WindPower 2011 - Colorado's Wind Industry
Stop by booth No. 745 at WindPower 2011 in Anaheim, CA to meet economic development and cleantech organizations throughout Colorado and learn more about locating your wind-energy company in the state.
Wind energy in Colorado
Definition - Colorado's wind industry includes research, development, and manufacturing of technologies used to create energy from wind, and the deployment (construction and maintenance) of wind technology projects.
Workforce - Currently, an estimated 4,200 jobs exist in Colorado's wind sector (5 percent of the U.S. wind jobs) and is anticipated to increase to 6,000 jobs with a 30 percent Renewable Energy Standard.
Major companies - Vestas, REpower USA, Siemens Energy, juwi, RES-Americas, Clipper Windpower, American Zephyr Corporation, and Boulder Wind Power.
Wind Industry Products and Technologies - Manufacturing includes wind turbine development, components, such as blades, gearboxes, rotors, drive trains, and towers. Wind sensing radars, foundation materials, blade coatings, and inverters are key technologies.
- Colorado is a natural leader in the wind industry due to its ideal location in the nation’s wind tunnel and its world-class intellectual resources.
- Wind is Colorado's most advanced renewable energy sector providing six percent of the state’s power and 4,200 jobs in 2010.
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Colorado ranks 12th in the country based on installed wind power.
