| Forecast: Wind Energy |
| Jobs and Opportunity Creation |
Manufacturing wind turbines and their components offers major employment opportunities, often building on existing engineering skills and raw materials. In rural areas, wind energy can bring investment and jobs to isolated communities; hosting wind turbines provides farmers with a steady income while allowing them to continue grazing or cropping their land. In the developing world, stand-alone wind turbines offer potential electricity supply to millions of people separated from a grid connection.
The impressive expansion rate of the global wind energy market has attracted major players from the conventional fossil fuel, power and finance sectors. Wind turbines now regularly cross the globe, delivering to construction projects as far away as Japan and Australia. In the future, as the industry expands, hardware will be made locally, creating new industries and jobs. |
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The result has been a growing list of nations wanting to join the wind power boom. In Asia, for example, the Chinese government’s initial target for wind power generation is to reach 5,000 MW by 2010. By 2020, the government aims for as much as 30,000 MW produced by wind energy alone.
Source: windpowerworks.com |
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