Yet over the past year the U.S. solar and wind companies have struggled.
Wind energy companies say they need longer time frames to negotiate deals to sell the power they generate.
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Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans want to wind both companies down, but have not specified any remaining role for government.
The fund, Impax New Energy Investors II, targets EU renewable energy projects, such as wind and solar companies, which expect to have positive cashflows within a year.
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The Scottish government said the centre would allow offshore wind developers and supply chain companies to test "cutting edge" wind technology before its commercial deployment.
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Hofmeister, and BP America President Robert Malone mentioned their companies' wind energy projects in their testimony.
The 57-year-old's assets include 43 wind and solar energy companies and 98 properties.
Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.
Because the wind blows inconsistently, power companies would have to turn fossil-fuel plants on when windmills fall still.
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The organization has made investments in both wind and geothermal energy equipment companies.
Defense companies have a wind at their back: the jobs they create, and the congressional support that goes with them.
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Credit Suisse and UBS published reports recently highlighting that fiscally-fit Germany and its industrial export-driven companies are likely to wind up winners amid the turmoil in Europe.
While traditional energy companies focus on large wind farms of 100 megawatts and up, OwnEnergy focuses on thesmaller community wind market, with projects less than 100 megawatts.
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Companies may use coal, wind, natural gas or even nuclear power to create electricity.
On top of that, the government decided to provide generous incentives to companies or people who built wind-turbines or installed solar panels.
And so we put forward a range of programs that provided credits and grants to startup companies in areas like creating wind turbines, solar panels.
Companies like Smarter Fuel in Wind Gap, Penn.
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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.
In other words, VCs may ultimately wind-up holding a large number of companies at inflated valuations.
New partnerships between Portuguese and American companies are leading the way in wind power.
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When Ralls purchased the four Oregon windfarm companies, there was no operating wind energy business at the sites.
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ABNAMRO, is that they do not require companies to disclose the amount needed to wind up their pension plans.
Companies like Danotek Motion Technologies, a wind turbine maker based in Canton, Michigan, has 100% local manufacturing and assembly operations.
Made in America renewable energy such as wind is highly attractive to U.S. companies for whom managing energy costs is a high priority.
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There is an expectation that prices will come down as turbines become cheaper and bigger companies throw their buying power into developing wind farms.
It might seem odd that at a time when Deutsche wants to wind down its industrial holdings it is buying up companies with such gusto.
The money was meant to be as safe as houses but these people have watched their companies go bust, the pension schemes wind up and their future plans evaporate.
With the real possibility that the policy-driven demand for wind turbines would dry up in any given year, companies were understandably wary of investing in large manufacturing facilities in the United States.
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