The Puerto Rico Planning Board has signed off on the lease of some 10,000 acres of land in Santa Isabel where San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group will build the island’s first wind farm, the agency announced Thursday.
More than 70 companies, association and trade groups involved in developing renewable energy projects took part in a weekend workshop sponsored by the Energy Affairs Administration to discuss the benefits attainable through the government’s Green Energy Fund.
Epps Shipping Company, a Liberian corporation doing business in Carolina, is facing a $700,000 federal fine for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and lying to the U.S. Coast Guard regarding an incident dating to November 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.