Us Wind Power Market:showing Muscle In The Crisis

摘要

The US wind power market has put on a breathtaking turn of speed in the last few years. And now, the incentives have been improved and the supply chain strengthened.rnOnce again the good news came from Pennsylvania. At a press conference the Environment Minister John Hanger calmed critical questioners: "We have scrapped only what had to be scrapped, but we haven't touched the programmes for renewable energy. This was also the Governor's wish." The worldwide financial and economic crisis is hardly likely to pass by the wind power industry in the USA -after all the birthplace of this affliction -without leaving a scratch, but Americans arernnotorious optimists. Associations and the industry are saying that wind power will remain a boom sector. Take Clipper: the decreasing willingness to supply credit for wind farms has already led to skid marks at the American manufacturer Clipper in the first quarter of 2009 - and they have reduced their staff by 90 employees, which is almost 25 % of their core workforce. Clipper's CEO Doug Pertz still stays calm, however: "The future prospects remain strong, especially in the USA."