Duke Energy (DUK) has signed a long term 20 year agreement to sell 99 MW (a single megawatt powers about 200 – 300 homes) from its new Wyoming wind farm to PacifiCorp. Duke will begin building the wind farm early next year which will contain 66 wind turbines generating energy by late 09. The output will serve customers in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California.
Duke has also agreed to purchase 100 turbines from … Read the rest
General Electric (GE) has added 3 new wind farms in upstate New York to its growing portfolio of renewable energy investments which are comprised mostly of wind projects and now total 4 billion (20% of the total). That represents a 33% increase in renewable energy investments from just 5 months ago and the company is predicting and the 50% increase by 2010.
The upstate New York investments are in a project being developed by Noble … Read the rest