The United States market represents 28% of the Spanish company’s wind turbine sales. Gamesa expects to increase its presence in the region and bets heavily on clean energy.
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has visited Gamesa’s nacelles factory for wind turbines in Fairless Hills, in the state of Pennsylvania (USA). This is the third visit that Obama has made to one of the Spanish company’s plants in recent years, although it was his first as President.
The trip is part of the President’s campaign to explain his energy plan, with which he intends to diversify the country’s energy sources and assure a cleaner and safer energy model for the future, reducing the dependence on oil.
Gamesa has another two production plants in Pennsylvania that manufacture blades and towers, as well as assembling wind turbine nacelles. In total, it employs more than 900 people in the US.
The US production plants will enable the company to manufacture the Gamesa G8X-2.0 MW wind turbine, belonging to its most modern platform in wind energy.
Further, the Spanish company has recently started up a high technology facility to manufacture wind turbine blades, located in the town of Ebensburg, which is also in Pennsylvania.
When these four factories in the United States have all reached full capacity, they will create an additional 530 jobs, thus reinforcing the long term commitment of Gamesa in the wind energy business there.
The unstoppable expansion of Gamesa in the United States is in line with the current policy of President Obama’s government, which includes a one third reduction in oil imports by 2020.
Gamesa Eólica, which is now incorporated in the US as Gamesa Wind US, began operations in 2003 with the installation of 56 megawatts. In 2004 and 2005 it signed contracts for more than 669 megawatts, making it the fourth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the USA by market share.
The United States represents 28% of Gamesa’s wind turbine sales. The company expects to increase its presence and revenues in the region and forecasts average annual sales growth in the country of 15% for the period 2009-2013.
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