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Here is some food for thought for you lovely folks!!

While incentives clearly play a key role in building state
markets, other factors also contribute. For example, a strong
local sales force can lead to success, as can high-quality
installation crews. $BLDW Has these things ( ; The Distributed Wind Energy Association,
launched in mid-2010 in collaboration with AWEA, identified
the following top priority state markets for policy outreach
and industry focus: California, Texas, New Jersey, Nevada,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Vermont, Alaska,
Minnesota, Massachusetts and Illinois.
Federal and state grants are helping turbines at the top
end of the small wind scale build on recent success in
Alaska’s remote environments to expand in the Midwest and
Northeast, especially Ohio, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and
Vermont. California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program looks
attractive on paper, but permitting challenges have slowed
its implementation.
Sales of smaller commercial-scale turbines (20 to 50 kW) are
taking off in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Oregon, primarily
due to networks of John Deere equipment vendors and
other effective local sales representatives. New York and
New Jersey represent emerging markets for this sector, and
California and Ohio are bright prospects. The agricultural
market remains strong.
With sales volume up 50%, 2010 was the best year yet for
residential wind turbines. California, New York, Wyoming
and Texas experienced strong sales in the 10-kW-and-under
market, followed by Vermont, Ohio, Arizona, Maine,
Alaska, Nevada and Colorado. Based on state-specific
financial returns calculated by a new Web tool (funded
by the U.S. Department of Energy and available at
www.windpolicytool.org) that compares wind policy,
Oregon, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Montana also
ranked highly for favorable investment returns.