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American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC), a provider of products for the wind and power grid markets has suffered through a nasty stretch during the past 18 months following the refusal of the...
US manufacturing firm Broadwind Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: BWEN) announced today that it had won a contract to supply 14 wind turbine towers to Goldwind, China’s second-largest wind energy company. The...
US Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) is scheduled to introduce legislation today that would allow a wide range of renewable energy projects to qualify as master limited partnerships (MLPs). The...
At a US Senate hearing earlier this week, the US head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) policy analysis told the members that after a record year of US investment in green energy in 2011,...
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Ltd. (NYSE: MY) has opened a US research and development facility at North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus. The new R&D center will focus its...
The US has taken back the honor of leading the world in investments in clean energy technology. China has led world investment since 2008. The total amount invested in clean tech during 2011 was $260...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has signed agreements with a number of companies that will use GE’s technology to explore for energy, generate power, and make beer in China. The contracts literally...
The wind power industry has taken something of a back seat to the solar PV makers in the last few months. News of bankruptcies, missed earnings targets, and collapsing prices will always supplant...
As the cost for crystalline solar PV panels falls toward the magic number of $1/watt, the cost of building a utility scale solar plant approaches the cost of building an equally sized wind farm. Add...
Get ready for massively larger new wind turbines… Currently available wind turbines for land-based wind farms typically generate between 1.5 and 3 megawatts. Most include a gearbox to transfer the...
Since last April the news from American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) has been uniformly awful. The company’s largest customer refused to pay for shipments received in the second half of 2010...