Texas approves $4.9 BILLION wind power project

The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming!!!

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer plans Dallas office, production facilities | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas Business News

Guangdong Ming Yang Wind Power Industry Group Co. Ltd. plans to put four people here to serve as the starting point for its North American and Latin American operations and will work with city of Dallas staff to find a site to build turbines that harness wind power.

The company's production plants in China typically employ 200 to 400 workers, managing director Wang Song said through an interpreter.

"We did our homework – we knew that Texas makes the biggest use of wind power in the U.S. and that Dallas was the biggest city near the wind corridor," Wang said.

 

Yet another example us the US dropping the ball and letting someone else take the lead? (And ensuring that the manufacturing and net profit is send off shore!)

 

Now this is interesting...

George Bush: Wind Advocate or Blowhard?

"This will come as quite a shock to some of our citizens," he joked about his latest task -- writing his memoirs -- with the wind industry audience. "who didn't think I could read a book, much less write one."

Ever the history buff, he is modeling his work on the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, widely recognized as the best of those written by former presidents. Like Grant's, President Bush's memoir will be anecdotal and designed to reveal opinions in the way he tells the story rather than in overtly stated judgments.

One of the anecdotes he will tell, he suggested, is how he saw the opportunity in wind energy in the 1990s and gathered a group of "young, spirited, environmentally conscious people" like Pat Wood, who he later appointed to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

"We like wind," he said he told Wood. "Go get smart on it." Bush and Wood got smart enough to introduce to Texas a 10-year target of 2,000 megawatts of installed wind capacity that would turn into 9,000 megawatts of installed capacity in 11 years...