Maine

SunEdison to Sell 333 MW of Wind to Terra Nova Renewable Partners

Submitted by aburr on Wed, 2016-01-06 15:43

SunEdison agreed to sell 333 MW of wind-power assets to Terra Nova Renewable Partners for $209 million. The two acquired projects are the 185-MW Bingham wind farm and 148-MW Oakfield wind farm, both located in Maine. Construction on Oakfield Wind was completed fall 2015 and it is now online and operating as the largest wind project in New England.

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Financing your energy-efficient, passive-house construction on a slim budget.

Net zero construction can be a cost effective investment even when compared to code-compliant buildings.
Byline: 

Naomi C.O. Beal

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The Clean Power Plan's largest obstacle is how its cost is distributed disproportionately among the states.

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Byline: 

David Bellman

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New England’s proposed capacity market reform would force generators to ‘Be There or Else.’

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Byline: 

Bruce W. Radford

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Life in the Transco Age

The competitive transmission genie is out of the bottle.

FERC Orders 890 and 1000 have opened the doors to independent transcos, heralding an era of innovation to solve reliability and capacity problems.
Byline: 

Elliot Roseman, Ken Collison, and Kiran Kumaraswamy

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Putting a Price on Carbon

How EPA can establish a U.S. GHG Program for the Electricity Sector.

With the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards expected in June 2014, many states are considering their own approaches to provide flexibility in meeting compliance requirements. Experience in North America to date provides policy guidance.
Byline: 

David P. Littell

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Climate policy heats up after the Great Recession.

GHG rules are coming soon. What happens next will depend on how states react.
Byline: 

Michael T. Burr, Editor-in-Chief

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