Monday, May 18, 2009

Vestas Makes Colorado a Clean-Energy Hub


Vestas, a wind turbine manufacturer based in Denmark, is helping Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter get a little closer to realizing his vision of establishing the state as a hub of the “New Energy Economy.”

Last year, Vestas opened a blade-manufacturing plant in Windsor, 50 miles north of Denver. Later this year, the company will open a tower-manufacturing factory in Pueblo, 120 miles south of the state capital.

When completed, the Pueblo factory will be the largest wind tower-manufacturing facility in the world, turning out 900 towers a year, according to a Vestas release.

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