It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power

Why focus on development around just one major fuel source, oil, when you can reap the benefits of two?

Steamy Houston is beginning a new love affair with one of the most powerful companies in the wind-power industry, Vestas, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines. The company has decided to base its new U.S. research center in the city, citing access to Rice and Texas A&M universities as well as the fact that it already has more wind capacity in Texas than any other state. The center will open sometime this year, and when it is fully operational in 2010, Vestas expects to employ about 100 people in the facility.

Here's a quickie Fast Company article about the development, and here's Vestas' own press release.