Pioneering spirit lives on in US wind sector

摘要

The US is one of the world's largest wind markets with a Huge untapped potential, yet a major share of the technology used by US firms originates in Europe. However, the as-yet limited success of US wind technology is not for want of a pioneering spirit or innovative ideas. In one of its brochures of the early 1990s, US firm Kenetech Windpower reprinted an enthusiastic quote from The Wall Street Journal about its advanced, lightweight wind-turbine design.