enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, has acquired the Bobcat Bluff Wind Project from Element Power US, LLC. Financial terms were not disclosed. The project, which spans approximately 14,000 contiguous acres, is located approximately 20 miles south of Wichita Falls in Archer County, Texas. enXco intends to deploy up to 150 MW of GE 1.5 sle turbines. Construction is expected [...]

Catch the Wind Ltd. (TSX-V: CTW), a supplier of Vindicator® Optical Control Systems (OCS), has granted options to its management and directors under its annual compensation policy. 100,000 stock options were issued to Dr. Jo Major, Jr., Chairman and Interim CEO. 50,000 stock options were issued to each of Daniel Lacroix, VP of Design and Operations, William Fetzer, VP of Business [...]

Catch the Wind Ltd. (TSX-V: CTW), a provider of laser-based wind sensor products and technology, has appointed John Green as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Frederick Belen as Vice President of Technology and Product Line Management. Green has been supporting Catch the Wind as a financial and operational consultant since early September, 2011. With over 20 years of executive experience, [...]

Capital Power LP, the legal entity that directly and indirectly holds substantially all of Capital Power Corporation’s (TSX: CPX) assets, and Samsung Renewable Energy Inc., and Pattern Renewable Holdings Canada ULC have entered into a limited partnership for the development, construction and operation of a 270 megawatt (MW) wind power project to be known as K2 Wind Ontario [...]

Greengate Power Corporation and Vestas-Canadian Wind Technology, Inc. have signed a turbine supply and long-term service and maintenance agreements for Greengate Power’s  300 MW Blackspring Ridge I Wind Project. Greengate is expecting to begin construction on Blackspring Ridge I in 2012, with a target commercial operation date of 2013. Upon completion, Blackspring Ridge I is [...]

The Government of Canada announced that Invenergy, LLC’s Raleigh Wind Energy Centre has been qualified for the ecoENERGY for Renewable Power program and will receive up to $24 million over ten years. The Raleigh Wind Energy Centre Project, developed, owned and operated by Invenergy LLC, consists of 52 wind turbines and is expected to produce enough energy per year to power [...]

Catch the Wind Ltd. (TSX-V: CTW), a provider of feed-forward, intelligent turbine performance improvement systems, has appointed Susan Nickey and Dr. Jo Major, Jr. to its board of directors. Nickey was most recently CFO of Acciona Energy North America Corporation, a subsidiary of Acciona S.A. Prior to joining Acciona, Nickey served as Managing Director, Investment Banking at Mesirow [...]

Invenergy Wind LLC announced today that it has closed the acquisition of Des Moulins wind energy project in Quebec from wind developer 3Ci. The Des Moulins project is located in the municipalities of Kinnear’s Mills, St-Jean-de-Brebeuf, and Thetford Mines, and is expected to begin commercial operation in 2013.  It has a 20-year power supply contract with Hydro-Quebec. Once [...]

Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. (EIFH) (TSX: ENF) and Enbridge Income Fund (EIF) said it has received a proposal from Enbridge Inc. (TSX/NYSE:ENB) to transfer three renewable energy assets, Ontario Wind, Sarnia Solar and Talbot Wind energy projects, to the fund for an aggregate price of $1.3 billion, to be paid in part by the issuance of additional ordinary trust units of EIF [...]

First Wind Holdings, LLC has sold a minority interest (49%) in its wind energy projects in the Northeast U.S. to Northeast Wind, a joint venture Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. (TSX: AQN) and Emera Inc. (TSX: EMA) First Wind has a 370 Megawatt (MW) portfolio of wind energy projects in the Northeast U.S. including five operating projects and two projects near operation. These [...]

AXEA Capital Corp. (TSX-V: XEA.H) today updated its progress of the previously announced qualifying transaction (QT) with Two-West Wind and Solar Inc. Under the proposed QT, AXEA and Two-West will combine their businesses by means of a triangular amalgamation, resulting the shareholders of Two-West receiving 12,000,000 AXEA shares at a deemed price of $0.25 per share for a deemed [...]

Shear Wind Inc. (TSX-V: SWX) has commissioned 62.1 MW Glen Dhu Wind Energy LP project on March 31, 2011, as per the requirements of the EcoENERGY Renewable Power program. Under the Contribution Agreement between Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Glen Dhu dated July 22, 2010, Glen Dhu will receive an incentive payment of one cent per kWh under the program. The agreement extends [...]