05 Jun '12, 3pm

Bringing Wind to the Southeast

Bringing Wind to the Southeast

North and South Carolina have at least 30 wind-related manufacturing plants, including a major turbine factory in Greenville, S.C., and fiberglass factories in Shelby and Lexington, N.C. Florida boasts another 14 such facilities, while Arkansas has nine — five in business and four in development — that are forecast to employ 2,900 people once they come online. Another 34 plants are located in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, where some 1,200 to 3,000 jobs are directly or indirectly supported by the wind industry. Yet just a trickle of megawatts is online in the Southeast region. Of the 12 states nationwide that have installed less than 1 MW of wind power capacity, 10 are south of the Mason-Dixon Line. The reason for a lack of development in the Southeast is clear: a lack of wind resources. The average wind speed in most states in the region is 4 to 5 meters per se...

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