Danish renewable energy company Ørsted has acquired the 298MW Haystack Wind project in Wayne County, Nebraska, for an undisclosed price, from an unknown seller. Ørsted has also broken ground on the new wind farm in Nebraska, having taken the final investment decision. The Haystack wind farm will expand the presence of the Danish energy company […]
CropX acquisition of CropMetrics : CropX, a soil sensing and agricultural analytics company, has acquired CropMetrics, a Nebraska-based cloud-based, precision-irrigation tools provider, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is said to enable partners and customers of both CropMetrics and CropX access to advanced farm management analytics, in-soil data, and decision-support tools. Commenting on the CropX acquisition […]
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA) has revealed winning of a construction contract for the 300MW Thunderhead Wind Energy Center (Thunderhead Wind Project) in Nebraska, US from Invenergy. The Thunderhead wind farm is being developed by Invenergy in the Antelope and Wheeler counties. Work on the Nebraska wind farm began in November 2019 with completion expected […]
Charles Schwab acquisition of TD Ameritrade: Charles Schwab, a California-based bank and stock brokerage firm, has signed an all-stock deal valued at around $26 billion to acquire TD Ameritrade, a securities brokerage services provider based in Nebraska. TD Ameritrade offers investing services to nearly 12 million client accounts totaling around $1.3 trillion in assets, and […]
The Netherlands-based Avansya has started production at its new $50 million fermentation facility in Blair, Nebraska of EverSweet – a non-artificial, zero-calorie stevia sweetener. The Avansya fermentation facility will produce sweet-tasting molecules like Reb M and Reb D, the ingredients to make EverSweet. The stevia sweetener factory is expected to provide food and beverage producers […]
The 184MW Lockett Wind farm in Wilbarger, Texas, has kicked off its commercial operations, the project developer Lincoln Clean Energy has announced. Annual renewable power generated by the wind farm will be in excess of 700,000MWh, which will be sufficient to meet the electricity needs of 70,000 U.S. homes. With Lockett Wind farm coming online, […]
Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE), the US onshore subsidiary of Danish energy giant Ørsted, has issued the final Notice to proceed on the 230MW Plum Creek wind farm in Nebraska, as per the latest US wind industry news. The notice follows the final investment decision taken on the Wayne County wind farm in Nebraska by Ørsted’s […]
Insurance acquisition news : Kuvare US said that its affiliate – Guaranty Income Life Insurance has signed a deal to acquire Lincoln Benefit Life and its affiliates (LBL) from RL LP, a Bermuda limited partnership, for an undisclosed price, as per the latest insurance industry news. RL LP is managed by its general partner, RL […]
Wind industry news : EDF Renewables North America has acquired the 300MW Milligan 1 Wind Project in Nebraska from York Nebraska Wind Partners, a partnership made of Aksamit Resource Management and York Capital Management, for an undisclosed price. The new wind farm in Nebraska, which is currently in the development stage, is expected to begin […]