Lackawanna / Madrid / Boulder / States Windsor / Tehachapi / Washington / Little Rock / Carpinteria / New York / Howard / /
Company
General Electric / Acciona / Blyth / Sharyland Utilities L.P. / TX Corp. / Carver / Wisconsin Public Power Inc. / Gamesa Energy USA LLC / Babcock & Brown / the STAR / Shell WindEnergy Inc. / Germanischer Lloyd WindEnergie GmbH / Vestas / Mesa Power LP / Siemens / Mitsubishi / North American Electric Reliability Corporation / Renewable Energy / Nordex / T. Boone Pickens / National Renewable Energy Laboratory / Clipper IEA Wind Figure 6 Knight / Green Power Partners / Sandia National Laboratories / Northern Power Systems / Invenergy / New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. / LM Glasfiber / /
Continent
Europe / North America / /
Country
Canada / United Kingdom / China / Denmark / Germany / United States / Spain / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Business Partnership / Company Expansion / Reorganization / /
Facility
National Renewable Energy Laboratory / Risoe National Laboratory / Virginia Polytechnic Institute / State University Stability Wind Tunnel / Laboratory Accreditation / Wind Energy Institute of Canada’s North Cape / NREL’s National Wind Technology Center / /
IndustryTerm
manufacturing facility / increased local manufacturing / extreme-event test site / heavy equipment / wind energy capacity / wind turbine manufacturing market / utility-scale wind technologies / manufacturing facilities / transportation costs / annual energy production / power electronics / steel production site / large-scale land-based technology / energy / real estate / energy capture / data acquisition systems / wind energy trade / local electric utilities / annual energy yield / steel mill / electricity cost / wind developer / test site / test safety systems / farm applications / little new infrastructure / oil developer / electricity demand / excess electricity / manufacturing / wind energy market / wind electric systems / power products / regulatory public utilities / wind-generated electricity / electricity customers / energy zones / retail electricity / wind turbine bearing technology / energy technology / wind technology / energy sector development / energy development / control algorithms / wind energy / fiberglass blades / energy financing / wind systems / energy capacity / blade manufacturing / wind energy industry / electricity sector / large wind systems / public utilities / energy resource / clean energy technologies / electricity / wind turbine systems / wind energy development / manufacturing jobs / energy certificates / electricity generation / wind turbine manufacturing facility / control systems / part-time manufacturing jobs / energy systems / distributed generation technologies / net electricity / wind energy developments / clean energy production / manufacturing plants / Wind energy projects / wind energy research / /
MarketIndex
Ardour Global XL / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Erie / /
Organization
Small Wind Certification Council / U.S. Department of Energy / UK’s One NorthEast Regional Development Agency / Windpower / GE Energy / and Risoe National Laboratory / Polytechnic Institute / The U.S. government / American Wind Energy Association / American Association of Laboratory Accreditation / Centre of Excellence for offshore Wind / Energy Information Administration / Electric Reliability Council of Texas / International Electrotechnical Commission / Texas Public Utility Commission / American Association for Laboratory Accreditation / Federal Energy Regulatory Commission / Wind Energy Institute of Canada / Environmental Protection Agency / /
Position
President / /
ProvinceOrState
Minnesota / Maine / New York / New Mexico / District of Columbia / Oklahoma / California / Colorado / Texas / Wisconsin / Illinois / South Dakota / North Carolina / Iowa / Massachusetts / Arkansas / /
PublishedMedium
West Branch / Popular Science / /
Region
West Texas / southern California / /
Technology
wind turbine bearing technology / energy technology / utility-scale wind technologies / currently developing protocols / control algorithms / wind technology / 5.2 Distributed wind technology / clean energy technologies / distributed generation technologies / large-scale land-based technology / /
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