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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

[wind.alert] March Wind.Alert from Windpower Monthly

WIND.ALERT FOR MARCH 2005 FROM WINDPOWER MONTHLY

As you requested, here is a taste of the top news stories and
special opinion pieces just published by Windpower Monthly.
The text-bites below are quick summaries of a small selection
of articles in the latest issue of Windpower Monthly and on
our web site.

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A SELECTION OF NEWS HEADLINES FROM OUR TOP STORIES

* America up against wind turbine shortage as demand outstrips
 industry's willingness to meet it
* Welcome turning point in United States for transmission rules
 and connection of wind power
* British Renewables Obligation effective but unnecessarily
 costly says National Audit Office
* Top bosses at GE Energy depart as wind unit absorbed in
 energy division

For abstracts of these selected stories, see:
http://www.windpower-monthly.com/currentabstracts

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FOCUS COLUMN -- ONLINE-ONLY

* Wind market status 2005 -- Global wind power generating
capacity grew by about 7900 MW in 2004, 300 MW less than
added a year earlier. The grand end-2004 total is 47,400 MW,
give or take a megawatt or two. The March issue of Windpower
Monthly once again contains our annual round-up of the status of
the world's wind energy markets. Despite a dip last year in the
annual rate of new installations, wind power's compound annual
growth rate for the past five years remains at an impressive...
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OPINION COLUMN --  FROM THE MAGAZINE

* Seen from on high
Putting together our special status issue each winter is a
monumental task. It involves all the correspondents (currently
19) and is enough to drive editors to drink. The main message
is that 2005 is going to be a cracking good year -- at least for
land based development. Offshore, the tenor of our reporting is
not as upbeat. There are plenty of grandiose plans, but
precious little construction activity on most of them. What
seems to be happening is a long drawn out waiting game.
Investors in ...
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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."