last December, countries at the U.N. COP28 climate conference committed to tripling all renewable...
Blade collapse, New York launch and New Jersey research show uneven progress of offshore wind
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Three events Wednesday highlighted the uneven progress of the offshore wind industry in the Northeast, including the start of a major project in New York, research aimed at preventing environmental damage in New Jersey, and a temporary shutdown of a wind farm in...
Previous bidder tries again with new offshore wind proposal in New Jersey
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A partnership that proposed an offshore wind farm in New Jersey last year but was not selected by state utility regulators to move forward with it is trying again. Community Offshore Wind said Thursday it had submitted a bid a day earlier to build a wind...
