Concerns about the future of the US clean energy sector were heightened last week when John Rudolf ran a New York Times article describing plans for a 600-megawatt $1.5 billion wind farm in West Texas. With construction set to begin in March 2010, the wind farm will use 240 2.5MW turbines manufactured by A-Power Energy Generation Systems in Shenyang, China, and the capital cost is mostly financed by Chinese banks. - Memoori