Wind Power Firm to Expand Production in Wisconsin

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Danish firm Avanti Wind, has been doing business in the United States for many years, making service lifts used by technicians for inspecting and repairing wind turbines.

Avanti Wind has recently moved its production of aluminum ladders from Germany and China to Wisconsin. Even though the pace of wind development has slowed across the country Kent Pedersen, Avanti’s U.S. general manager stated we have done quite well in expanding our customer base in North America, and we’ve continued to grow in 2010 compared to 2009 and we expect that to continue next year.”

The local expansion of Avanti is a small example of creating jobs in which local economic development official’s hope will be a growth sector for Wisconsin. 

Manufacturing is one of Wisconsin’s biggest industries and professionals in the wind industry are looking towards the state to help facilitate the industries growth. “It’s a market we look at and we see growth, we see jobs and we see capital investment,” said Jim Paetsch, business development specialist with the Milwaukee 7 regional economic development group, during the Wisconsin Solar Decade conference.

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World’s Largest Wind Farm Opens in the UK

On Thursday the world’s largest off shore wind farm opened off the British coast consisting of 100 wind turbines capable of supplying enough electricity for 200,000 homes a year.

The farm is located off the coast of Kent in Southern England and is part of a key renewable energy initiative spearheaded by the previous British government.

Vattenfall a Swedish based company will operate the farm after investing around $1.38 billion into the project.

Waters off the coast of the United Kingdom are an alluring place for wind farm operators because of their constant ocean winds. An offshore turbine located around the United Kingdom has the capability to produce 50-percent more power than a similar one elsewhere in Europe.

Europe is seeing a boom in offshore wind energy with the construction of 16 farms currently underway. The Thanet farm covers approximately 13.5 square miles which is roughly the equivalent to 4,000 football fields. The nearest turbine is located 7.4 miles from the coast of Margate.

Along with a renewable, efficient power supply Vattenfall stated that a rise in tourism is expected to bring more tourists into the region eager to see the site of the windmills in the distance.

Impressive as the Thanet Farm is it will not remain the largest windfarm for long, in late 2012 or 2013 the so-called London Array will start to generate electricity just north of London. Owners of the Array farm predict it to be the world’s first 1 gigawatt offshore windfarm.

Four Wind Turbines Spin in the Wind Outside SCA Tissue in Neenah, Photo Courtesy of Marketplace Magazine

Marketplace Magazine Features Local Companies Adopting Wind Energy

Several New North companies have adopted wind energy as an energy alternative and are seeing lower utility rates as a result. Marketplace Magazine, a magazine publication out of Oshkosh, WI recently featured several Wisconsin Wind Works member companies new wind energy operations in Northeast Wisconsin.

The article highlights Orion Energy Systems of Manitowoc, SCA Tissue in Neenah and Bergstrom Automotive of Northeast Wisconsin who have all purchased light commercial scale wind turbines from fellow Wisconsin Wind Works member Renewegy, Inc of Oshkosh. These light commercial scale turbines help the companies reduce energy bills and support green practices.

Other Northeast Wisconsin organizations and companies have also begun adopting wind energy as an alternative including East Town Mall in Green Bay, the article explains.

Read the full Marketplace Magazine article on wind energy, written by Lee Marie Reinsch, at http://www.marketplacemagazine.com/content/588_1.php.

Learn more about Wind Energy and how your company can start participating and supplying to the Wind Supply Chain in Wisconsin and the Midwest at the Wisconsin Wind Works Wind Energy Symposium on October 13^th in Milwaukee, WI at Frontier Airlines Center.

Registration and program information available here: http://www.coalescemarketing.com/wind_symposium/email.htm

Baker Tilly Announced as Gold Lunch Sponsor for Fall Wind Energy Symposium!

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP is sponsoring the Wisconsin Wind Works Fall Energy Symposium as the Gold Lunch Sponsor. The symposium, to be held on October 13th at Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, WI, will feature information on the wind energy supply chain and provide educational insight from wind experts on 1st and 2nd tier wind production and aftermarket operations and maintenance of wind turbines.

Baker Tilly, a full-service accounting and advisory firm specializes in providing deal structuring, tax credit and funding placement and works with many renewable energy suppliers to reach energy development goals. Find out more about Baker Tilly at Bakertilly.com

As part of sponsorship, Baker Tilly will be speaking during lunch and introducing the premier lunch speakers: Ingeteam and Vestas Nacelles Americas.

Wisconsin Wind Works is proud to have Baker Tilly part of Wind Energy Symposium!

Register for the event today to hear Baker Tilly speak at http://www.coalescemarketing.com/wind_symposium/email.htm

Wisconsin Wind Works’ Fall Wind Energy Symposium Featured in Windpower Engineering Magazine

Wisconsin Wind Works is featured in a write up by Windpower Engineering magazine for their August online issue for the Fall Wind Energy Symposium to be held on October 13^th, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Frontier Airlines Center. Windpower Engineering is a noteable publication in the wind industry featuring stories about wind energy design, maintenance, engineering, regulations and policies and more. Windpower Engineering provides up to date wind energy information in each magainze issue and online and is followed by wind professionals around the country.

The Fall Wind Energy Symposium will feature Wisconsin supply chain for wind and will host wind experts from around the Midwest and Wisconsin to cover topics on 1^st tier and 2^nd tier wind and aftermarket maintenance.

Vestas Nacelles Americas and new North American Wind entrant Ingeteam (INDAR Division) to present as premier speakers at Wind Works Symposium. Register now to reserve your spot to see these and more expert wind producers and suppliers on October 13^th at the Symposium.

Read the event information write up on Windpower Engineering below or at this link: http://www.windpowerengineering.com/news/one-day-symposium-at-wisconsin-wind-works/ and make sure to register for the October 13^th event at: http://www.coalescemarketing.com/wind_symposium/index.htm

Follow Symposium details on Twitter at ‘TheNewNorth’ and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3096644

Vestas to Speak at Wisconsin Wind Works Fall Energy Symposium on Oct 13th!
Vestas Nacelles America has confirmed to speak at the Wisconsin Wind Works Fall Energy Symposium on October 13th, 2010 at Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Vestas, a leading wind turbine producer in the world, will offer an overview of wind sourcing to date and lessons learned during the companies over 25 years in the wind industry.

"Over the past 25 years we [Vestas] have succeeded in improving the generator effect of our wind turbines by a factor of 100 – and we [Vestas] constantly strive to improve.

We [Vestas] have installed more than 41,000 wind turbines in 65 countries on five continents. We [Vestas] install an average of one wind turbine every three hours, twenty-four hours a day. In fact, our [Vestas'] wind turbines generate more than 60 million MWh of energy per year, or enough electricity to supply millions of households." Source: Vestas' Web site "Track Records and Results".

Check out more information on Vestas' great work in wind industry around the world on their Web site at http://www.vestas.com/en/.

Make sure to register today to see Vestas and other Wind Industry Experts speak at the Fall Wind Energy Symposium at http://www.coalescemarketing.com/wind_symposium/email.htm.

Companies Expanision into Wind Energy Highlighted

Wisconsin Wind Works, targeted growth initiative of New North, Inc, has seen record success since its beginning in 2008. From eight companies within the Supply Chain Directory at its start to nearly 300 companies participating and over 160 actively serving the wind energy market in the Wisconsin Wind Works Supply chain, Wisconsin Wind Works has proved the strong logic and the potential capacity of wind energy in Wisconsin.

In a recent article in the Sunday August 15th edition of the Green Bay Press Gazette, Wisconsin Wind Works history and local companies wind involvement was spotlighted. The article “Companies expand to accommodate wind energy” highlighted two Green Bay, Wisconsin companies within the Wisconsin Wind Works Directory, Synchrotek, Inc. and Lindquist Machine Corporation, and featured Vorpahl Fire & Safety, a Green Bay, Wisconsin company that provides protective gear designed for workers in the wind energy industry. The article focused on something businesses in Wisconsin already know: Wind energy has huge, future potential for business development in Wisconsin.

More and more companies become part of Wisconsin Wind Works each day, proving collaboration around suppliers and vendors in the wind energy market can bring success and support to Wisconsin companies and Wisconsin’s economy.

Access the complete article here: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100815/GPG03/8150590/Wisconsin-companies-expand-to-accommodate-wind-energy

Read more about Wisconsin Wind Works and access the growing Supply Chain Directory at www.thenewnorth.com/wisconsinwindworks.