Energy Maintenance Service Opens Center in Abilene
april 8, 2008
Energy Maintenance Service, LLC (EMS), a Broadwind Energy, Inc. (OTC: BWEN) company, has established a comprehensive wind energy maintenance and service center in Abilene, Texas. The new center has the potential to create more than 80 new jobs in the region and will support satellite operations across Texas and the surrounding states.
EMS is a leading wind energy operations and maintenance service provider in North America. The company also provides construction services, training and major component refurbishing.
"EMS is making an additional commitment to the industry by establishing this center, which will support the growing wind industry in Texas and throughout the South," said J. Cameron Drecoll, Broadwind CEO. "This new center also advances Broadwind Energy's overall strategy to fill the gaps in the North American supply chain for energy development and generation."
The Abilene center will be a regional operations and maintenance and training center. It will be located in a 300,000-square-foot building in northwest Abilene which previously housed a Lockheed Martin Corporation plant. The facility also will feature cranes and production test benches that will allow EMS to provide complete repair and retrofitting of turbines and remanufacturing of other major components.
EMS will begin refurbishing the plant in April 2008. Construction will be completed in phases, and the company expects the center to be fully operational within 12 months.
