The first application of their technology is in the OPE market, but the company sees other applications as well, such as in the wind energy sector with wind turbines.
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Expect to hear more about this from the First Minister, among others, when the offshore wind sector gathers in Aberdeen this week.
And there is no question that when it comes to protecting seniors on Medicare, when it comes to protecting businesses, small and large, that are part of our renewable energy sector, especially wind energy, that this President has been making very strong policy arguments, and that at a substantive level as well as at a level of support from the American people, he's winning those arguments.
Hydroelectricity is the largest renewable sector, but both wind and solar power have been growing at record rates in Italy in the last two years.
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She said 2010 had also been a "tremendous year" for the renewable power sector, with more wind power developments in the planning and construction pipeline.
One reason the wind power sector has grown so rapidly in Texas is that the state's oil industry has decades of experience building big projects like wind farms.
With the prospect of such levels of investments flowing into the UK's energy sector, it seems clear that the nuclear industry will have to compete with the oil and gas industry, with the wind power sector and with renewable fuels companies, not just to attract electricity customers, but also to attract skilled staff such as engineers and scientists.
The renewable energy sector said the latest figures show wind and hydro developments have displaced 8.36 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Pernick and Wilder chart this migration over the past half decade or so by tracking several trends, including public and private sector investment, installed solar and wind capacity and similar signs of scale.
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"The UK has incredible offshore wind resources and this sector will play a key part in improving security of supply and decarbonising our electricity generating system, " said a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
Comparing the taxpayer costs per job for wind vs. the oil and gas sector, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Robert Bryce estimates the former to be 15 times more.
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More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector, jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit.
The prospect is for that situation to worsen as state and local budget assistance from the federal stimulus efforts wind down, while the woes in the real estate sector have returned now that the homebuyer rebates have expired.
We can reverse this progress, like the other side has talked about, or we can build on it. (Applause.) Now, unlike my opponent, I'm not going to let the oil companies write our energy plan. (Applause.) I'm not going to get rid of the wind energy tax credit that is helping to spur this incredibly dynamic sector of our economy.
We need renewables -- wind, tidal -- but these are not useable in the transport sector.
How do we -- when we read these articles in the paper that China is just exploding in terms of wind turbine manufacturing and solar panel manufacturing -- how do we rebuild our manufacturing sector with a manufacturing policy, combined with an energy policy that gets us there?
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Priorities should include enhancing the public sector's role in delivering renewable energy projects and increasing employment in growing sectors such as offshore wind.
With additional resources, in areas like advanced manufacturing of wind turbines and solar panels, for instance, we can help turn good ideas into good private sector jobs.
The Chinese government is spending vast sums of money to subsidize deployment of solar panels and wind turbines, and as a result China appears to be winning the race to dominate this growing sector.
Boone Pickens, now touting wind energy as a fix for electricity generation, favors natural gas as a way to alleviate the transportation sector's dependence on oil.
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