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Vestas Picks Portland As Headquarters City

20 August 2010

Vestas, undoubtedly one of the biggest wind turbine companies in the world, is going to set up its North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Construction on what was once a warehouse for a local retailer is set to be complete by early 2012. The new Vestas U.S. headquarters is being designed and built with LEED Platinum [...]

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New York Harbor Preps For Wind Power

16 August 2010

Over the next three years, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are planning on the installation of five units of wind towers, each over 280 feet in height, operating in New York Harbor’s west side. The City of Bayonne in New Jersey also has developed extensive plans to install a massive wind [...]

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20% of Iowa’s Electricity Comes From Wind Power

10 August 2010

The state of Iowa has been tireless in their efforts to become more sustainable in the last five years, and now they have numbers to prove it. A press release from earlier this year says that up to 20% of Iowa’s electricity is produced by wind. The document is from the Iowa Policy Project. The organization’s [...]

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Vestas Wins California Wind Turbine Contract

22 July 2010

Major wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems has announced that they’ve won a contract which will deliver 190 turbine units of for a wind power project in the US state of California. The order is Vestas’ largest one for a single site and is for the Alta Wind Energy Center near Tehachapi, California. The [...]

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Google Signs Major Wind Power Contract

21 July 2010

Google made a big move this week to use more renewable energy when they signed a 20-year contract with an Iowa wind farm that will allow Google to purchase wind power at a set rate over the next two decades. The energy from the NextEra Energy Resources wind farm will be sufficient to power “several data [...]

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Construction Begins On Oahu Wind Farm

18 July 2010

Hawaii is joining the wind farm party. The Kahuku project, near the windy North Shore by Oahu, will generate enough electricity to power nearly about 7,700 homes a year. “To be continually dependent on imported oil or energy is a dead end for Hawaii and we can be a model for the world,” said Governor Linda [...]

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Video: President Iowa Promotes Wind Energy for Economic Growth

Added on 27 April 2010

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President Obama was gave a speech today on the importance of green energy opportunities as a crucial component for economic growth in rural America and described the current unemployment situation as a “silent crisis.”

Wind power was at the forefront of the speech as he delivered it at the Siemens Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Plant in Fort Madison, Iowa.

“One study suggests that if we pursue our full potential for wind energy, and everything else goes right, wind could generate as much as 20% of America’s electricity 20 years from now — that’s right 20%,” Obama stated.

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