Wind Energy

Portland General Electric produced gigawatt of wind energy on a single day earlier this year, after the company acquired the renewable resource from an eastern Montana wind farm.

The federal government postponed a floating offshore wind auction off the coast of Southern Oregon. Many still see the potential, but the state must first tackle a combination of issues that led to the postponement.

Avangrid’s National Training Center in Sherman County, Oregon, was built this summer and just worked with its first set of technicians.

At least one company is no longer interested in bidding on a chance to develop a floating offshore wind project off the Southern Oregon coast, and others may also have backed out.

The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians filed a lawsuit claiming the federal government failed to consider the environmental, cultural and economic impacts of the potential of floating offshore wind.

The federal government has published the details of an offshore wind auction. Companies are bidding on who will get to deploy the first floating wind turbines off the coast of Southern Oregon.

The announcement follows a federal environmental assessment that found the sites would not pose a threat.

Hundreds of thousands of birds and bats die each year from hitting wind turbines. Now Oregon State University researchers are looking to reduce those collisions with a simple paint scheme.

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, finalized its environmental assessment for two areas off the Oregon Coast and is moving closer to a lease auction.

Coos County voters will get a chance to weigh in on whether or not commissioners should actively oppose offshore wind development along the Southern Oregon Coast.