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Orders for wind turbines for Vestas have ramped up worldwide, but projects in the United States are still relatively flat.

But officials at Vestas and GE, both turbine makers that supply wind farms throughout the country, say the local market is strong this year because of the extension of the federal Wind Production Tax Credit, even if it's not seen on paper.In the first six months of the year, the Denmark-based Vestas, for example, has secured orders to build 686 wind turbines of various sizes for projects in Australia, the Philippines, Sweden, South Africa, Croatia, Uruguay, Italy, Canada, Romania, Ukraine, Belgium, Mexico and Chile. A second South African project was just announced last week.

So far, the projects total 2 gigawatts of power, more than double the amount Vestas had in 2012 at the same time. Vestas has a strong presence in Colorado, as it has two blade plants and one nacelle manufacturing plant in Weld County and a tower manufacturing plant in Pueblo.
...The only United States orders so far for Vestas have been two service contracts in Wisconsin and Iowa on 509 megawatts of turbine power.

Last year, Vestas' U.S. orders had slowed to 6.7 percent of the company's total orders with the impending expiration of the PTC. ....Vestas is bidding on four projects in Colorado at present: two projects for Xcel, a 100-MW project and a 548 MW project still under review by the Public Utilities Commission; a 100 MW project for Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association; a 30 MW project for Platte River Power Authority in northern Colorado and a 30 MW project for Black Hills Energy, a Western states cooperative.