Wind energy crusaders express optimism

Though the economy of the United States is largely oil-based, campaigners for wind energy are hopeful that renewable energy will experience unprecedented growth.

The executive director of the Commerce and Trade Organization in the Sacramento Area, Barbara Hayes, said that through state laws ambitious targets for renewable energy had been set.

She said this in Washington where she had accompanied a big group of Californian commerce and community leaders who were seeking to persuade federal legislators raise the support given to renewable sources of energy like wind and solar power.

Paul Misso, the chief executive of Marquiss Wind Power, a wind energy firm based in California, revealed that he was making efforts in a bid to encourage people to install compact wind turbines on their roofs for producing renewable power.

Marquiss Wind Power which was established in 2006 sells equipment for generating wind power while are installed on the rooftops of buildings. Paul Misso disclosed that on roofs there was a lot of turbulent winds making roofs a rich source of wind energy.

It is the green technology startups like Paul Misso’s that make Barbara Hayes feel encouraged. Overall the United States wind energy sector is experiencing growth, but the percentage of electricity generated by wind turbines is tiny since most of the power generation in the United States comes from coal and uranium sources.

Last year the wind power sector in the United States grew by forty five per cent. But as per the United States Wind Power Association, the fraction of wind power generation relative to the overall power generation is only slightly over one per cent.