Now, GE wants to replicate this success in the emerging offshore wind market.
In contrast to First Trust, the PowerShares fund is more weighted towards the US, which is the largest wind market by installed capacity.
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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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Skykon chief executive Jesper Ohlenschlaeger said Scotland was rapidly becoming Europe's "most positive" renewable wind power market.
They project that the failure to renew the wind production tax credit, which is set to expire on December 31, could cause the wind turbine market to contract by 80 percent, putting tens of thousands of jobs in jeopardy.
To put the scale in perspective, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2010 was about 1.79 MW, up from 1.74 MW in 2009 and 1.66 MW in 2008, according to the 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report.
Explosive growth of more than 40% this year--3, 400 megawatts of new generation is expected--could make the U.S. the world's largest wind-power market, a new report shows.
They say that the current arrangements mean that energy companies continue to make money even when there is a surplus of wind and the market price is negative.
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India is the fifth-largest market for wind turbines in the world, with more than 16 gigawatts installed.
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As August starts to wind down, the market remains focused on the potential for more monetary easing from the Federal Open Market Committee, several traders said.
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But as soon as people in the market get wind that a big trade is under way, they adjust their prices to take advantage of it.
China now manufactures more solar cells than any nation in the world, and recently surpassed the United States as the largest market for wind turbines in 2009.
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The market for wind power has been buffeted by low electricity demand, low natural gas prices (which make wind power comparatively more expensive) and a tough financing environment.
For investors looking to capitalize on a booming global market for wind energy, the First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy Index Fund ( FAN) and the PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio ( PWND) offer a wide range of globally diversified stocks in the industry.
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Mr Salmond said the huge market for offshore wind beyond 2020 was underlined by the new carbon emissions target.
The Department of Energy has officially declared it wants 20 percent of the energy market comprised of wind by 2030.
It is making substantial investments in a renewable energy, and is now the largest solar, wind, nuclear and hydropower market.
The company has a deal with Linux purveyor Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ) to develop Linux for the embedded market, using Wind River tools, middleware and services.
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Montgomery lobbied Scott designers for a new line of bikes targeted at triathletes. (These bikes are more aerodynamic--with tear-shaped tubes instead of round ones--because, unlike cycling racers, triathletes are prohibited from drafting, or riding single file to beat wind resistance.) The market is tiny, but triathletes are visible and voluble.
The market is bending to wind, unstoppable but ephemeral, in your face but changeable.
The trend will affect next season, too: Many of the one-and-done free agents will wind up right back on the market next winter, pumping up supply and depressing salaries.
Wind is certainly not a competitive free market source of energy, or a charity we can continue to afford.
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Taking a new drug, medical device, or wind or solar technology from conception to market requires time and sizable sums of money.
Katana Summit LLC, a Nebraska-based manufacturer of wind-turbine towers is another prospective free market failure.
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China already dominates global market share for electric batters, wind turbines, and solar panels, and is rapidly boosting its capacity to innovate and produce next-generation clean energy technologies.
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To the contrary, those unfortunates who wind up on the wrong side of a market correction often see their net worth wiped out in a devastatingly short period.
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Fewer wind farms would be built, eliminating the market-distorting glut.
Overall, China views promotion of green sectors as sound industrial policy: it aims to be the world market leader in solar panels, wind turbines, fuel-efficient cars, and other clean energy industries.
Earlier optimism was in line with a brief rally in GPS shares until news of another 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Japan knocked the wind out of a U.S. stock market rally.
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