{"id":297,"date":"2015-09-17T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/17\/a-new-revenue-generator-for-texas-ports\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:54:00","slug":"a-new-revenue-generator-for-texas-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/a-new-revenue-generator-for-texas-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Revenue Generator for Texas Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wind energy is providing added revenue to the Port of Corpus Christi. But there is a cost- the Port is running out of space to take in wind propelers and turbines.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0loading and unloading areas for turbines, blades and other wind-energy equipment take massive amounts of space.<\/p>\n<p>The American Wind Energy Association says\u00a0Texas ranks #1 in the country for both installed and under-construction wind capacity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18,000 wind-related jobs<\/li>\n<li>Wind energy industry last year invested $3 billion in Texas<\/li>\n<li>Texas is home to at least 46 wind energy manufacturing facilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caller.com\/news\/energy-effects\/wind\/port-to-be-updated-on-desalination-turbine-storage-space-1fbb1def-7796-6d31-e053-0100007f9c4b-327676081.html\">Corpus Christi Caller Times:\u00a0Wind energy is making storage space scarce<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind energy is providing added revenue to the Port of Corpus Christi. But there is a cost- the Port is running out of space to take in wind propelers and turbines.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0loading and unloading areas for turbines, blades and other wind-energy equipment take massive amounts of space.<\/p>\n<p>The American Wind Energy Association says\u00a0Texas ranks #1 in the country for both installed and under-construction wind capacity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18,000 wind-related jobs<\/li>\n<li>Wind energy industry last year invested $3 billion in&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-ports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}