RENEW

Renewable Energy New England, Inc., is a non-profit association uniting the renewable energy industry and environmental interest groups whose mission involves coordinating the ideas and resources of its members with the goal of promoting and increasing sustainable renewable energy in New England.

RENEW Urges DEEP to Replace Retiring Fossil Fuel Plants with Renewables

March 9, 2012 By

RENEW and the Conservation Law Foundation jointly filed comments with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) on its draft 2012 Integrated Resource Plan. In our comments we urge DEEP in its final draft to better protect ratepayer interests and the environment by recognizing that obsolescence and the market are rendering much of [...]

Independent Expert Panel Finds Wind Turbines Pose No Health Risk

January 18, 2012 By

Following the release of a report by an independent expert panel that was tasked by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) to review potential health concerns related to wind turbines, Renewable Energy New England’s Executive Director, Francis Pullaro, remarked, “The report discredits common criticism about wind [...]

Vestas and First Wind in 139 MW Wind Turbine Order

November 16, 2011 By

Vestas has received orders from First Wind, both companies are RENEW members, for 77 of its V100-1.8 MW turbines for two wind projects in the U.S. including the 34.2 MW Bull Hill facility in Hancock County, Maine. The contracts for both projects include the delivery and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a [...]

Support the American Renewable Energy PTC Extension Act of 2011

November 11, 2011 By

Help extend the wind industry’s top policy driver, the federal production tax credit (PTC), for four years. Encourage your representative to cosponsor H.R. 3077, The American Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011. America needs homegrown energy resources to power the nation and with our economy struggling, we’re in dire need of American [...]

Expansion of Renewable Energy Procurements Equals Savings

November 9, 2011 By

RENEW urged the Massachusetts General Court’s Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy to raise utility procurements of renewable energy pursuant to the Green Communities Act of 2008 from a minimum of 3 percent to at least 9 percent of utility demand by 2016 in order to meet the requirements of Massachusetts’ Renewable Portfolio Standard [...]

Calendar

AWEA WINDPOWER 2012, June 3-6, Atlanta, Georgia.

AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit – New England, September 5-6, Portland, Maine.