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Vestas Plans Wind Production
Facility in Windsor
January 25, 2007
Vestas Americas in Portland,
Oregon, announced late last week that it is planning to build a wind
turbine production facility near Windsor in northern Colorado. The
Vestas parent company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is the
largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world. Last year it
supplied about 35% of the wind turbines (measured by capacity)
installed worldwide.
The production facility will be
located at the Great Western Industrial Park, which is next door to
the Kodak facility in Windsor. Vestas is currently negotiating with
the Upstate Colorado Economic Development group about services to
the facility. According to news reports, the new plant will support
400 jobs. For details, see the story that first appeared in the
January 19 online edition of the Northern
Colorado Business Report.
http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=84865
Earlier in the month, Vestas
Americas announced a major shipment of wind turbines for the Smokey
Hills Wind Farm in western Kansas. The wind farm is to be built by
ENEL North America, which is a subsidiary of the Italian utility
ENEL that is one of the largest wind power developers in the world.
The shipments are scheduled to arrive at the new wind farm, which
will have an initial rated capacity of 100 megawatts, in the fall of
2007. See the Vestas January 2 press release.
http://www.vestas.com/NR/rdonlyres/A76EC765-D7EF-454A-9B08-2C2AB8DF0832/1270/070102MFKUK01.pdf |
