by copious.abundance » Tue 12 May 2009, 15:52:16
And some more!
350 jobs at an advanced battery factory in upstate NY (near Schenectady).
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May 12, 2009, 11:35AM EST
GE Will Build an Advanced-Battery Plant
The new facility in upstate New York will make sodium-based batteries for hybrid trains and other vehiclesBy Reena Jana
General Electric (GE) said on May 12 that it would invest $100 million in a battery manufacturing plant in upstate New York, which will produce sodium-based batteries for hybrid trains and other vehicles. The venture, a new business for the company's GE Transportation unit, should bring in $500 million by 2015 and $1 billion a few years later, says Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt.
The move promises to create 350 factory jobs as well as help stimulate the sluggish regional economy near GE's research and development headquarters in Niskayuna, N.Y., when the factory opens in mid-2011. GE has applied for economic-stimulus funding from the U.S. Energy Dept. to underwrite the effort. "A public-private partnership can help us accelerate this," says Immelt.
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4,000 US jobs by the end of next year for a windmill manufacturing company. Including:
-- 650 at a blade factory in Windsor, CO
-- 500 for a new windmill tower plant in Pueblo, CO
-- Plus unknown numbers at Houston research center
-- Also a new windmill plant in Kansas by Seimans.
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MAY 5, 2009
Wind-Power Giant Keeps to Its CourseBy PAUL GLADER
Danish wind-power giant Vestas Wind Systems A/S is hoping that a greener U.S. economy will translate into more green in the bank.
Alternative-energy projects have been scaled back in recent months as oil prices have dropped and developers have struggled to secure financing. Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens delayed his $10 billion wind farm in Texas, and solar-power suppliers have laid off workers.
But Vestas is proceeding with a $1 billion plan to build six factories in Colorado and a research center in Houston that could create 4,000 U.S. jobs by the end of next year. Vestas, the world's largest maker of turbines but a distant second to General Electric Co. in the U.S., is laying off workers in Europe and shifting production to the U.S. to better compete with GE. It hired 650 workers at its new blade factory in Windsor, Colo., and is recruiting 500 for a tower factory in Pueblo, Colo.
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GE and Germany's Siemens AG, which is No. 3 in the U.S., also are adding production capacity and hiring workers. Siemens on Tuesday plans to announce that it will open a $50 million factory in Kansas
[see article below] to make turbine parts. Companies from Spain and India are also developing a presence.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens AG said on Tuesday it will build a wind turbine equipment factory in Kansas to help meet strong demand for wind power in the United States.
The facility in Hutchinson, Kansas, about 60 miles northwest of Wichita, will create about 400 jobs, Siemens Energy said in a statement.
The company said it selected Hutchinson because it is near the geographic center of the lower 48 states and has good transportation logistics.
