American-made commercial wind turbines are being ordered, produced and are NOW shipping. Aeronautica Windpower, Plymouth, Mass.,has decided to buck the trend of plain white towers and are showing off their American Made status with their stars and stripes paint job instead. “The symbolism goes deeper than a paint job,” says Aeronautica’s VP of Sales and Marketing Shaun Lockett. “Most people don’t know it, but other than some smaller machines, many wind turbines going up around the U.S. are made overseas . So instead of sending our petro-dollars overseas, we end up sending them our cash, tax credits, and our jobs. We want to reverse that trend and build high-quality turbines in America .” The company will initiate product of 225 and 750-kW models.

Aeronautica Windpower says that over an expected lifetime of 25+ years, each of the 750-kW turbines will save the amount of foreign oil equivalent to that contained in a line of trucks over a mile long. The “Made in America” approach will also mean replacement parts will be readily available from Aeronautica’s New Hampshire based plant, eliminating the cost and long lead time of ordering parts from outside the US.