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VESTAS Gets Largest North American Turbine Order Ever — Windsor and Pueblo Factories Heavily Involved

For Colorado and its workforce, the news is especially important, as all the blades for the order are to be manufactured at the Vestas Windsor facility outside of Fort Collins, and most of the towers will be made at its Pueblo facility.

22Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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VESTAS to Ramp Up Hiring Big Time in Coming Months

The manufacturer’s three Colorado factories are officially up and running, with more than than 1,000 people employed. Better still, hundreds more are expected to be hired in the next 12 to 18 months. Two upcoming job fairs and an employment website are where would-be job applicants should be looking.

18Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas Opens Engineering Facility in Louisville

Within a year, the company plans to employ 75 to 125 engineers, scientists and support staff at an estimated payroll of $8 million. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Mayor Chuck Sisk. “It is not just Louisville; it is the entire Boulder- Broomfield valley.”

9Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas Colorado Plants Buoyed by New Orders

The news in recent weeks as been very positive for the manufacturer, as multiple orders for its wind turbines have been signed, including the 250-megawatt Cedar Point wind project east of Denver which RES Americas sold to Enbridge late last month.

2Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Renewable Trust Initiative Breaks Ground at Gala Launch

With an ambitious goal of raising $350 billion in clean energy investments through employee 401(k) and IRA plans, The Renewable Energy Trust Initiative (TREI) officially launched into action last Thursday at the offices of Patton Boggs.

21Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas, Siemens Wind Bets at Risk on Cheap Gas,
Subsidy Loss

They’re betting that the U.S. will pass a law that requires utilities in every state to buy power from renewable resources. State support helped new wind farms match natural gas plant additions over the past two years, but absent a federal mandate, turbine factories, touted as job creators by President Obama, may sit idle.

28May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Good News for VESTAS —
Windsor Plant Resumes Production and the Parent Company Gets Largest Order — Ever!

The “Master Supply Agreement” calls for building, delivering and maintaining turbines capable of producing up to 1,500 megawatts of power in the next two years, with an additional option. Will Vestas Colorado plants help fulfill the order? Too early to tell says a spokesman.

28Apr2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Xcel Energy and RES Americas in Colorado
Wind Farm Deal

The companies reached agreement on a 20-year deal for Public Service Co. of Colorado to buy 252 megawatts of electricity from the Cedar Point wind farm that Broomfield-based RES Americas will begin building this summer and have operating next year.

3Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Castle Rock Welcomes Turbine Parts Manufacturer

The Swedish company “wanted a location between what [Vestas] has going in Pueblo and what they’re doing in Brighton,” according to Frank Gray of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council.

31Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Vestas Plants in Colorado “Going Live” Thanks
to Wisconsin Order

The deal for dozens of 1.8 MW-units is welcome news for one of the world’s largest turbine manufacturers, especially here in Colorado, where the Windsor plant has been offline in the first quarter because of fewer 2009 orders.

26Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Vestas Building On-Site Turbine to Showcase Technology

The turbine will serve as a show model for the Danish manufacturer because it is finding that potential U.S. buyers of wind turbines are more likely than their European counterparts to request site visits and the latest testing data.

10Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas Windsor Plant Gets First U.S. Order since 2008

The facility has been essentially idle since December when it halted production to enable retraining of employees on new manufacturing technology. That production stoppage is expected to run through this month. Vestas will build 33 wind turbines for the Granite Reliable Power Windpark in New Hampshire.

11Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Tax Credit Scoreboard for Colorado Cleantech Companies

The tax credits are going to a pair of Vestas plants in Brighton and Pueblo; Hexcel Corp. in Windsor; Abound Solar in Longmont, Advanced Energy Industries in Fort Collins; Denver-based Coolerado Corporation and ReflecTech in Arvada.

15Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas Furloughing 500 Workers at Windsor Plant

The company’s Chief Executive Ditlev Engel indicated back in October there would be a slowing in his company’s U.S. job growth because of the weak market here. Late yesterday Vestas said the furloughed workers would still be paid and retrained on other tasks, but turbine blade production is being put on hold.

8Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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German Solar Company Building
Denver Plant

“We see a huge market coming in the U.S.,” said Pierre-Pascal Urbon, the company’s chief financial officer. The new facility will be located on Havana Street in the Stapleton area, and the company said it expects to employ about 300 full-time workers once production ramps up.

27Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Pike Research Reports on U.S. Wind Turbine Growth

Power generated by wind in this country crossed the 25 GW mark last year with an addition of more than 8 GW from 2007 — the largest individual increase of any country in the world.

12Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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