All over the world, politicians see the opportunity for job growth in the renewable energy business. For example here in the US, the economy and job creation is one of the key themes in the ongoing primaries and the upcoming presidential election.

The wind and solar power industries offer opportunities to create more good-paying jobs for the local manufacturing industry, particularly as in the past these type of jobs have largely moved to low-cost countries with inexpensive labor, such as China, India, Vietnam and others. In many cases, the job creation opportunity is of higher political interest than concerns about global warming or even the western world’s heavy dependence on imported oil.

For the third time, The Switch took part in the EWEA wind power exhibition which brought over 8000 professionals last week to Brussels, Belgium. True to The Switch permanent magnet generator technology solutions, we discussed our offering with many of our booth visitors, and, once again, it became obvious that permanent magnet generator technology has really become the preferred choice for the wind power industry.

And if EWEA 2011 was the global water cooler of our industry, our revolutionary power train solution, FusionDrive™, successfully launched last September at the Husum Wind Energy 2010 with Moventas, seems to have become a top trending topic.