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  It’s a known fact that wind power sites across the U.S. eventually will reach the end of their lifecycles. So now what? The industry is coming upon an age where owners and operators must repower these sites by leveraging existing infrastructure to help meet the growing national demand for power. With more than 75,000 turbines across 45 states, many approaching 15-20 years of operation, wind repowering— upgrading existing wind farms with newer, more efficient technologies to increase energy production and extend operational life—is no longer a niche consideration. It is a central pillar of the wind industry’s future. Our country’s renewable energy repowering strategy is essential to the nation’s future clean energy ambitions and its evolving power demands. In recent years, there has been a downturn in greenfield wind project development due to supply chain challenges, changes in tax laws, and limited, new interconnection opportunities. Repowering, as a supportive and sustaining me...

  May 26, 2026, New York is strong-arming 18 industrial-scale solar power plants into rural communities across the state despite strong opposition from locals.  Schuylerville farmer Alexandra Fasulo had just settled into the idyllic acreage she purchased in 2023 when Gov. Kathy Hochul’s bulldozers came roaring in, poised to thrash 1,800 acres of protected grassland to build a 100-megawatt-capacity solar energy complex in nearby Fort Edward, NY. 22 “We were like serfs coming before a king. It was so much worse than I ever imagined,” Schuylerville farmer Alexandra Fasulo told The Post .   22 The footprint of the massive, 1,800-acre Fort Edward solar power plant in upstate New York. Local feel helpless and infuriated as the state squashes any dissent on the massive, wildlife-killing green energy plant. Worried that chemical runoff and contamination may affect her farm, Fasulo attended a town meeting last fall to voice concerns to developers and state authorities. “We were li...

May 23, 2026   Takeaways by Bloomberg The Trump administration's halt to approvals for new onshore wind projects imperils $50 billion in wind investments and 150,000 jobs, according to a trade group. The Pentagon has stalled roughly 130 proposed wind projects in an approval process, which has stopped investments that would generate enough power to light 20 million US homes. The Defense Department's review process for wind farms is meant to ensure the projects don't interfere with military operations, but the power association alleges the department's actions amount to an across-the-board halt on projects.   About $50 billion in wind investments and 150,000 jobs are imperiled by the Trump administration’s effective halt to approvals for new onshore projects, a trade group said.   The Pentagon has bottled up roughly 130 proposed wind projects in an approval process that has stalled investments that would generate enough power to light 20 million US homes, according to a d...

The world is growing more power-hungry all the time, with more and larger devices, appliances, and vehicles hooking into the grid. It's a big part of what makes it difficult to adopt renewable power sources like solar panels on a large scale, especially compared to the monumental power output of a single next-generation nuclear reactor. Both solar panels and nuclear reactors may generate electricity, but it would take over 8.5 million solar panels receiving light around the clock to generate the same kind of output that a nuclear reactor is capable of.   While a nuclear power plant requires a hefty infrastructure investment to get up and running, a solar panel plant, despite being a renewable energy source, isn't exactly free to build . Building the enormous number of panels necessary to match a reactor's output, to say nothing of developing safe ways to store excess power and hook it into local electrical grids, unfortunately means that going fully solar simply isn't f...

Martha Muir in Penn Yan, New York   17 May, 2026   A boom in the construction of US wind and solar projects is under threat from a lack of labour and equipment and the removal of tax credits by a Trump administration hostile to renewable energy.   According to data from Cleanview, an energy research firm, solar capacity under construction has risen by 50 per cent since the start of 2025, while wind projects are up 60 per cent.   The boom is being driven by developers racing to take advantage of tax credits before they expire . President Donald Trump, who has long been opposed to solar and wind energy, gutted the incentives in his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”.   Solar and wind projects must begin construction by July 4 and prove they are building continuously to qualify for the tax credits — a process known as “safe harbouring” — crunching the timeframe developers thought they would have to get projects off the ground.   Under Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduct...