The folks at Southwest Windpower in Flagstaff, Arizona started their company in a small home.
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But developers REG Windpower said other aviation bodies, including the Ministry of Defence, have not objected.
Clipper Windpower has struggled to compete against big wind turbine makers like General Electric, Siemens and Vestas.
It also claimed the government was over-reliant on windpower as a solution to future energy needs in Wales.
Through this approach, IBM helped a Danish windpower company build and use a Big Data solution to analyze weather data.
Denmark, for example, number four on the list of worst polluters, has pledged to double the nation's windpower and to wean itself off fossil fuels by 2050.
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Denmark now gets almost 25% of its electricity from windpower, and this country of 5.5 million in habitants is planning to double that number to 50% by 2020.
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Germany has underwritten a 15-fold increase in windpower since 1990.
In this case, Walmart will buy the electricity it generates under a 15-year power purchase agreement with Foundation Windpower, a Silicon Valley company that installs large turbines for businesses.
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Today it is the windpower capital of the country.
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Ragnar Lofstedt, a Swedish academic based at the Centre for Environmental Strategy in Britain, estimates that even with subsidies, windpower is unlikely to replace more than 0.3% of nuclear's capacity by 2005.
Other investors are picking up on this too: Saxon Windpower, the company that wants to put up six turbines on Parham airfield, is backed by a venture capital fund based in the Bahamas.
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.
Electric vehicles may play a key role as well, as high capacity batteries could ultimately serve to provide regulating capacity, absorbing or supply power back to the grid to flatten out some of the intermittency associated with windpower.
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