I have no figures for the US, but i'm aware that nearly a dozen, perhaps more, community colleges have opened new training courses for the various jobs involved in servicing and operating windparks. There are turbine assembly plants going into buildings vacant since the end of the steel industry. New blade facilities are being built on the order of several a year. One can conjecture that soon the numbers will add up to something significant for the US.
Just to throw something positive on the table. Skennah Kowa
With current market growth, we must be close to 100,000. In places like Bremerhaven, or near the border with Denmark, the presence of the industry is rather more than obvious (and I'm not talking about the windfarms themselves, but rather all the heavy industry activity they generate). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Right, currently over 90,000 jobs. Skennah Kowa
What has struck me with many Germany players in the industry, both on the development and industrial side, is that these are fairly new companies, started by rather young guys (few gals, sorry) - in effect, you have a whole new generation of industrial entrepreneurs, and quite a few of them are hitting the big leagues now. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
