“AWEA applauds FERC for its leadership in finalizing reforms that could serve to cut the Gordian knot that is blocking investment in our aging power grid.  This is an important step toward removing the main hurdle:  how to make sure all users pay their fair share of new lines.  Preventing free-riding will help improve grid reliability, and reduce electricity bills by facilitating access to lower cost resources, including wind energy.”

The current system for determining how new power lines are paid for is flawed.  The plans too narrowly define who should pay for new projects and stifle investment, resulting in inadequate expansion of the grid.  The agency’s new policy requires transmission providers to file regional plans for transmission lines that ensure that consumers who do not benefit do not pay, and conversely, those who do benefit do pay.  FERC has clear authority and responsibility to decide fair cost allocation.  Plans must also account for public policy goals set by state or federal laws or regulations, placing renewable energy laws on par with the goals of increasing reliability and curbing power congestion.

AWEA Senior Vice President for Public Policy Rob Gramlich said, “Allocating costs is a core responsibility of FERC and this initiative is well founded on a large body of law.  There is really no alternative to this policy other than letting the grid continue to weaken and deteriorate—an outcome that many companies profit from but which is not in the public interest. In addition to a more reliable electric grid, consumers will also benefit from access to long-term lower energy prices when transmission barriers to competition are removed.”

For more information of FERC’s announcement, visit: http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/Files/20110721111136-Fact-Sheet-E-6.pdf

“Transmission is critical to our clean energy future. FERC action is needed to do the hard work that regulators do—deciding the fair share for each market participant to pay for new grid facilities. The status quo—where there’s no policy, nothing gets paid for, and nothing gets built—is untenable.”

The survey finds that:
·         85% statewide have a favorable impression of wind energy and wind power companies, including 62% with a “very favorable” impression.
·         A majority of Iowa voters choose wind as their preferred energy source for the state, more than 3-to-1 over all other sources.
·         Over eight in ten voters (81%) say wind energy companies have been good for the state’s economy, while fully 77% say these companies have helped bring new jobs to the state. 
 
“You don’t see numbers like these for anything except mom and apple pie,” said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, which commissioned the poll.
 
“In the state that knows wind energy the best, people overwhelmingly like it – and the companies that make it,” Bode said. “These poll results ought to reassure anyone thinking about inviting wind energy into their community, and getting all the rural economic development benefits and manufacturing base that Iowa has gotten from wind power.”
 
The attached memo from the pollsters describes these and other findings in the survey, conducted May 22-24, 2011 with a margin of error of +/- 4.9% for the statewide results.
 
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AWEA is the national trade association of America’s wind industry, with more than 2,500 member companies, including global leaders in wind power and energy development, wind turbine manufacturing, component and service suppliers, and the world’s largest wind power trade show. AWEA is the voice of wind energy in the U.S., promoting renewable energy to power a cleaner, stronger America. Look up information on wind energy at the AWEA website. Find insight on industry issues at AWEA’s blog Into the Wind. Join AWEA on Facebook. Follow AWEA on Twitter.

“We are proud to announce that we are officially changing our name in the United States and Canada to EDP Renewables North America, LLC,” said Gabriel Alonso,” CEO of EDP Renewable North America (EDPR NA). “The name and brand change should be perceived as an acknowledgment of the size, strength and diversity of EDP Renewables (EDPR) and making EDPR the cornerstone of our branding worldwide,” Alonso added.

The company sent out separate notification to customers, vendors, contractors, landowners, etc. to explain the name and brand change. EDPR Renewables will make this change as seamlessly as possible while maintaining its commitment to excellence and global leadership in clean energy sales, development and operations.

The company will continue to operate in its current structure and contacts will remain unchanged. All e-mail address prefixes will remain the same but the suffixes will change to edpr.com. The old e-mail addresses will continue to be operation for the foreseeable future. The company’s web address will be unified to www.edpr.com.

About EDP Renewables NA

EDP Renewables NA constructs, owns and operates wind farms throughout North America. Based in Houston, Texas with 26 wind farms and over 15 offices across the United States and Canada, EDPR NA has developed more than 3,600 megawatts (MW) and operates over 3,400 MW of wind farms. With approximately 300 employees, EDPR NA highly qualified team has a proven capacity to develop, construct, own and operate high quality wind farms.

About EDP Renováveis

EDP Renováveis, S.A. (“EDP Renewables” or “EDPR”), a global leader in the renewable energy sector develops, constructs, owns and operates renewable generation facilities. With a sound development pipeline, first class assets and market-leading operating capacity, EDPR has grown extensively in recent years. The company’s long-term growth is driven by favorable renewable energy market conditions in the United States and throughout the world. EDPR is committed to renewable energy generation as it becomes increasingly reliable and competitive due to technological advancements that lead to greater efficiencies. The company operates in the most attractive markets, continuously expanding to new areas of the world. EDPR is currently present in the United States, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and the United Kingdom. EDPR is listed on the Euronext Lisbon Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext: EDPR).

For more information, visit www.edpr.com.

Contact:
Ellen Carey                                                                                                202-249-7357
ecarey@awea.org
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 30, 2011) —The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced today the installation of its Board of Directors for 2011-2012, led by electric utility executive Ned Hall. The new Board begins its tenure as the industry finds itself in an all-too-familiar environment of policy uncertainty, with the looming expiration of the federal Production Tax Credit rapidly approaching at the end of 2012.
 
“Having contributed 35 percent of all new electricity generating capacity since 2007, the U.S. wind industry is generating electricity and economic development alike in the face of both a challenging economic climate and, more importantly, policy instability that makes for an extremely difficult business environment,” said Ned Hall, the new Board Chair, who is an Executive Vice President, Regional President for North America and Chairman, Global Wind Generation and Energy Storage of AES, a global utility that generates electricity in 29 countries.
 
“The wind industry is doing its part to provide America with clean, affordable, homegrown energy—while simultaneously creating jobs and generating revenue for communities small and large, rural and urban—but it can do so much more,” Hall said. “Wind energy simply needs the same stable policy signals under which other industries operate.”
 
Hall took his position as Chair when the Board of Directors met at the WINDPOWER 2011 Conference & Exhibition in Anaheim at the end of May. He replaced GE Energy’s Vic Abate, who remains on the Board as past Chair. Thomas Carnahan of Wind Capital Group was elected Chair-elect, and is slated to take the Chair post at WINDPOWER 2012, to be held in Atlanta, Ga. 
 
Other officers for 2011-2012 are:
 
·         Gabriel Alonso of Horizon Wind Energy, Secretary
·         Don Furman of Iberdrola Renewables, Treasurer
 
Joining the AWEA Board this year will be Andy Cukurs of Suzlon Wind Energy Corp.
 
Joining the Board as advisors will be:
 
·         Marty Crotty of Upwind Solutions, Inc. (Advisor, O&M)
·         Jimmy Glotfelty of Clean Line Energy Partners (Advisor, Transmission)
·         Jacob Susman of OwnEnergy (Advisor, Community Wind)
 
 
 
 
Other members continuing their service on the AWEA Board include:
 
·         Jan Blittersdorf, NRG Systems
·         P. Barry Butler, University of Iowa (Advisor, R&D/Education)
·         Karen Conover, DNV Global Energy Concepts
·         John DiDonato, NextEra Energy Resources
·         David Drescher, Exelon Power
·         John M. Eber, JPMorgan Capital Corp.
·         Michael Garland, Pattern Energy Group LP
·         Jay Godfrey, American Electric Power (Advisor, Utilities)
·         John Grabner, Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Co.
·         Jan Kjaersgaard, Siemens Energy, Inc.
·         Andrew Kruse, Southwest Windpower
·         Steve Lockard, TPI Composites
·         Peter Mandelstam, NRG Bluewater Wind
·         Randolph Mann, Edison Mission Energy
·         Michael Polsky, Invenergy
·         Susan Reilly, RES Americas
·         Steve Trenholm, E.ON Climate & Renewables North America
·         Greg Wetstone, Terra-Gen Power
·         Martha Wyrsch, Vestas Americas
·         Ed Zaelke, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (Advisor, Conference & Education)
 
“The strength of the AWEA Board is in its diversity, for it includes top leaders from all facets of the industry,” said AWEA CEO Denise Bode. “On behalf of AWEA and the industry, I thank all of our Directors for their commitment to answering America’s call for more wind energy and to ensuring that the industry can operate in a stable environment so that American wind power can deliver on its promise of clean, affordable, homegrown energy that fosters economic development and energy security.”
 
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AWEA is the national trade association of America’s wind industry, with more than 2,500 member companies, including global leaders in wind power and energy development, wind turbine manufacturing, component and service suppliers, and the world’s largest wind power trade show. AWEA is the voice of wind energy in the U.S., promoting renewable energy to power a cleaner, stronger America. Look up information on wind energy at the AWEA website. Find insight on industry issues at AWEA’s blog Into the Wind. Join AWEA on Facebook. Follow AWEA on Twitter.

Andy Novey, developer for Patriot Renewables of Quincy, Mass., said the group Friends of Spruce Mountain dropped its appeal on June 6. Novey said his firm and Friends of Spruce Mountain came to a settlement. The details are not public.

“It was a private agreement that we can’t discuss,” Novey said Monday.

On June 9, the project received a building permit, the last hurdle. On June 20 they hope to begin construction on the roads up to the building sites, he said, and they expect to be erecting the turbines by the fall. He called it a “tight frame.”

Novey said the site plan hasn’t been altered and will go forward as it was approved in October 2010. “There have been none to this point. Hopefully it will stay that way.”

The site plan calls for 10 towers capable of producing up to 20 megawatts total.

Patriot Renewables will pay the town of Woodstock $80,000 for conservation purposes, and another $20,000 per year for as long as the turbines are operating.

In February, Friends of Spruce Mountain appealed the Department of Environmental Protection permit to the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, which rejected the appeal 5-1. The group planned to bring the appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Friends of Spruce Mountain argued that the low-frequency sounds from the turbines could disrupt the sleep and the health of abutters, a disputed affliction called “wind turbine syndrome.”

The site plan permit has strict rules for wind noise, capping noise levels at 55 decibels during the day and 45 at night. The DEP order includes a provision requiring that Patriot Renewables collect data at permanently-established sites and to operate a toll-free complaint hot line where residents can report loud turbine noise.

The firm must collect data on the noise and submit it to the DEP. If the DEP finds they are exceeding noise limits, Patriot must reduce the noise levels of the turbines. Smith called it a “belt and suspenders approach” to turbine noise concerns.

The vice president of Friends of Spruce Mountain did not return requests for comment Monday evening.

The Colorado Green Wind Farm was originally modeled and designed with ETAP power systems software. Existing electrical telemetry devices were connected to the ETAP intelligent one-line diagram and metering elements, such as GE Universal Relays, were added to the offline model. This system configuration allows the ETAP Real-Time system to continuously capture and record wind farm operating data. The system detects potential threats by determining the source of potential problems and advises on corrective actions to avoid interruptions and the costs associated with them.

The issue of wind farms losing interconnection with the power grid due to power quality issues is common to a number of wind projects throughout the world. Each time a wind farm disconnects from the power grid, generation is unavailable for a significant period. ETAP Real-Time monitors the voltages and power flows throughout the wind farm network and combines ETAP simulation tools to assist operators in understanding the events that caused an outage. Thereafter, it can test and verify the appropriateness of the solution prior to deploying any changes.

Root cause & effect analysis tools were supplied in order to perform a faster power system triage. With complete system visibility through monitoring and integrated predictive simulation tools, ETAP Real-Time can quickly analyze and provide feedback to the wind farm operator who can then implement appropriate countermeasures.

“Stringent regulations imposed by grid operators require wind farms to guarantee a secure power supply,” states Tanuj Khandelwal, Director of ETAP Automation, “which necessitates state-of-the-art, open and flexible technology that goes beyond conventional power monitoring. Therefore, it is vital for wind farm owners and operators to take steps to implement an intelligent real-time system.”

About Colorado Green Wind Power Project

The 162 megawatt Colorado Green Wind Power Project, located 20 miles south of the Town of Lamar, was developed to help meet Colorado’s demand for renewable electricity. The project utilizes 108 General Electric 1.5 MW wind turbines and is owned by Iberdrola Renewables and Shell WindEnergy Inc. in a 50/50 joint venture. According to American Wind Energy Association calculations, the project provides enough renewable electricity to serve approximately 52,000 average homes each year.

About Operation Technology, Inc.

Operation Technology, Inc. is the designer and developer of ETAP, the most comprehensive analysis platform for the design, simulation, operation, monitoring, control, optimization, and automation of power systems. ETAP is the industry leader used worldwide in all types and sizes of power systems, including generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial systems such as oil and gas, manufacturing, steel, cement, mining, data centers, nuclear facilities, transportation, smart grid solutions, renewable energy, and more. Visit etap.com for more information.

About ETAP Automation

ETAP Automation provides sales, support, and technical training of ETAP software and specializes in value-added power system engineering, consulting, analysis, and automation for the implementation of ETAP Real-Time Power Management System. Visit etapautomation.com for more information.

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The proposed standard requires participating companies to source a minimum of 25 per cent of their electricity demand from wind power. This level is set to strike a balance between an ambitious target and an achievable goal for progressive companies striving to make a tangible impact.

The development of the WindMade™ label has progressed swiftly since its introduction at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2011, with the standard for companies and organisations presented today. Work on the more multifaceted WindMade™ standard for products is scheduled to begin later this year.

“The initiative is backed by the wind power industry, and we believe that the label will build a bridge between consumers and companies committed to clean energy,” said Steve Sawyer, Chairman of the WindMade™ Board and Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council. ”We hope to see widespread participation in the public consultation and strongly encourage interested parties to review and comment on the standard.”

“I am extremely pleased to see how far WindMade has come since the presentation in Davos in January,” said Ditlev Engel, President and CEO, Vestas Wind Systems. “Vestas is very proud to be a member of this impressive group of WindMade’s founding partners and I look forward to the day in the near future when consumers can power change and choose products made with wind energy”.

The public consultation period was launched today at an event in New York City, which also saw the introduction of WindMade’s™ newly appointed CEO Henrik Kuffner. ”I firmly believe that today’s launch is the beginning of a movement that will make a real difference to investments in wind power around the world, and I am very excited to be given the opportunity to spearhead this effort” he said. ”On behalf of WindMade™, we would like to thank the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Wind Energy Foundation for hosting the official U.S. launch of WindMade in New York City today.”

The proposed WindMade™ standard was developed by a Technical Committee, consisting of experts from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), AWEA, LEGO, Climate Friendly, Gold Standard, and Vestas, with Öko-Institut and PricewaterhouseCoopers acting as advisors. In addition, the first draft of the standard has been reviewed by a Sounding Board, which is comprised of representatives from international companies and organisations including Walmart, 3Degrees, Better Place, Dong Energy and others.

“As one of the founding partners, WWF was deeply involved in developing the WindMade™ standard. We believe that the criteria as proposed today live up to the high standards necessary for the label to serve consumers’ desire to make tangible impact and boost clean renewables,” said Samantha Smith, Leader Global Climate and Energy Initiative, WWF.

“Market-driven solutions like WindMade will increase voluntary purchasing of renewable energy, and complement the national and state standards that create the market,” said Elizabeth Salerno, Chief Economist for the American Wind Energy Association, and a member of the Technical Committee for WindMade™.

Pioneered by Vestas Wind Systems, the WindMade™ initiative was founded as a cooperation between the GWEC, WWF, Vestas, LEGO, the UN Global Compact, PwC (as official Verification Partner), and Bloomberg (official Data Provider).

Following contributions from the public consultation, which will close on 15 August 2011, the final WindMade™ standard for companies is expected to be presented in September. This will mark the starting point for companies to officially begin applying for WindMade™ membership and to undergo the certification process. Details of product certification and labelling will follow later in the year.

For more information, please visit www.windmade.org.

Contact information

Henrik Kuffner, CEO, WindMade

+32 495 80 86 92, kuffner@windmade.org

Peter Kelley, VP Public Affairs, AWEA

+1 202 270 8831, pkelley@awea.org

Angelika Pullen, Communications Director, GWEC

+32 473 947 966, angelika.pullen@gwec.net

About WindMade

The WindMade label will be managed through a non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the adoption of renewable energy by improving corporations’ ability to communicate their wind energy investments to their stakeholders. WindMade will strive to achieve this by increasing transparency of corporate investments in wind energy, by educating citizens on the implications of using different energy sources, and by empowering consumers to favour companies who make a real contribution to delivering new wind energy.

About the founding partners

The Global Wind Energy Council

GWEC is the global wind industry trade association, providing a credible and representative forum for the entire wind energy sector at the international level. GWEC’s mission is to ensure that wind power establishes itself as one of the world’s leading energy sources, providing substantial environmental and economic benefits.

World Wildlife Fund

WWF is one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organisations. It is an independent foundation registered under Swiss law. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

United Nations Global Compact

Launched in 2000, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies around the world to align their strategies and operations with ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of broader UN goals. Through the development, implementation, and disclosure of responsible corporate policies and practices, business can help ensure that markets advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere. The Global Compact is not a regulatory body, but a voluntary leadership platform for dialogue and learning. With more than 8,900 signatories in over 135 countries, it is the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative.

The LEGO Group

Founded in 1932, the LEGO Group is one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers. LEGO® products are sold all over the globe. The LEGO Group is committed to supporting the improvement of issues that concern its stakeholders and has set ambitious renewable energy targets as part of its ‘Environment, Social and Governance’ agenda.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PwC is one of the world’s largest providers of assurance, tax, and business consulting services. Every day, 161,000 PwC people in 154 countries work hard to build strong relationships with others and understand the issues and aspirations that drive them. PwC measures success by an ability to create the value that clients, people and the wider investing public are looking for. PwC is the Official Verification Partner to WindMade.

Vestas Wind System

Every single day, Vestas wind turbines deliver clean energy that supports the prevention of climate change. Wind power from Vestas’ more than 40,000 wind turbines currently reduces carbon emissions by more than40 million tons of CO2 every year, while at the same time building energy security and independence. Vestas is the global market leader in the wind energy sector and operates in 65 countries with 30 years of experience as the only global pure-play wind power plant producer and industry pioneer. Vestas’ 20,000+employees are relentlessly committed to wind energy and WindMade is an excellent example of Vestas’ dedication to renewable energy globally.

Bloomberg

In 1981 Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Today’s Bloomberg builds on that foundation – everything Bloomberg does connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions. Bloomberg is the Official Data Provider to WindMade.

WOODSTOCK — Construction on the Spruce Mountain Wind Project is set to begin as early as June 20, according to the project’s developer. The project is expected to be finished and generating power by the end of the year.

Andy Novey, developer for Patriot Renewables of Quincy, Mass., said the group Friends of Spruce Mountain dropped its appeal on June 6. Novey said his firm and Friends of Spruce Mountain came to a settlement. The details are not public.

“It was a private agreement that we can’t discuss,” Novey said Monday.

On June 9, the project received a building permit, the last hurdle. On June 20 they hope to begin construction on the roads up to the building sites, he said, and they expect to be erecting the turbines by the fall. He called it a “tight frame.”

Novey said the site plan hasn’t been altered and will go forward as it was approved in October 2010. “There have been none to this point. Hopefully it will stay that way.”

The site plan calls for 10 towers capable of producing up to 20 megawatts total.

Patriot Renewables will pay the town of Woodstock $80,000 for conservation purposes, and another $20,000 per year for as long as the turbines are operating.

In February, Friends of Spruce Mountain appealed the Department of Environmental Protection permit to the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, which rejected the appeal 5-1. The group planned to bring the appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Friends of Spruce Mountain argued that the low-frequency sounds from the turbines could disrupt the sleep and the health of abutters, a disputed affliction called “wind turbine syndrome.”

The site plan permit has strict rules for wind noise, capping noise levels at 55 decibels during the day and 45 at night. The DEP order includes a provision requiring that Patriot Renewables collect data at permanently-established sites and to operate a toll-free complaint hot line where residents can report loud turbine noise.

The firm must collect data on the noise and submit it to the DEP. If the DEP finds they are exceeding noise limits, Patriot must reduce the noise levels of the turbines. Smith called it a “belt and suspenders approach” to turbine noise concerns.

The vice president of Friends of Spruce Mountain did not return requests for comment Monday evening.

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Today, Global Wind Day is marked across the world, celebrating the strong message that wind power works. The past three decades of technological development have seen continuous improvements in the relative cost efficiency of wind versus other renewable and conventional energy sources like hydrocarbons.

LM Wind Power is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of wind turbine blades and has pioneered many of those important and exciting innovations.  The company has created longer and longer blades increasing the ‘swept area’ of the rotor and capturing the wind more effectively. This new blade will be the longest composite blade structure in the world at 73.5 meters creating an impressive swept area with a rotor diameter of 150 meters.

LM Wind Power’s new wind turbine blade for offshore wind farms was developed by the company’s specialist engineers in Denmark.  This experienced team has produced more than 140,000 blades which are now installed and flying across the world. When the company began in 1978 the blades were five meters long which illustrates the speed and ambition of the whole industry and the constant appetite for improved technology at LM Wind Power. The company was the first to exceed the 60 meter limit and is now the first to put blades longer than 70 meters into production.

Vice President, Product Development at LM Wind Power, Jan Kristiansen is looking forward to being able to present the first prototype blade in Denmark already at the end of this year. “The size of these impressive structures has more than doubled over the past decade alone, and although this has of course demanded the development of new materials, design and technology along the way, the new 73.5 meter blade is built on our progressive accumulation of know-how.  This ensures that even though it is more than ten meters longer than our recent world record blade, it is still based on a proven concept.”

The LM 73.5P wind turbine blades will be installed on Alstom’s 6 MW wind turbines offshore, mainly in European waters, where the giant blades will travel at the speed of more than 320 km/h in order to generate green power equivalent to the yearly requirements of over 6000 European households.

“Speed to market is important in the fast-moving wind energy industry.  In order to make the best possible blade available to our customers with least delay, our product development and manufacturing engineers have to work very closely together – as one team. One example is the way our in-house mold experts have produced a special prototype mold with a transparent surface.  This allows for full-scale manufacturing trials where our engineers are able to follow the critical polyester infusion by visual inspection,” Jan Kristiansen explains.

LM Wind Power continues its steady technological development and is already in discussions with a number of Asian wind turbine manufacturers about making blades even longer than 80 meters – reaffirming that wind power works.

For further information, please contact:
Helle Larsen Andersen, Senior Manager Communication,
+45 51388369 hla@lmwindpower.com

LM Wind Power is the world’s largest independent wind turbine blade manufacturer with more than 140,000 blades produced since 1978, corresponding to 49 GW installed capacity that each year, helps save the world 83 million tons of CO2.  The company has production facilities in 12 locations in Europe, North America and Asia. In China alone, LM Wind Power produces blades in four large factories across the country.