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Second Wind Inc., a leading provider of wind measurement and information technology, has hired Dan Vitti as Vice President of Operations. Vitti will focus on expanding the company’s manufacturing capabilities and operating structure to address the rapid market adoption of its newest product, the Triton™ Sonic Wind Profiler.

Wind Energy America (WEA) announced this week that it has completed the commissioning of the first of two Gamesa G-87 2-megawatt (MW) wind turbines. The turbines make up the company’s wholly-owned Zachary Ridge community wind project, located on Buffalo Ridge in Osceola County, Iowa.

Magnetek Inc. has received an initial production order valued at nearly US $1.5 million for its newly designed utility-scale E-Foce liquid cooled wind inverter. Delivery of the inverters is scheduled to be completed by the end of June, 2010, the end of the company’s fiscal year.

According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. imports about 60% of its oil, with more than two-thirds of it used for transportation. Oil is essential to the basic functioning of the global economy, from the production of goods in factories overseas and across the country to their delivery to local markets. Without oil our military would not be able to defend the country from external threats. In short, we are critically dependent on this non-renewable resource.