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The American wind power industry is creating jobs and investment in 2013, building on the momentum of the industry’s strongest year ever, reports the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). In 2012, wind energy for the first time became the number one source of new U.S. electric power generation, providing some 42 percent of all new generating capacity, reports the AWEA.
American Wind Power Goes Back To Business, Creating U.S. Jobs
Wind Power | A view looking west at Eldorado Canyon from the nacelle of Siemens 2.3 MW, 80 meter wind turbine at NREL’s National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) in Boulder County, Colorado. | Photo by Dennis Schroeder | NREL
The Houston Chronicle reports, “Andrew Swift, director, Texas Wind Energy Institute and Texas Tech’s wind-degree program, believes two engineering disciplines are in highest demand in the wind-energy sector – mechanical and electrical.” (February 25, 2013, Houston Chronicle)
Projects that are helping the wind industry strengthen America’s manufacturing sector and rural communities include:
- Vestas Wind Systems A/V’s addition of more than 100 workers at its tower manufacturing plant in Pueblo, Colorado. (January 16, 2013, KOAA.com)
- EDF’s 300-megawatt Pleasant Valley Wind Farm in Mower County, Minnesota, “It is one of the largest wind farm developments in the state of Minnesota with advanced permitting and [is] ready to build,” RES Americas Vice President of Development Joe DeVito told the press. (January 7, 2013, Austin Daily Herald)
- The Prairie Breeze Wind Energy Center near Elgin in northern Nebraska, which could create 300 construction jobs. (January 4, 2013 Journal-Star)
- Geronimo Wind Energy’s Courtenay, N.D., wind farm, which could be sized between 100 and 200 megawatts and range from about 58 to 120 turbines. (January 7, 2013, Prairie Business)
We are encouraged to hear that the companies are re-hiring workers and putting Americans back to work. After investing $25 billion of private capital into the U.S. economy last year, the wind industry looks forward to driving investment into more local communities and supporting continued American manufacturing jobs. These stories are an indication that we’re off to a great start. –AWEA Interim CEO Rob Gramlich
By Amber Archangel
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