Corporate Updates
Vestas To Lay Off More Than 2,300 Worldwide; U.S. Layoffs Could Follow
While the announced layoffs are primarily taking place in Europe and specifically Denmark, the firm said it is preparing for a potential slowdown in the United States in case the Production Tax Credit is not extended before it expires at the end of this year. That would directly impact Colorado workers.
12Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
TFG Radiant Increases Ownership in Ascent Solar
The latest buy will increase TFG Radiant’s ownership in the Thornton-based thin film solar module manufacturer to more than 41 percent. The transaction is expected to close within the next 90 days.
4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Real Goods Solar Completes Merger With Alteris
Real Goods recently offered net-revenue guidance for 2011 of $110 million, and said it expects $180 million of net revenue for 2012, excluding acquisitions. The company said it plans to centralize operations in Louisville.
20Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Boulder’s juwi Solar Inks 20-Year Power
Purchase Agreement
The deal is with the Salt River Project in Arizona for 19 megawatts of photovoltaic energy from a facility to be built in a Phoenix suburb. The plant will utilize approximately 90,000 photovoltaic modules mounted on a single-axis tracking system that follows the sun.
12Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Curtain Closing on Range Fuels? Feds Want Its Ethanol Plant in Georgia Liquidated
Bloomberg reports the Soperton, Ga., factory is to be liquidated after the Broomfield-based company defaulted on a federal loan and failed to produce cellulosic ethanol, a fuel made from wood chips that the plant was intended to produce.
5Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Community Solar Garden Developer Lands
Two New Projects
Clean Energy Collective was hired this fall to install a 500-kilowatt solar garden as part of an alternative-energy pilot project in Colorado Springs. It was also selected by the San Miguel Power Association to build a 1-megawatt solar farm near Telluride.
29Nov2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Key Appointments in Aurora
Merrick & Company has selected David G. Huelskamp to be the firm’s new president, effective in January. At Ecotech Institute, Kolby Chase has been hired as the school’s Director of Admissions. The career college will host its first graduation class in June of next year.
17Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas’ Brighton Blade Plant Gets First Order
The order is for 55-meter blades that are part of the V112-3.0 MW turbines — destined for a Vermont wind farm. The Denmark-based company operates three other Colorado factories — a blade facility in Windsor, a tower plant in Pueblo and a nacelle assembly factory in Brighton.
6Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Cedar Point Wind Project Completed Ahead
of Schedule
Broomfield-based Renewable Energy Systems Americas and Calgary-based Enbridge Inc., are celebrating the completion of the 250 megawatt (MW) Cedar Point Wind Project on the eastern plains of Colorado.
21Sep2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Boulder Wind Power Gets Capital Infusion From Manufacturer of Rare Earth Oxides
“Linking such an innovative wind energy technology with U.S. sourced rare earth production creates many potentially powerful synergies,” said NREL’s Director, Dan Arvizu. “It promises to strengthen the ability of the U.S. to manufacture wind turbines domestically and compete globally.”
14Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Energy Seeks PUC Approval of Low Cost
Wind Deal
David Eves, chief executive officer of Xcel’s subsidiary Public Service Company of Colorado, said the wind energy offer from NextEra was too good to pass-up. “This proposed purchase contains the lowest-cost wind energy we’ve seen, making it competitive with other energy sources.”
19Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas Lands 202 Megawatt Turbine Order
The deal with E.ON Climate & Renewables North America calls for 112 V100-1.8 MW turbines for an as yet undisclosed U.S.-based wind-energy project. Key to the order is the ability of this specific turbine model to capture lower wind speeds.
16Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ascent Solar Selling 20% Stake to Chinese Company
The Thornton-based manufacturer of thin-film solar modules has signed a long-term, strategic partnership agreement with China’sTFG Radiant Group — worth more than $275 million to start — that will help it ramp up existing FABs and improve its technology.
15Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued-
People Power for DG
It will take a lot of “People Power” to overcome the stranglehold on renewable energy progress in Colorado and much of the U.S., argues Ceal Smith of the San Luis Valley Renewables Community Alliance. She offers three actions you can take now to support point of use “rooftop” distributed generation.
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