Acciona Builds Wind Turbine Production Plant In Iowa (100+ new jobs)

[jpak]

http://www.nawindpower.com/naw/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.704

Acciona Windpower, a wholly owned subsidiary of Acciona Energy, will develop its first wind turbine production plant in the U.S. in Iowa.

According to the company, the new facility is expected to provide more than 100 new jobs and produce approximately 250 wind turbines in 2008 - a figure that is expected to rise over the next few years. Construction of the new plant will begin shortly and is scheduled for completion at the end of this year.

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[Eclipsenow]

1. It's a start

I love wind... high ERoEI, plentiful, clean.... and if we have a large enough national or continental wide grid, it might even supply higher than previously expected capacity loads... at least in Europe.

"The output of some renewable technologies, such as wind, wave, solar and even some CHP, is naturally subject to fluctuation and, for some renewable technologies, unpredictability relative to the more traditional generation technologies. Based on recent analyses of the incidence and variation of wind speed, the expected intermittency of the national wind portfolio would not appear to pose a technical ceiling on the amount of wind generation that may be accommodated and adequately managed."

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2007/1/28/183633/609