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Can Clean Energy Revive Manufacturing?

Can Clean Energy Revive Manufacturing?

The manufacturing sector in the United States continues to shrink — but could the renewable-energy rush spur a manufacturing revival?

A number of solar-panel factories are coming online in the United States, as I reported on Sunday. Makers of wind turbines are also establishing factories in the heartland, where the factories’ proximity to wind farms on the Plains slashes the cost of shipping the giant machines from Europe…………………. many renewable-equipment manufacturers want to set up operations in the United States because they perceive it to be the largest market for the technologies in the years ahead. (Tax credits in the stimulus package for domestic production of renewable-energy equipment also help.) A key factor in bringing SolarWorld to Oregon, said Mr. Klebensberger, was the work force — and especially Oregonians’ “belief in change and how important renewables are.” Proximity to a cluster of semiconductor factories, some of whose workers SolarWorld has recently poached, was another attraction…………………….

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/can-clean-energy-revive-manufacturing/.

May 5, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, ENERGY, USA | renewables