[This is an EXCERPT: read the whole article here. -Ed.]

By Sandy Bauers

"Gamesa Technology Corp. Inc., part of a Spanish company that's one of the world's largest turbine makers, took over part of the [former steelworks] property - now the Keystone Industrial Port Complex - in 2006 and is a key player in its transformation from rust to green."

"Across the state, wind has become the dominant renewable-energy fuel."

"Nationwide, wind provides just 1.2 percent of electricity needs, but that's changing."

"Last year, with $9 billion worth of new projects, U.S. wind power capacity increased 46 percent. Wind accounted for about a third of all new electric generation."

"The $34 million Gamesa plant in Bucks County - another is in Western Pennsylvania - is running 24 hours a day, six days a week."

"Its 600 employees, many former steelworkers still represented by their old union, staff three shifts."

"[Gamesa USA's chief executive officer Julius] Steiner wants to build supply-chain clusters around the plant. 'If that happens, you're talking about a lot of jobs.'"

Photo credit: Kathy Mackey