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Leah Tracy leaves a piece of herself behind at BGSU College of Musical Arts graduate composes anthem for Women’s Chorus By Bob Cunningham ’18 As Leah Tracy prepares to leave her home for the last four years, she is leaving a piece of herself at Bowling Green State University. In Fall 2018, Tracy was approached by Dr. Emily Pence Brown, assistant professor of music education, and officers of the Women’s Chorus with the idea of writing an anthem that demonstrated strength and power. The Men’s Chorus long ago adopted Edvard Grieg’s “Brothers, Sing On!” and has been sun...

By Jessica Shankleman and William Mathis (Bloomberg) — GE Renewable Energy will create as many as 750 new jobs in northeast England with a new factory that will make hundreds of giant blades destined for wind turbines in the North Sea. The new facility, located in Teesside, is set to open and begin production in 2023, the company said in a statement. The GE announcement was made on the same day the U.K. government confirmed plans to invest 95 million pounds ($132 million) to create two dedicated offshore wind ports in Teesside and on the Humber, an estuary also on the U.K.’s northeast co...

Oil majors outbid green energy firms to build offshore UK windfarms By William Mathis and Laura Hurst on 2/8/2021 click to enlarge (Bloomberg) --Oil majors agreed to pay a hefty premium to develop the next generation of major British offshore wind farms after BP Plc and Total SE won contracts in an auction ahead of many of the utilities that have dominated the space until now. The Crown Estate auctioned seabed rights that will allow about 8 gigawatts of new wind farms, enough to power more than 7 million homes. With oil majors taking a majority of the sites, it...

Alabama’s problematic COVID-19 vaccine program leads to a rise of vaccine tourism Updated Jan 27, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 The first COVID-19 vaccines given in central Alabama at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. The vaccine rollout in Alabama has been criticized for being too slow and unorganized. The state ranks near dead last in the U.S. when it comes to the distribution rate of the vaccine. (Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com).Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com Facebook Share Her husband, William, then called up a friend of his who lives in Pascagoula, Mississippi. “He’s 87 years old and he to...

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA and Siemens Energy AG plan to spend 120 million euros ($146 million) to figure out how to generate hydrogen from wind farms in the middle of the sea. The companies aim to build a prototype with one of Siemens Gamesa’s new wind turbines that are the largest on the market with blades that stretch 222 meters (728 feet), roughly the length of two soccer pitches. It’s the latest effort by some of Europe’s biggest clean energy companies to get an edge in the growing market to produce hydrogen from renewable energy. Clean-bu...