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Wire man John Pasqual and lighting rep Jack Melnick
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Electrical product prices remained on their flat trend, showing no change from October and little change in almost all major product categories.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered an update on the city’s plans to renovate its infrastructure to withstand future storms.
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Siemens to supply Texas wind farm

E.ON U.S., an energy holding company based in Louisville, Ky., placed an order with Siemens Energy for 87 wind turbines for the Papalote Creek II wind power plant in San Patricio County, Texas
May 7, 2010

E.ON U.S., an energy holding company based in Louisville, Ky., placed an order with Siemens Energy for 87 wind turbines for the Papalote Creek II wind power plant in San Patricio County, Texas. With a total installed rated capacity of more than 200 MW, the Papalote Creek II wind farm is expected to provide clean power to approximately 60,000 households.

Delivery is expected to begin this month and the wind farm is expected to be commissioned in the fall of 2010. Siemens also will provide service and maintenance for two years.

Siemens is constructing a 300,000-square-foot wind turbine nacelle assembly facility in Hutchinson, Kan., which is scheduled to become operational in December 2010. Siemens also recently expanded its 600,000-square-foot blade manufacturing facilities in Fort Madison, Iowa, which it opened in 2007. The blades for the Papalote Creek II wind power plant will be manufactured in Fort Madison.