Acciona opens first wind turbine facility in U.S.

January 17, 2008 - by Dallas Kachan, Cleantech Group

Acciona today marked the opening of a first wind turbine production plant in the United States.

The new facility in West Branch, Iowa cost $23 million and was constructed in seven months.

It is to produce 200 wind turbines in 2008, with plans to increase to 400 turbines per year in the future.

The plant will supply turbines primarily for Acciona Energy wind farms throughout North America based on technology from its wind turbine manufacturing subsidiary, Acciona Windpower, in producing its AWP 1.5-77 models.

The plant is expected to provide more than 100 new jobs.

Acciona is a leading developer of windparks worldwide, with more than 5,300 MW installed in twelve countries.

It's also a significant solar developer, recently launching Nevada Solar One, the largest solar thermal power plant (64 MW) built in the world in the last 17 years (see Biggest solar thermal plant in 16 years connects to Nevada grid).

It also has biomass plants, small hydro power stations and produces biodiesel from vegetable oil and bioethanol from wine-surplus alcohol.

The new wind turbine plant in Iowa is Acciona’s fourth, with two other wind plants in Spain and one in China. In total, the company now has a global production capacity up to 2,280 MW of wind turbines a year, it said.

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Factories will hopefully buil in Ill, which would help the local economy. I think people are going green here, and these jobs would help the economy. Everyday there is something in the local paper about another wind farm going up near by. I was wondering if you every considered building a factory in the midwest. This town (Lincoln, IL) had many factories years ago and very soon another one will pull out leaving 100 people without jobs. Other factories have long since pulled out and other factories have laid off. I'm sure there is more than adequate job force here. Not to mention we live on the jet stream it's windy and this new technology seems to be popular. I have my own business here locally Lincoln, IL my business name is Grand Design. If you were interested in looking at this area for development it's in Logan County and the Mayor and or Economic Development person would help you. It's a great area between many larger cities,competitve wages and many companies use this location as a hub to network and delivery thier products nationwide. I recently was in news for fighting Amern's high prices and convincing the city council to oppose any rate increases, this is the article:
Small business owner fights Ameren
A proposed rate increase by Ameren Illinois has several local communities up in arms - and at least one local businessman is calling attention to the looming rate hike.
Jeff Granda, owner of Grand Design at 509 Broadway, asked the Lincoln City Council this week to formally oppose Ameren's proposed rate increase. Aldermen agreed - informally, because they were not in a voting session - and Mayor Beth Davis-Kavelman said she would write a letter in time to beat

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Grand Design
Lincoln, IL 62656

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