Wind

The Timken Co., a company that specializes in engineered bearings and power transmission products, says it is allocating more than $75 million in capital investments through early 2022 to increase the company’s renewable energy capabilities across its global footprint. “This has been a breakout year for us in renewable energy markets,” says Richard G. Kyle, … [Read more...] about Timken Invests Heavily to Expand Renewable Footprint

Portland General Electric Co. (PGE), an Oregon-based fully integrated energy company, says it has started commercial power generation at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Eastern Oregon.  Wheatridge is a joint project of PGE and a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC. The new facility marks a milestone in Oregon’s acceleration to a clean energy … [Read more...] about PGE’s Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility Begins Generating Power

Cognite, a global industrial AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, says it is collaborating with WindSim, a provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based wind farm design tools (WFDT) utilized for the design of wind farms both onshore and offshore. This partnership will maximize new and existing asset performance, increase energy efficiency, and reduce transmission … [Read more...] about Cognite, WindSim Partner on Wind Farm Simulation Technology

US Wind Inc., an offshore wind energy development company, has named Jeffrey Grybowski as CEO.  Grybowski will lead US Wind as the company embarks on the development of a major offshore wind project off the coast of Maryland. In August, funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management Inc. committed to investing up to $265 million in convertible debt and equity to … [Read more...] about US Wind Names Grybowski CEO

WindESCo, a company that specializes in renewable energy optimization, has entered a partnership with Capital Power Corp., a Canadian wholesale power generator, to assess improvements to their Canadian wind power plants’ efficiencies by leveraging the WindESCo WeBoost wind optimization platform. “Yaw misalignment has a serious impact on energy capture, power … [Read more...] about WindESCo, Capital Power Partner to Optimize Wind Turbine Performance