Vineyard Wind 1 was supposed to deliver its first power to the Massachusetts grid by December 31 – but it didn’t. Vineyard Wind 1 is a 50/50 joint venture between Avangrid and green investors Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners . On December 6, Avangrid CEO Pedro Azagra said that its “team has worked tremendously hard, through…

The world’s largest ultra-high-altitude wind farm came online on January 1 in Tibet, or what China now refers to as the Xizang Autonomous Region. The 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm is at an altitude of 4,650 meters (15,256 feet) in the Seni District. A wind farm built at 3,500 (11,483 feet) to 5,500 feet (18,045…

SAE International released the Technical Information Report (TIR) for the SAE J3400 standard covering the development and implementation of the Tesla-developed NACS (North American Charging Standard) connector to couple public and residential charging units to EVs made by any automaker. The organization said the SAE J3400 North American Charging Standard Electric Vehicle Coupler Technical Information…

Leviton partnered with AmpUp to redefine the EV charging experience for customers, offering safe, innovative and efficient charging in one solution, the companies said. As part of this new partnership, Leviton released the new EV Series Pro charging stations, including 48- and 80-Amp level 2 stations available with and without LCD screens. …

The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector – between the UK and Denmark – started commercial operations today. The new Viking Link electricity interconnector has a capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (GW) and stretches for 475 miles under land and sea. It joins the Bicker Fen substation in Lincolnshire with the Revsing substation in southern…

Pilot Travel Centers, General Motors and EVgo are opening the first 17 locations of their previously announced national electric vehicle fast charging network. Now available in 13 states, the network provides EV travelers access to the same amenities offered at existing Pilot and Flying J travel center locations. Many locations throughout the network offer a variety of…

Swedish startup Modvion has built the world’s tallest wooden wind turbine tower, and it’s now sending power to 400 homes in Sweden. The 2-megawatt (MW) wooden wind turbine, sited outside Skara, northeast of Gothenburg, was built for the electric utility Varberg Energi, and it’s just started providing power to Sweden’s grid. The world’s tallest wooden wind…

SunZia, a massive clean energy project in the US Southwest, has closed $11 billion non-recourse financing and launched full construction. Daniel Elkort, executive vice president at Pattern Energy, the project’s California-based developer, said about the milestone finance package: The size and scale of both the SunZia project and this multifaceted financing show that…

Here are the Top 3 stories about solar industry happenings that Electrek readers got most excited about in 2023. In an agrivoltaic study I reported on in March, UCLA engineers put a semi-transparent solar roof on a greenhouse, and some pretty cool things happened with the roof and the plants. It may look…

When two new Montana wind farms come online, the state will have more nameplate capacity in wind than in coal. Nameplate capacity is the maximum rated output in megawatts when a source of power operates in optimal conditions. According to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, Montana coal plants provided 1,631 megawatts (MW) of…