Wind turbine factories in the UK will create thousands of jobs

Following up on a tweet last week, I came across this story in The Independent about an £80 million investment in building a new wind turbine manufacturing plant creating 700 jobs.

Whilst the site has yet to be confirmed by the German company Siemens, another company - General Electric (American) announced it too was investing £100 million in the UK with the prospect of creating 2,000 jobs.

The Independent goes on to say that the announcement by Siemens follows "months of talks and meetings at Downing Street, and followed changes in the Budget which announced grants for ports to build green manufacturing hubs."

Read the full article here. Good news indeed.

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General Electric CEO tells America the world won't wait for them

Under the headline "Going green can have a big payday", the Independent Mail reports on GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt's speech at the Summit on Renewable Energy - South Carolina Job Opportunities in the Green Economy earlier this week.

As he discussed the renewable energy market creating 10 million jobs worldwide by 2015, he warned the United States that if it "wanted to be a player in those job-creation industries, it needs to move now because it already is falling behind in some areas".

He also warned that the initial cost of developing solar, wind, bio-mass fuel sources would rise short-term but said "if the development is done in the United States, then new technologies can be made and shipped overseas - that creates jobs".

During his key-note address, he warned "if we (United States) don't get off our butts and more aggressively seek renewable energy, the world is not going to wait on the United States".

You can read more of Jeffrey Immelt's speech as reported on Independent Mail's website - click here.

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