In response to last nights ABC News Report sponsored by American University , which featured accusations on how the Obama administration's Recovery Act was used to ship jobs abroad, Liz Salerno, from the American Wind Energy Association, dishes up the real facts: Quote The article and report from ABC World News omitted some major facts: 100% of stimulus dollars going to the wind energy industry have gone to developers of wind projects constructed and operated in the U.S. Rather than shipping jobs overseas, as ... Read More

According to the AWEA’s (The American Wind Energy Association) released annual report for the year ending 2008, the US maintained their #1 positions in several categories with the largest amount of installed wind power capacity even while other leaders emerged in new categories. Twenty four states saw new wind turbine and component manufacturing facilities opened.   The US is now the country with the largest amount of installed wind power capacity, with an increase of 8,500 megawatts of new wind power overtaking Germany which ... Read More