The En + team of advisers put together a plan aimed at cutting exposure to U.S.
turbines suppliers such as General Electric and replacing them gradually with European firms, the person familiar with En + preparations said.
Not exact matches
Even when foreign companies
such as General Electric or Suzlon
supply the
turbines as much as 70 percent of the components are made in China, everything except for bearings and electrical controls.
The study finds that the growing need for a secure energy
supply is driving power users to invest in distributed generation, using technologies
such as small engines or
turbines, fuel cells or photovoltaic systems.
Creating jobs: Wind
turbine manufacturing companies have recently opened facilities in Iowa (Clipper Windpower), Minnesota (Suzlon), and Pennsylvania (Gamesa), and wind
turbine orders are creating jobs all the way down the
supply chain, sometimes in areas that do not have a large wind resource,
such as Louisiana.
The first is that floating can quickly make the most of hard - won lessons learned in conventional offshore wind — in areas
such as technology development,
turbine scale - up, project management and
supply chain streamlining.
Many factors impact a wind
turbine's
supply chain,
such as the worldwide demand for steel and other commodities, availability of equipment large enough to manufacture and transport the large components, and fluctuating foreign exchange rates.
Ask your energy
supplier about switching to green power,
such as solar, geothermal and wind
turbines.