Reuters: Danish state-controlled oil and natural gas group DONG Energy said on Friday it had awarded Siemens a supply contract for up to 500 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts. The wind turbines will be deployed on DONG Energy's coming offshore wind farms in Northe...

Reuters: Danish state-controlled oil and natural gas group DONG Energy said on Friday it had awarded Siemens a supply contract for up to 500 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts. The wind turbines will be deployed on DONG Energy's coming offshore wind farms in Northe...

As part of our ongoing NOLA Changemakers interview series we talked to Jon Guidroz, Director of Project Development at Free Flow Power, about his clean energy project and the unique spirit of NOLA. Can you tell us a little about what Free Flow Power does? Free Flow Power Corporation was founded to p...

Image via Wikipedia Excellent Observation from Andy Quayle at Techburgh  he’s not a  -    blowhard - a very boastful and talkative person boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter egoist, egotist, swellhead - a conceited and self-centered person “Pretty cool and none too usef...

With serious questions being raised about the costs of the world’s largest planned offshore wind farm, the London Array, and the never-ending saga that has crimped the controversial offshore Cape Wind project in Massachusetts, it’s easy to dismiss offshore wind as being too expensive and...

Promoted from diaries, with some maniacal laughter mixed in. - Moe Lane. Yr humble correspondent recently provided a run-down on the Cape Wind Project, a private initiative to construct a 130-tower windfarm in Nantucket Sound. As it happens, offshore Massachusetts has the combined advantages of bein...

BBC screens one of the worst eco-series ever to appear on TV...

VC, deals, startups Wade Roush wrote: Play Hard Sports, the Foxborough, MA-based online gaming startup founded last April by former Turbine CEO Jeffrey Anderson, has closed an $8 million Series B round, according to a report today in Private Equity Hub. Play Hard is developing as-yet-unreleased mult...

Short news on wind power in midcoast Maine: The Beaver Ridge wind project in Freedom, Maine has been completed, with three turbines erected to bring power to 2,000 homes. Residents of Jackson, Maine have approved plans for the town to proceed with talks with energy companies to build wind turbines t...

National Public Radio: Sure, Iowa's known for corn. But for decades it was a major source of house hold appliances. Industry giants like Amana, Maytag and others supplied much of Americans' demand. Most of the factories are closed now, and the losses hit hard in places like the Amana Colonies, commu...