Feb 27, 2012
WindTV: Michigan factories humming with wind power Latest video segment highlights how industry is tapping state’s manufacturing know-how
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WindTV: Michigan factories humming with wind power Latest video segment highlights how industry is tapping state’s manufacturing know-how
Wind power brings new-found income to local businesses
Rural Nebraska town gets 35 percent business up-tick Kimball is a small town at the western end of Nebraska and “very few people know we’re out here,” as Mayor James Schnell puts it. But a new resident has come to town—wind power—and it’s generating some real economic noise. Wind power’s economic impact on Kimball is featured on the latest installment of WindTV, the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) recently launched vehicle to highlight how wind works for America.
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WindTV: Oregon turbine training program creates opportunity
Tyrell Quantrell has found a promising career in the wind energy industry, and he found it right at home in the Pacific Northwest. Quantrell now works as a wind turbine technician, thanks to an exciting industry that with the right policies can keep expanding, as well as a local community college program developed as a result of that industry.
Perhaps most of all, of course, credit Quantrell’s own hard work. His story is captured in the latest installment of WindTV, the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) new vehicle to highlight how wind power works for America.
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Veterans Day edition of WindTV: Jobs for vets and energy security
WindTV's focus this week is a special Veterans Day edition including contributions from former U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark, now working in the wind energy industry, and Army Major Mindy Kimball, a Gulf veteran who tells how she powers her electric SmartCar with wind energy. Clark discusses how meaningful it is for returning Gulf veterans to find jobs making homegrown domestic energy here in the U.S. Kimball adds her thoughts on energy security, which led her to purchase an electric car and then to sign up for wind power through her local utility so that she could power it without fossil fuels.
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