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Finding the Renewable Workforce: The Value of Ex-Military Hires
Clipper Windpower has found an invaluable training pool for renewable energy technicians and engineers: the military.
Aug. 24, 2010 — The demand for wind power is at an all-time high. Just about every year, the wind sets a new record, recently putting close to 10 GW a year online. Yet it isn’t enough. States continue to set higher and higher renewable portfolio standards (RPS). The problem is that there is already a shortage of qualified wind technicians, managers and general staff. <<Read more>>
Amir Mikhail: Wind Industry Engineering Leader
Mikhail’s career has centered around the wind power industry. Turbine designs created under his leadership helped grow Zond, the pioneering wind energy company, into the industry-leading position it now enjoys as part of GE Energy. More recently as senior vice president of engineering at Clipper Windpower, Mikhail plays a key role in building that company to its No. 2 position among U.S.-grown wind manufacturers.
Ex-Im Bank To Speed Financing of US Solar Exports
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has launched its new “Solar Express” product that the banks said will provide streamlined financing for U.S. exports to small solar-energy projects that could be approved in as few as 60 days. The details were announced by Bank officials during Earth Day visits to SolarWorld and Clipper Windpower in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
EDF Energies Nouvelles commissions two wind farms totalling in 85.5 MW of capacity
EDF Energies Nouvelles has recently commissioned its first wind farm in Mexico, the La Mata La Ventosa wind farm in the state of Oaxaca, southern Mexico. The wind farm has 67.5 MW of installed capacity, using 27 wind turbines with 2.5 MW of capacity each. The wind turbines were supplied by Clipper Windpower. The facility [...]
Turbine blades company gets backing from US – The Journal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)
THE firm set to build giant wind turbine blades on Tyneside has
secured more than pounds 125m of investment from a US backer. United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has paid pounds 126m for a 49.5% share
in Clipper Windpower, which has a base in Blyth, Northumberland. It comes after the renewables
New Clipper chief is to be flown in from US backer – The Daily Telegraph
THE chief executive of lossmaking renewables company Clipper Windpower is to leave his post to be replaced by an executive from its new US backer. Mauricio Quintana, who becomes new president and chief executive, was a director at United Technologies Corporation, a $68bn (£43bn) US group that took
Wind of change for shipyard’s future – The Journal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)
NORTH East law firm Swinburne & Jackson has completed negotiations
for a US-based firm that will see a former Tyneside shipyard transformed into a
manufacturing base for offshore wind turbine blades. Swinburne & Jackson negotiated the lease for the site for US- based Clipper
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Clipper reveals how 500 jobs will be built on steel ; US company hails Tyneside as ideal site – The Journal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)
THE River Tyne is set to return to life after Clipper revealed a plan
to create 500 jobs sending two turbines a week along the waterway. The Clipper Windpower Marine factory is to be built on the former Neptune
factory site now owned by Freddy Shepherd. Gordon Brown yesterday kick-started work on
New era dawns for North East ; 500 jobs open way for thousands more pounds 45m pay-day fuels rally championship bid But anger greets Corus crisis moves – The Journal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)
THE first Cabinet meeting ever to be held in the North East yesterday
provided a platform for the announcement of a major job boost for the region. Prime Minister Gordon Brown kick-started work on the Clipper Windpower
Marine factory that will produce the world’s largest wind turbines. It’s
BOOM TYNE ; TURBINE PLAN BRINGS WORK FOR THOUSANDS – Evening Chronicle (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)
THOUSANDS of jobs are coming to Tyneside with the birth of an
industrial revolution. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in Newcastle today to announce a deal that
will see the world’s largest wind turbine blades produced on the site of former
shipyards. American firm Clipper Windpower will make the
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