APWR has yet to produce a wind turbine and management has been promising progress in wind power for the past 3 months.   90 days later, there is nothing but empty promises and the stock has dropped 50% in 12 days.   Wake up and smell the coffee APWR management, you either deliver or this market will tank you as you have noticed with a 50% haircut in 12 trading days.   Its about time for another pomp and circumstance PR like the GE Gear Box press release and this time , it will be the CHINESE GOVT going to announce a major wind power contract for APWR.

If you check the net and my blog, I got the GE part right…….., now, will I get the Chinese Government major contract right????   Answer is YES but I have no clue of when or how much.   If China does not start spending that stimulus package , the entire country of China goes down the drain………..its about time for APWR to get a stimulus surplus of press release momentum……..of course we all KNOW the results for 1Q09 will be horrendous and abysmal due to wind misses and cold weather.

So, bottom line, I am going to add some more APWR shares this week based on my ””probability thinking premonition guessing (((that is Scientific SWAG for the non knowledgeable out there)), ie,  its time for China to announce some spending on Wind Power and since 70% must come from companies inside China, its time for APWR to win a very nice size Wind Power contract.

Good luck to all LONGS on APWR and may all shorts burn in hell!!!  I would COVER and take your profits, you earned them and you made them……….dont give away your hard earned profits!

USA 2,454 GE Wind Vestas Siemens

Germany 2,233 Enercon Vestas REPower

India 1,840 Suzlon Enercon Vestas

China 1,334 Goldwind Vestas Gamesa

Spain 1,587 Gamesa Acciona Vestas

France 810 Nordex Vestas REPower

Canada 776 GE Wind Vestas Enercon

UK 631 Vestas Siemens REPower

Portugal 629 Vestas Gamesa Enercon

Italy 417 Gamesa Vestas Enercon

Pelosi, Reid Say No to Coal at U.S. Capitol

Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today requested that the Capitol Power Plant stop burning coal and instead switch to clean burning natural gas. As the only facility in Washington D.C. still burning coal, the plant is a symbol of our country’s dependence on dirty energy. Their request comes just one day after, the Sierra Club, along with its allies Friends of the Earth and Earthjustice, sent a letter to Congressional leaders on Wednesday, including Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, requesting their support to end coal burning in the District.

In response Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign issued the following statement.

“Under the strong leadership of Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi, the U.S. Capitol has already made great strides in improving efficiency, increasing recycling and reducing water use. Ending coal use at the Capitol Power Plant is the next significant step, a tangible demonstration of our country’s dedication to a clean energy future.

“Stopping the use of coal at the Capitol Power Plant will help local residents breathe easier, but the positive impacts will stretch far beyond the District. Bold measures are needed right now to reduce global warming emissions and we look forward to continuing to work with Congress and the new Administration to send a clear signal to cities and states across the country that after eight long years, America is serious about clean energy and green jobs.

“Today’s request sets a positive tone as ten thousand young Americans descend on D.C. this weekend to rally for clean energy as part of Power Shift 2009.”

With the 30% credits being offerred by the new US Govt stimulus spending package, small wind 4 homes now makes economic sense…….let me know, comment or email me for options for your home in Colorado!   There are new options out there that are beautiful options without the big ugly turbine looks for commercial units!

A little less than three months into the year, the dust is still settling on the largest batch of new wind power construction the U.S. has ever seen. In 2008, the U.S. wind industry activated over 8,300 MW of new capacity, swelling the U.S. cumulative total by 50% to over 25,000 MW and pushing the U.S. above Germany as the country with the largest amount of wind energy capacity installed.

Another impressive finisher: New York doubled its end-2007 capacity; moreover, the state has a number of projects poised to be fully commissioned that will raise its total past the 1 GW (1,000 MW) mark. In that regard, there are now seven states in the “Over-1 Club,” with Colorado and Oregon joining the top five states of Texas, Iowa, California, Minnesota and Washington.

looking for info and links to what T Boone Pickens is up to in Texas?????   Is he actually building any wind turbines or have all been suspended?????  Links plz, no opinions!!! Thanks

The provincial government released legislation Monday that would, among other things, create a feed-in tariff to promote small-scale energy projects like solar arrays on homes, standardize rules for renewable energy programs to remove local roadblocks and streamline provincial approval for clean power projects.

The “Green Energy Act,” which relies on rule changes and incentives, would also offer low-interest loans to homeowners who invest in on-site energy generation, like small turbines.

“Our ambition is to increase the standard of living and quality of life for all Ontario’s families,” George Smitherman, minister of energy and infrastructure, said in a press release. “That is best achieved by creating the conditions for green economic growth.”

Ontario is an active player on energy and climate policy. The province plans to ban coal-fired power plants by the end of 2014. It introduced North America’s first feed-in tariff in 2006, and met its goal of 1,000 megawatts of small-scale renewable energy, a 10-year target, in about 12 months. And Canada’s two largest wind farms are located in Ontario, which expects to have 1,200 megawatts of turbine-powered electricity by year’s end.

The Coastal Bend is becoming an important player in the production of “green” energy thanks to steady sea breezes and wide-open spaces. Several companies are building or planning to build “wind farms” that will use wind to generate electricity without consuming fossil fuels or creating greenhouse gases.
OOThe Papalote Creek Wind Farm in San Patricio County is on the forefront of this effort thanks to cooperative efforts between county residents, a German energy company and a Denmark firm that manufactures giant turbines that convert wind energy into electricity.
OO“This is a positive thing for San Patricio County,” says Fred Nardini, San Patricio County’s Precinct 2 commissioner. “It’s non-polluting and it helps with our employment situation.”
OOE.On Climate & Renewables, which is building the Papalote Creek Wind Farm, plans to erect 109 wind turbines standing 400 feet tall. These three-bladed structures are expected to generate 179 megawatts of electricity per year, which is enough energy to power 53,955 homes. A single megawatt of electricity can power 230 typical Texas homes for a year, according to the State Energy Conservation Office.
OOThe project will create 400 temporary construction jobs and eight to 10 permanent jobs, Nardini says. It also will generate an economic impact of $300 million and add $200 million in appraised value to the county’s tax base. San Patricio County and the Odem/Edroy, Sinton and Taft school districts will benefit from increased tax revenues generated by the added value.
OOThe U.S. wind industry expanded 45 percent in 2007 with more than half of that growth taking place in Texas, which leads the nation in wind energy and accounts for one-third of the nation’s total installed wind capacity. The Coastal Bend is an ideal spot for wind farms, Woodson says.
“You have good wind resources coupled with a lot of available transmission, and you’re fairly close to places like Corpus Christi that have immediate needs for power,” he says. “All these things make it a good candidate.”
OOThe Papalote Creek Wind Farm will be laid out on 15,000 acres of farmland in San Patricio County running in a west/northwest fashion from west of Portland past Taft. In addition to the wind farm, E.On will spend $4 million to $5 million on road improvements that will allow the company to bring in the parts needed to erect the towers without damaging county roads. The company will improve 30 miles of Precinct 2’s 139 miles of roads, Nardini says, and will repair any damages that occur as a result of hauling the parts in. Once the project is complete, San Patricio County will assume responsibility for maintaining the roads.
OOPatrick Woodson, chief development officer for E.On Climate & Renewables, says many of the parts have already arrived at the Port of Corpus Christi. An area on which to store the parts is under construction, he says, as is a substation designed to capture power generated by the farm. The power will then be sent over transmission lines into the electrical grid.
OOA groundbreaking ceremony will be held in early 2009, Woodson says, and the project is expected to be up and running by fall of 2009. “It’s a fairly simple construction process,” he says, “and so it can be done in a short period of time.” The company hopes to build a second phase at a later date.
OOParts for the tower come in three sections, Woodson says, with the center section topping off at 262 feet. The top portion that includes the actual blades adds another 130 feet to the height. Once assembled, an onsite crew maintains the wind turbines, climbing to the top to change the oil and lubricate moving parts.
OOTwo major wind farms are under construction in Kenedy County. The $400 million Penascal Wind Farm will have 84 turbines, while the $800 million Gulf Wind project will feature 118 turbines. The two farms are expected to generate 485 megawatts of power.
OOThe Port of Corpus Christi is benefiting from the projects through fees charged to companies that import the parts needed to construct these farms. The Port also plans to get into the wind farming business with help from Revolution Energy LLC, a Colorado company that plans to erect 17 wind turbines along the Port’s inner harbor. The Harbor Sunrise Industrial Wind Power project is expected to produce 35 megawatts of electricity per year.
OOOther proposed projects in the area include Alta Mesa and Rio Vista wind farms near Hebbronville. Corpus Christi firm American Shoreline has teamed with San Diego’s Eviva Spinnaker Energy to build the two farms.
OOMore evidence of the Coastal Bend’s emergence as a center for wind energy is the $20 million wind-energy research and blade-testing facility scheduled to open in the fall of 2009 in Ingleside-on-the-Bay. The testing center, which will be the largest in the world, is expected to attract manufacturers to the region.
OOThe U.S. Department of Energy selected the site at Ingleside-on-the-Bay to build a facility to test blades to ensure that they meet wind turbine design standards. The center will also conduct research designed to reduce machine costs and reduce the technical and financial risk of deploying mass-produced wind turbine models.
OOThe Lone Star Wind Alliance, a coalition of universities, government agencies and corporate partners, prepared the proposal submitted to the federal government, which chose the site because of its access to the Gulf of Mexico. The University of Houston will design, construct and operate the 22-acre site.
OO“With only two such facilities in the nation, with our port as a major handler of blade importing and with the current actual building of the wind towers in our area, I see this industry growing in much the same way as the offshore fabrication industry has,” said Josephine W. Miller, executive director of the San Patricio Economic Development Corp. in an interview with Business Images of the Coastal Bend.

The Capitol Power Plant, which is owned by Congress, burns coal to heat and cool numerous buildings on Capitol Hill, and has become a powerful symbol of coal’s stranglehold on the environment and public health. Coal is the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution. In addition, burning coal cuts short at least 24,000 lives in the U.S. annually, inflicts severe damage to the landscape and water supplies, and jeopardizes the lives of miners.

“It’s way past time for civil disobedience to stop mountaintop removal and other coal abuses and to move quickly toward clean, renewable energy sources,” said Judy Bonds, co-director of Coal River Mountain Watch of West Virginia, which works to stop mountaintop removal and rebuild sustainable communities. “For over a century, our Appalachian people and communities have been crushed, flooded and poisoned as a result of the country’s dangerous and outdated reliance on coal.”

There are clean and safe alternatives to coal, like wind and solar power, which will create at least 5 million jobs and help curb global warming. A recent University of Massachusetts study found investing in clean energy projects like wind power and mass transit creates three-to-four times more jobs than the same expenditure on the coal industry. The wind power sector has grown to employ more Americans than coal mining as demand for clean energy has jumped over the past decade. Investing in wind and solar power would create 2.8 times as many jobs as the same investment in coal; mass transit and conservation would create 3.8 times as many jobs as coal.

“As Indigenous Peoples of the Black Mesa region we have come to DC to stand in solidarity with many other communities affected by coal mining and with all those who object to the continued dependence on coal,” said Enei Begaye, Co-Director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition. “It is of the utmost importance for people throughout the country to take action. We must demand a national energy policy without coal.”

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On March 2, to follow the Capitol Climate Action online through live blogs and streaming videos and photos, visit www.capitolclimateaction.org. You can also follow the Twitter text loop at @climateaction.

For a list of sponsors and more information about the Capitol Climate Action (including videos about the event), visit www.capitolclimateaction.org.

CONTACTS: Nell Greenberg, Communications Manager, Rainforest Action Network, 510-847-9777; Mike Crocker, Greenpeace USA Media Officer, 202-319-2471; Anne Havemann, Communications Director, CCAN, 240-396-2022