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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: 2) by frojack on Thursday July 24 2014, @08:04AM
I find that an odd statement, especially because the article I Linked, from Siemens [siemens.com] was predominantly about the UK grid, and the difficulty of integrating Wind Power into the Grid, and that was the reason Siemens were pushing the development of fast-restart gas generation plants.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @03:09PM
Wrong. That was the STATED reason. Considerably higher profit margins with gas generation than wind power, and a stronger control of the gas generation market than wind power market in the EU is likely why Siemens is actually pushing for this. I used to work at Siemens.