wind turbines

Two family-run businesses are teaming up to build Nova Scotia’s largest wind farm, and have recently gained environmental approval and financial support from the province.

Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Nasdaq: VWS), the world's largest maker of wind turbines, has announced that it has received a 59-megawatt order from Exelon Wind, a division of Exelon Power with operations in eight states, for a project in eastern Michigan.

Arista Power (Nasdaq: ASPW), a Rochester, N.Y.-based producer of custom sustainable energy generation, management and distribution systems, is making waves in the industry, thanks to landing several large deals spanning the corporate sector and government.

Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) has selected two wind turbine manufacturers to provide turbines for its latest wind farm development in Southern

EDP Renewables (NYSE: EDPR), formerly Horizon Wind Energy, a developer and operator of wind farms across the United States, this week selected General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) to service its North American fleet of 402 1.5-megawatt GE-branded wind turbines, the most widely used utility-scale turbine technology in the world.

Pattern Energy Group LP and Samsung Renewable Energy have inked a supply contract with Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) that will create as many as 600 new jobs at the Ontario plants operated by the German turbine maker and CS Wind, which builds wind towers, the companies announced Monday.

Samsung Renewable Energy and Pattern Energy Group LP, a San Francisco-based wind power developer, on Monday announced the joint purchase of the Armow wind project in Kincardine, Onta

GE Energy, a division of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), has completed its $3.2 billion acquisition of a 90% stake in Converteam, the French electrical equipment and systems maker, after receiving the go-ahead from the US Department of Justice.

Chicago-based E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, a subsidiary of E.ON AG (Xetra: EOAN) of Germany, one of the world’s largest energy companies, this week announced it ordered 112 of Vestas' V100-1.8 MW turbines for an undisclosed American wind-energy project. The specific model of turbines is designed to provide maximum capture of wind at lower speeds.

The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR), along with partners Stark State College and the Stark County Port Authority, is constructing the United States' first Wind Energy Research and Development Center in Ohio.