Across the country, wind turbine manufacturers are laying off or furloughing workers; they are not waiting to see whether the hotly debated wind production tax credit (PTC) gets extended by a lame-duck Congress.
By our estimate, approximately 3,000 jobs have already been cut or designated to be cut soon if buyers are not found to purchase wind turbine manufacturing facilities. That number is almost 30 percent of the 11,000 direct manufacturing jobs that the Navigant study commissioned by the American Wind Energy Association predicted exist in 2012.[ia]
