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Northwire Inc. – Technical Cable (Osceola, Wis.): Katina Kravik has been promoted to CEO. She is the third generation in her family to own and lead the privately held 37-year old company, as her grandfather, Ormund Kravik, founded Northwire in 1972, and her father, Mark Kravik, led the company for more than 30 years. Northwire manufactures technical and retractile cables for applications in the industrial, energy, life sciences, government, machine vision, lighting and underwater market segments.

EMCOR Group Inc., Norwalk, Conn., has received a contract from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center for facilities operations and maintenance services at the Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California and at the NASA facilities in Palmdale, California. Details

GE Energy, Atlanta, has taken a commanding lead in the number of 2009 wind farms installations, with its wind turbines being installed in 21 of the 51 wind farms currently under construction that have announced their turbine maker. According to a report
published by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Washington, D.C., on Oct. 20, Siemens and Vestas are also major players right now, with their wind turbines being installed in eight wind farms.
AWEA reported in its third-quarter market report that the U.S. wind energy industry installed 1,649 MW of new power generating capacity in the third quarter — an amount higher than either the second quarter of 2009 or the third quarter of 2008 — bringing the total capacity added this year to date to over 5,800 MW. AWEA also reported that wind turbine manufacturing still lags below 2008 levels, in both production and new announcements.

Since the early July announcement of rules to implement the stimulus bill, the wind industry has seen over 1,600 MW (enough to serve the equivalent of 480,000 average households) of completed projects, and over 1,700 MW of construction starts.