Under the National Offshore Wind Strategy, the U.S. Department of Energy wants to have 10, 000 megawatts of offshore wind generating capacity by 2020 and 54, 000 by 2030.
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Competitor GE Wind Energy, a unit of General Electric, ranked number one in wind turbines sales in the U.S. in 2009, according to a recent report from the American Wind Energy Association.
That could set in motion months of additional litigation that could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
More wind capacity was installed than natural gas capacity last year in the U.S. Wind outpaced coal by 2X.
No one is more aware of this than Lewis Hay, chief executive of NextEra Energy, the largest wind owner in the U.S. by far.
There are ample wind resources in the U.S. that could replace some of the oil imports, but not enough eagerness needed to harvest the wind for electricity.
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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This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators tech-speak for evolutionary turbine technology that will improve efficiency, reliability and grid connection capabilities.
"Their design and technology was better suited for our wind resources in the U.S. Midwest and 10% more efficient than that of competing providers, " says DanMar's founder, Dan Juhl, who has followed up with repeat orders.
That's more wind capacity added in the U.S. in two years than exists worldwide.
The deals were largely project financing, notably in wind energy projects in the U.S. and resource projects in Central and South America.
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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On its Facebook page, the weather service posted a video of the wind and snow whipping a U.S. flag outside its Amarillo office.
The presence of compelling offshore-wind resources close to major U.S. coastal cities has attracted attention from municipal planners and decision makers in New York City.
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Thanks to that push, the Energy Information Administration estimated that the industry would set a record for total wind power installations in the U.S., potentially topping 12, 000 megawatts of installed capacity.
Wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy source for electricity generation in the U.S., and DOE estimates that 20 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S. could come from wind power by 2030.
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U.K. wind turbines produce energy at about 21% of installed capacity under good conditions.
It was estimated in 2008 that to meet the U.K. wind-power goal by 2020 would require building one new turbine every day for the next twelve years.
The stakes are higher this time: Over the past decade wind component manufacturers have set up shop in the U.S. to make turbines, blades and other parts for the massive machines near where wind farms are being built.
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It currently has around 68 gigawatts of wind power while the No. 2 U.S. has about 46 gigawatts.
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He said the U.S. should wind down its quantitative easing program.
If Washington continues to ignore this growing economic imperative, the U.S. will remain behind in clean energy investment and will wind up importing the vast majority of the clean energy products needed to satisfy U.S. markets.
Yet over the past year the U.S. solar and wind companies have struggled.
Many green energy advocates have exaggerated the capacity of wind power to make a significant impact on U.S. electrical needs.
The eastern mountains don't face the entire expanse of dunes, so the wind cuts the Sossusvlei valley into a "U" shape.
Yet, over the past year, the rapid growth in the U.S. solar and wind industries has stalled and investment fallen sharply.
Instead, Porges says, the U.S. probably will wind up keeping a closer eye on vaccine makers and building a bigger stockpile of vaccine.
After saving the industry, the U.S. government might wind up choking off its growth, says Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the non-profit Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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To do that it's been expanding into other countries on the renewables ticket, establishing wind farms in Germany, France and the U.S. So far this year, Iberdrola has acquired Community Energy in the United States, two wind farms in Britain, and it has signed a tentative agreement to build a 1, 000 megawatt wind farm in northern China.
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