Gloria Ferris

Today, I received this press release from Christine Real de Azua.  Since it is a press release, I am sure that she meant to have this get out to as many people as possible so I am reprinting it in its entirity.  My thoughts on this after the press release itself.

 Att. Editors and Reporters,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2006
Contact: Kathy Belyeu (202) 383-2520
Christine Real de Azua (202) 383-2508

TEXAS OVERTAKES CALIFORNIA AS TOP WIND ENERGY STATE:  AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION (AWEA) QUARTERLY MARKET REPORT
Record year for new wind still forecast for 2006

As the U.S. wind energy industry stayed on pace for another record year, Texas for the first time supplanted historic leader California as the top state in cumulative wind power capacity, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Second Quarter Market Report.

The report also shows that U.S. developers brought online a capacity total of 822 megawatts (MW) in the first half of the year. With the strong growth, the U.S.’s cumulative wind power capacity surged to 9,971 MW-within close striking distance of the 10-gigawatt (10,000-MW) milestone.

Texass cumulative total now stands at 2,370 MW of capacity-enough to power over 600,000 average American homes-followed by Californias 2,323 MW. Texas edged ahead of California by adding a total of 375 MW, about half of the total amount installed in the country since the beginning of the year.

“Wind energy works, for America’s economy, environment, and energy security,” commented AWEA Executive Director Randall Swisher.  ”Continuing the federal commitment to this clean energy source will keep us on the road to a sustainable energy future.”

The full release, including list of projects completed so far in 2006 and of projects under construction, is posted on the AWEA Web site here.

Christine Real de Azua
Assistant Director of Communications
American Wind Energy Association
Direct phone: (202) 383-2508
Fax: (202) 383-2505
Email: Christine@awea.org
Web: www.awea.org
Ohio was at the forefront of the oil and gas industry.  Standard Oil was started on the banks of the Cuyahoga River by John D. Rockefeller, East Cleveland’s first billionaire as Mayor Eric Brewer is fond of telling everyone.  So in the early Twentieth Century Cleveland and Ohio were on the cutting edge of a new industry that Rockefeller knew had potential but even he did not know where and how it would grow.  Ohio was a player long before Texas and California became substantial oil and gas industry states.