Thanks to a 30% federal tax credit, that works out as much the same as a combined-cycle gas-turbine plant but without the noise and fumes.
The company has one turbine manufacturing plant in Colorado and plans to build three more, plus a service and maintenance center.
It has but one turbine manufacturing plant, in Campbeltown, which has been in administration on three occasions in as many years.
Protesters living near to a planned wind turbine site at the Honda plant in Swindon say they will continue their fight against the development.
Simple math shows that a marginal gas or oil well has a power density at least 22 times that of a wind turbine while a nuclear power plant has a power density that is more than 8 times that of a solar photovoltaic facility.
The 600-megawatt Indiana plant will convert coal into turbine-ready gas while stripping out pollutants nitrogen and sulfur.
The damage to the plant is being repaired, turbine by turbine, with full power expected to be restored by next year.
Across the road is the SAB Miller PLC's "World of Beer" and Turbine Hall, previously an old power plant and now the headquarters of mining firm AngloGold Ashanti.
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Acciona Energia, Clipper Windpower and Siemens USA now operate wind manufacturing facilities in the state, and last month Culver's office announced that TPI Composites will open a plant in Iowa to build turbine blades for GE Energy.
The oil, which glows purplish when hot, flows to an adjacent power plant, where it boils water into steam that runs a turbine, and is pumped back to do it all over again.
Last month the company was ordered to re-plant 342 trees it had felled illegally in preparation for the proposed turbine.
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