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Since 2005, i believe there are some three dozen new factories which have opened or are opening, from blade manufacturing, through turbine assembly, to several dedicated tower rollers.  Vestas, Gamesa, Acciona, Suzlon, on and on.  Of course home-grown Clipper is employing thousands in their new factories/site workers.  Even nuclear supplier TECO Westinghouse has a new assembly facility in Texas to produce the 60hz DeWind turbines.

And that doesn't include the expansion of component suppliers, whose ramp-up is not calculated as yet.

hell, even Deutsche WindGuard has a north american presence, and is looking for qualified techs.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:43:23 PM EST
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And that doesn't include the ramp-up of the entire service industry, from several dozens of new cranes being built each year, to the entire technical operations industry being built (including at least a half dozen community colleges now with specific windpower training programs).  Not to mention the transport industry, to get the big things around, by ship and truck.  Did i forget to mention the hundreds of thousands of concrete truck cycles pouring the foundations?

Or the onsite construction workers?

What have i left out?  (Ohh, the lawyers and dealmakers.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:54:03 PM EST
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