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Enbridge Inc., which used to control Canadian oil exports to the U.S., has become the largest gas distributor in Ontario and invested in wind farms.

For example, China Huadian Corporation could soon purchase private equity firm Terra Firma's wind farm interests for around US$ 500 million.

Following the successful completion of tests, renewable energy business Orsted's Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm is fully up and running and can generate its full capacity of 573 megawatts.

Earlier this month, Dong Energy announced it had been awarded a contract to construct the world's largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea Project Two, off the east coast of England.

Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British electricity provider.

A Pew Research Center poll from October found 83 % of conservative Republicans favor more solar installations, and 75 % favor more wind farms.

The wind farm, located north of Jamestown, is operated by French renewable energy firm Neoen.

Hywind Scotland, the world's first floating wind farm, has started to send electricity to the Scottish grid.

Meanwhile Shell is leveraging its experience building giant things in the ocean to develop offshore wind farms, widely seen as wind power's next big thing.

The final turbine for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm has been installed and commercial operations are set to commence by the end of this year.

It invested in developing wind farms, only to pull back from the sector after deciding wind was a waste because the average wind farm delivered lower margins than the average deepwater oil well.

Norway's Statoil is investing in offshore wind farms, leveraging its expertise building offshore oil rigs, and investing in research into capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

The 10 year agreement will see Microsoft get 100 percent of the energy produced by an onshore wind farm.

Though Democrats have historically been viewed as the strongest supporters of renewable energy, utility - scale wind farms and solar installations are found throughout the nation — including in Republican - leaning states like Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Dakota — and enjoy bipartisan support among Americans.

Beyond developing the wind farms, Shell intends to buy and sell the power they produce.

The agreement relates to energy produced by a portion of the Thunder Ranch wind farm in Oklahoma, which is expected to commence operations by the end of this year.

Construction has begun on a wind farm that will supply the power required to operate a Facebook data center in Nebraska.

The deal is for 86 megawatts of wind power from the Karankawa Wind Farm in Bee and San Patricio counties in Texas.

Authorities in South Australia said Thursday that Tesla Powerpacks had been fully put in place and were connected to the Hornsdale Wind Farm.

The Water Corporation is set to purchase the entire renewable energy output from Verve Energy's Mumbida Wind Farm and Greenough River Solar Farm to offset the energy requirements of its Southern Seawater Desalination Plant.

The trade group also noted that many wind farms are churning out power in traditional red states such as Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas.

• Ardian made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Tolve Windfarm Holdings, an owner of three wind farms in Italy.

Today, there are 13 solar plants, four wind farms and six geothermal plants online, generating about 3,500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 573,000 homes.

When building wind farms, it's common to hire local contractors to pour concrete foundations, lay wiring and build access roads.

Breaking down the annual figures from trade body WindEurope, onshore capacity increased by 12.5 GW and offshore grew by 3.1 GW, while new wind farm installations were 20 percent higher than in 2016.

Canada's largest wind farm entered service in 2009, one of many facilities that cropped up as the province looked to replace its dirty coal fleet.

TransAlta's Wolfe Island wind farm, near Kingston, is a product of the earlier stage in Ontario's green revolution.

In terms of new investments in future wind farms, projects totalling 11.5 GW reached final investment decision.

«Dudgeon offshore wind farm is part of Statoil's strategy of gradually supplementing our oil and gas portfolio with profitable renewable energy,» Irene Rummelhoff, Statoil's executive vice president for New Energy Solutions, said in a statement.

The business said that Amazon Wind Farm Texas would add over 1 million megawatt hours of clean energy to the grid annually.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) is to install and commission a 39 MW (megawatt) wind farm in Vietnam.

Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.

Buffett has unabashedly said that without subsidies wind farms don't make sense for investing.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy company MidAmerican Energy says it owns the most wind farms of any of its investor - owned and regulated U.S. utility peers.

Last October, for instance, Amazon announced that its biggest wind farm to date was operational.

When it comes to centralized solar, as well as wind farms, Berkshire Hathaway Energy has been a leader.

In that way, Google could also act as a lever for U.S. funding for the Lake Turkana wind farm.

Called The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, the wind farm is under construction across 40,000 acres in Kenya between Lake Turkana and the South Horr Township.

Google is investing potentially tens of millions of dollars into the largest wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa.

Drawdown makes sure to empower ordinary human beings with actions each of us can contribute, even if we aren't specialized in offshore wind farms or solar storage technology.

But this latest wind farm will be massive.

The country needs both more grid - tied power generation, like this wind farm, as well as off - grid power generation like home solar panels.

This is likely the way that Google would invest in the Kenyan wind farm.

The wind farm is expected to cost close to $ 1 billion, and is being billed as the largest private investment in Kenyan history.

After investing close to $ 2 billion into solar and wind farms, mostly across the U.S., Google is now taking that strategy to Africa.

That applies to the Kenyan wind farm.

And it also leads into Google's interest in energy in Africa, like this potential wind farm deal and its investment in the South African solar panel farm.

So yes, solar and wind farm backers usually make money.

His Iowa - based unit now runs several power companies in the United States, Canada and Britain, as well as natural gas pipelines and solar and wind farms.

Through Ecomagination, GE also launched a concept called the Digital Wind Farm, which says it can boost a wind farm's energy production by 20 %.