Energy Management Articles
Blog posts tagged with "AWEA"
Solar and wind industries ask Congress for extensions amidst COVID-19
Solar Energy Industries Association and American Wind Energy Association wrote a letter to Congress detailing the challenges the renewable energy faces in the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic and offering solutions to ensure work opportunities and establish a new clean energy grid during the crisis.
AWEA Corporate Buyer's Guide to Wind Energy
Corporations are setting ambitious targets for renewable energy procurement, and are choosing wind energy more than any other source. AWEA (American Wind Energy Association) presents the "Corporate Buyer's Guide to Wind Energy,"
First-time C&I’s drive record wind PPAs
Led by first-time wind PPA participants Adobe, AT&T, and Nestle, along with repeat customers Bloomberg, Facebook, Nike, and T-Mobile, the number of wind PPAs signed in the first quarter of 2018 reached 3,500 MW, the highest level in any quarter since American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) began tracking them in 2013.
New wind farms drive investment in 2017 and beyond
The U.S. wind power industry ended 2017 with $11 billion in new private investment and 7,017 MW of new wind capacity, according to the U.S. Wind Industry Fourth Quarter 2017 Market Report, released on Jan. 30 by the American Wind Energy Association
Roundup: The Senate tax bill's energy impacts
The tax bill passed by the U.S. Senate early in the morning Dec. 2 includes, among other measures with significant energy industry impacts, a number of provisions expected to negatively impact clean energy investments.
Groups release US grid study ahead of DOE's
A new study funded by the Advanced Energy Economy and the American Wind Energy Association has found that the shifting U.S. electricity resource mix does not threaten the reliability of the country's power system.
EIA says wind reached 5.5% of US grid in 2016
Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota all sourced more than 20% of their electricity generation from wind power during 2016, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
GM helps position wind as all-American energy source
At a General Motors Co. assembly plant in Arlington, Texas, that will soon be powered entirely with wind power, the American Wind Energy Association released its fourth quarter 2016 market report and sought to position the renewable energy source as all-American solution for U.S. businesses.
AWEA: Rural, Rust Belt wind powering corporates
As commercial and industrial corporations are turning to wind energy to help meet increasingly large renewable energy goals, the American Wind Energy Association has published an analysis of corporate wind power purchase agreements to date.
Bolstered by Google, Dow Chemical, nonutility buyers made up 19% of Q2 wind capacity contracts
U.S. wind industry activity approached record levels in the second quarter of 2016 as utilities and other purchasers locked in record-low wind costs, according to the American Wind Energy Association, which released its quarterly market report July 26.
Google recognized for contributions to wind energy
The American Wind Energy Association said Google's leadership in the space has helped open the market for new wind development
The wind is blowing toward corporate buyers big time, AWEA says
About 75% of the wind megawatts contracted through power purchase agreements in the fourth quarter of 2015 were through corporations, according to a new report.
