California's green energy is growing quickly
with wind turbine growing the fastest.
Not exact matches
RW:
With the current interest in buying electric cars, plus more
wind turbines being built and
growing Chinese infrastructure, does this mean the fundamentals are falling into place for rising copper prices and copper company share values?
It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems,
with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to
grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis
wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.
One of America's fastest
growing professions,
wind turbine technician, attracts people
with a unique set of skills, as demonstrated by climber and composer Jessica Kilroy.
Underscoring
growing customer confidence in the valuable benefits Siemens Energy can provide
with its flexible, longer term
wind service agreements, the company has been awarded 10 - year
wind service agreements encompassing over 400 onshore
wind turbines in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
The average offshore
wind turbine in 2015 was 3.4 MW but
grew to 4.7 MW during 2016,
with capacity factors exceeding those of natural gas plants.
The
growing U.S.
wind market spurred new investment in
turbine and component manufacturing plants,
with enough new and planned facilities to create more than 4,700 new U.S. jobs.
The shortage has been caused by the increase in the level of demand for energy combined
with a
growing tendency to build
wind turbines, at the expense of other, more reliable, electricity sources.
Wind turbine technician is also one of America's two fastest
growing jobs, along
with solar installer, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Rural
turbines have dramatically changed the energy landscape in the Republican - dominated states of the Midwest and Great Plains,
with Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Kansas being the top
wind electricity generating states and
with the nation's fastest
growing occupation paying more than $ 50,000 a year being
wind turbine service technician.
The nation's
wind turbine manufacturing base has
grown with the impressive surge of
wind - generated electricity, but the expiration of the federal Production Tax Credit for
wind (PTC) at the end of 2012 threatens the industry
with factory closings and stunted growth.