The company is continuing to pursue contracts in the offshore oil and gas industries - and also in wind power generation from offshore sites.

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Jore believes they can leverage the CORE motor technology in a wind turbine power generation system at Boulder Wind Power in Colorado for residential and commercial deployments.

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The little white dots you see on the ground as you are on final approach to Oakland Airport are megawatts of wind power generation in Altamont Pass.

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Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.

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These alternatives are highly variable, with power generation going in and and out with cloud cover and wind gusts.

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The relentless pursuit of technical improvements has brought solar and wind power prices down enough to compete with conventional energy-generation technologies in many markets.

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In their talking points will be AWEA's other top two priorities: establishment of national requirements on power generation from renewable sources and ensuring that wind power has prominent role in the emerging area of global warming legislation.

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One example he points to is the Bonneville Power Authority in the Pacific Northwest, which he said could increase the wind share of its generation portfolio from 20% to 40% within several years.

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Although more than half the states have passed mandates to increase renewable energy use (which often results in new wind farms and local "clean" generation), utilities still need to get that power to consumers.

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Although Japanese firms are leaders in green technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal, these sources account for only 1% of all power generation.

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For many of these states, offshore wind is the most abundant indigenous energy source and the only commercial option for renewable power generation, especially in southern states where land-based resources become scarcer with decreasing latitude.

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