The Center for American Progress reports
While the politics of fracking has taken hold of election-year energy discussions in Colorado, the wind power industry is quietly surging. On Friday Vesta Wind Systems announced it was hiring 800 new workers, part of plans to fill 1,500 jobs this year in Colorado, after receiving orders for 370 turbines over the last few weeks. The jobs will be full-time, high-skilled jobs primarily in the manufacturing of blades and towers.
"We have received U.S. orders of 740 MW in the last month alone, so our North American factories are very busy, as are factories overseas," Vestas spokesman Adam Serchuk told ThinkProgress. "As far as I can see this will be the case at least through the end of 2015."
At the end of June, Vestas, the world's biggest wind turbine manufacturer with its U.S. headquarters in Portland, Oregon, announced orders for 450 megawatts worth of wind turbines for two U.S. wind farms. Totaling 225 machines, the farms will be in New Mexico and Kansas and scheduled for completion by the end of 2015. In early July the company received another order for 166 megawatts of wind turbines for a Minnesota wind farm. There was also one more order for 124 megawatts for a wind farm in North Dakota.
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Vestas has four factories in Colorado and will employ 2,800 people in the state by the end of the year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22 2014, @10:33PM
> wattsupwiththat.com
That site has destroyed their own credibility over the years. Whatever their analysis, you have a better chance of getting the truth if you just assume they are wrong.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday July 22 2014, @10:42PM
Which is why I posted the link to the actual study, unless of course you think Nature has also destroyed their credibility....
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 23 2014, @09:31AM
> Which is why I posted the link to the actual study, unless of course you
> think Nature has also destroyed their credibility....
I'm not enough of an expert to evaluate the study (all those unknown unknowns).
But I am enough of an expert to know that wattsupwiththat is more than just naive, they are aggressively ignorant.