Denver Post: Bigger, cheaper, faster: Colorado company advances its technology to harness the wind
The Department of Energy has awarded Keystone Tower Systems grants to help develop equipment to manufacture its spiral-welded, tapered wind towers. The company is opening its first tower production plant in Pampa, Texas, later this summer.
The company won an $800,000 grant in March from the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium, established by the Energy Department. The award dovetails with President Joe Biden’s plan to accelerate development of the nation’s offshore wind industry to reduce the use of fossil fuels and address climate change.
In Denver, Keystone Tower will continue to produce the custom manufacturing equipment it uses to make its towers. The equipment will be mobile, allowing the company to produce the much taller towers that are needed on the East Coast and offshore but would be too big to ship by truck.