Wind Industry Focus of Seminar Businesses Discuss New Opportunities
Bangor Daily News › January 13, 2010
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PORTLAND - The key to success for Maine's budding wind power industry might be ensuring that as much of the industry as possible is home-grown.
The delicate cost-benefit equation of ultra-expensive upfront construction costs must be balanced by revenue in the form of megawatts of electricity trickling from turbines to homes across New England and elsewhere. To tip the scales toward success, one strategy is to build the machinery and equipment - tower parts, turbine blades, durable housing for the generators - as close as possible to the wind farms.See the full content of this document
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Wind Industry Focus of Seminar Businesses Discuss New Opportunities
The problem is Maine is not known as a major producer of wind power components, though a concerted effort is under way to change that.
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