Economic growth in the wind for Vestas (Denver)

More than 1,000 Coloradans are working on the state’s New Energy Economy inside the huge, brightly lit Vestas factories in Windsor, Brighton and Pueblo.

In Pueblo, they’re building the big steel towers that hold 100-ton units with wind turbines and blades hundreds of feet in the air.

In Brighton, they’re assembling big, school bus-sized nacelles and hubs, which hold equipment that helps convert wind energy to electricity and anchor the giant rotor blades to the machine.

And in Windsor, they’re building gleaming white, gently curving turbine blades — up to 144 feet long — to capture the wind’s energy at wind farms throughout North America.

Read the full story in the Denver Business Journal