Dan Wing response to Lisa Linowes regarding the WSJ article

Lisa:

Your analysis is extremely astute.

IMO, Acciona/Iberdrola's strategy (and the overseas windpower companies' survival strategy -- to maintain and increase handouts from U.S. and State governments) is LOCAL Control.

One element of that strategy is to promise to build turbine production factories on the U.S. HOME FRONT in Iowa, etc. That creates LOCAL factory JOBS for the LOCALS that politicians like to endorse and pursue with handouts. Build the LOCAL factory, then start asking (at repetitive intervals) to EXPAND said LOCAL factories to meet Iberdola's (etc.) "need" to EXPAND regional windfarms because more (and bigger) LOCAL factories increase the "availability of turbines". Further exapnd LOCAL Production JOBS by expanding LOCAL factories -- the promises of further increased LOCAL Production JOBS warranting the politicians and government to hand out more FREEBIE INCENTIVES to Acciona/Iberdola (etc.). Control LOCAL politicians by DONATING money to them and by LOBBYING as a LOCAL entity.

In New York State, its a bit different form of LOCAL strategy. Purchase LOCAL energy end user companies which LOCALLY control the type and quantity of electricity they offer and provide their LOCAL communities. Market themselves as if they are LOCAL community companies (by running their foreign-owned LOCAL Companies under friendly regional or community sounding names such a NEW YORK STATE Electric & Gas and ROCHESTER Gas & Electric and Energy EAST. Answer to LOCAL power regulations of those same foreign-owned LOCAL power companies. Have those foreign-owned LOCAL power companies devise and represent the LOCAL power requirements and needs, requesting more incentives'-based EXPANSION of windpower sources and requesting similar freebies as [foreign-owned] LOCAL end users (NYSEG; RG&E, etc.) of substantially increased amounts of windpower that they Procure for the LOCAL. As the LOCAL power utility, constantly cry out for more Windpower GENERATION tubine farms in their LOCAL region. And always repetively hammer on the theme, if only there are more, then the LOCAL economy will benefit.

Dan Wing