Excerpts via Bloomberg: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC
By BILL DRAPER The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.
A California-based wind turbine manufacturer is moving its headquarters and production operations to a site at Kansas City International Airport, where the company plans to create more than 200 new jobs over the next six years.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon hailed Nordic Windpower USA as the type of technology company his administration has been working to bring to the state. His administration approved $5.6 million in incentives for the company to make the move.
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Nordic Windpower makes two-bladed wind turbines for the rapidly growing wind-energy market. Its current headquarters in Berkeley, Calif., and an assembly facility in Pocatello, Idaho, will be moving to Kansas City.
Nixon said Nordic plans to invest nearly $16 million in facilities at the airport and will be the first wind turbine production plant in the state.
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full story here: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC
Looks like they’re still consuming funds. http://www.cleanedge.com/news/story.php?nID=6621
I can’t find the sales figures for the company
maz2 says:
December 21, 2010 at 4:52 pm
“Wind Turbine Repairs Delayed Due to Winter Weather in Europe”
“Town officials are waiting for a part from Germany to make the town’s wind turbine spin again.”
“The amount of electricity lost during this time is unknown, he said.”
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That’s hilarious…..
The town has one windmill, it stopped working, and no one missed the power out put
Here in Khal-ee-forn-ya (Aahnuld pronunciation), after Mr. Liberal-in-Conservatives- clothing will leave us with his idiotic commie green laws, those of us who remember our history are NOT looking forward to another 4 years of Brown rot!!!
The liberal legislature refuses to cut budgets and will tax businesses even more.
Then they wonder why we have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country,
and businesses are leaving in droves. I’d love to follow the rats off this sinking ship, but it’s not in the cards right now.
It pains me as a CA native to watch them drive this great state into the ground.
I suspect that the manufacturing equipment for these green companies is on wheels as the skip from one state to the next to take advantage of tax subsidies from the Feds and incentives from the states as they steal from one another.
This seems to be the biggest growth area now. Making what Big Government says is the “next” technology so you can cash in. Nice work if you can get it. While ever increasing rules and regulations freeze out the private sector.
Sweet.
What is going to be interesting is to watch the education of Brown take place in the school of hard knocks.
His answer to everything is “tax the rich!”. Now the rich are fleeing. He is going to have to put a damper on the spending but that might just make his head explode.
I just heard on the radio (John Batchelor show, my favorite show in the radio, if you can’t get it locally, listen to the podcasts posted on his website: http://johnbatchelorshow.com/ .. not a bunch of callers ranting and raving, this is good stuff with great guests.) that Jerry Brown has now eliminated the office of the Inspector General which was formed to oversee use of “stimulus” money.
This is the same office that uncovered “stupid” spending of high speed rail money.
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/inspector-general-rail-officials-may-have-mismanaged-funds-6163
No more worrying about that sort of thing, apparently, because Brown has eliminated the office.
Oops, the “stupid spending” was in an earlier report:
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/inspector-general-finds-stupid-spending-stimulus-funds-1266
I wonder if companies who ditch CA can still cash in the vouchers they’ve been issued by CA in the current budget crisis?
SM I have family in and around Sedalia and down into Branson, Yep, yer right…
Like wife’s cousin who got a job in Eugene Oregon, he was from Southern Indiana,
and Eugene was like Mars to them. They went back to Indiana….
Heck, Eugene is Mars to me too…
It is so sweet to think the power shift in the US house of representatives has occurred just in time to NOT bail out California.
If they throw $ 5.6 million at me, I’ll move my company anywhere on they want.
James Sexton says:
December 21, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Lol, Berkeley has all the renewable energy companies they need. That wonderful bastion of green. Standing in the way of Big Oil and your money and the earth!
http://energybiosciencesinstitute.org/
Like a crackerjack box, you have to get(scroll) to the bottom for the prize.
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Aww, now I’m disappointed. No one commented on my Berkeley/BP partnership proof. Maybe it was well known by most. The windmills were in the way. lol
I wouldn’t smile so broadly. There are a lot of good families that are going to experience real hardship because of this idiocy. That isn’t anything “sweet”.
Confirmation that CA isn’t worried because the Obama Administration will impose by decree on the nation what the lemmings in CA have done to themselves thereby flushing what’s left of the rest of the states’ economies down the toilet.
EPA to double down on climate
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46697.html
Re kuhnkat says:
December 21, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Yes, I have been by that wind turbine six or seven times in the last two years, never seen it moving.
Douglas DC says:
December 21, 2010 at 4:08 pm
A small correction. You wrote “5.6 Billion giveaway to a carpet-bagging “Green” company” but you seem to be off the numbers by a considerable amount, viz, “His administration (Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon) approved $5.6 million in incentives for the company to make the move.”
The sum of money given to Nordic is not so awful and Nixon said Nordic plans to invest nearly $16 million in facilities at Kansas City Airport. That however, is the only positive feature of that report.
Here in the UK, we have windmills to the generating capacity of 2, 430MW, according to this real website http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm we are getting 86 MW, which represents 2 tenths of one percent of electricity generation right now. We have C.Huhne who wishes to erect another 10,000 of these abominations. He is completely witless, but a very, very dangerous individual, unless he is terminated as minister.
http://adamcollyer.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-governments-climate-change-clowns-greatest-performance-yet/
Nordic is failing in California and will disintegrate in Misery, sorry Missouri, but will they survive six years in order to ante up the $16 million to improve the airport?
This was predicted many times by many people here on WUWT. The corporate exodus has begun.
I’m sure one of the points made by the mad legislators of California was green jobs? Well i surpose you could get a Mann to massage the starting figures of -200.
note to R. Shearer–Kansas City International Airport is in Missouri, as is the larger Kansas City. Kansas City Kansas has a major NASCAR speedway.
@sm – There are liberals in KC. They are just all concentrated near Brookside. 🙂
If any California CEOs are out there, KC has a lot to offer. Soon the Kaufman Center for Liberal Arts will be finished, Great shopping and restaurants at the Plaza, and lots of open room in the countryside to stretch your legs. If your very liberal, just remember to mind your manners and you’ll be just fine.
Is this some of the “green jobs” that were promised by AB32 and the failure of the prop. 23 the warmist said would happen if you vote against it!!!!
R. Shearer says: December 21, 2010 at 4:16 pm
California to Kansas, “You can take this factory and jobs and your little dog Toto too!”
Actually it’s KC, Mo. But, as a Kansan, Thanks, but keep the dog.
Curiousgeorge says:
December 21, 2010 at 4:10
It’s called TAXES! ……nd then wonder why the hell they are broke.
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If they are broke doesn’t it mean they are not collecting enough taxes?
I am in the process of moving my solar company from the Bay Area to Maryland.
http://www.greentrailenergy.com
REPLY: well, it is on a trailer, I’m not sure that counts as an “exodous” to escape California 😉 – Anthony
You are spelling it wrong. Its not Berkeley, its Berserkley.