GE Wind Blade Tour Pulls Into Iowa as a Symbol of Potential Job Creation If ... MarketWatch (press release)

28.04.10

Multi-state wind blade tour rolled into Iowa today, bringing with it the opportunity to create thousands of manufacturing jobs across the United States if Congress works to enact policy that supports the development on renewable energy sources. The tour is showcasing one of GE's 131-foot advanced technology wind turbine blades that is serving as a traveling petition signed by the public. The blade will cover 2,436 miles and travel through nine states during the 28-day tour.

"The renewable energy industry in the U.S. can be a job creation engine but we need the right federal policies to rev up that engine," said Vic Abate, vice president of GE's Renewable Energy business. "With 1,000 'clean energy' jobs added in the state in 2008 alone, Iowa demonstrates how the wind industry, with supportive policies in place, can help to transform the U.S. manufacturing sector."

Today, GE's wind blade tour stopped at Trinity Structural Towers, one of three companies in the Newton area that supply components for GE wind turbines. New employment opportunities created by the wind industry in Iowa have helped to partially offset the jobs that were lost when a Maytag factory near Newton closed in 2007. The Midwest has become a wind turbine manufacturing corridor and Iowa--the first state to impose a renewable generation requirement on state investor-owned utilities--has become the hub of this corridor.

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