Innovations and Innovators
Entegrity Wind Systems Inc. Manufacturer of commercial-scale wind turbines. Charlottetown, PEPennsylvania
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- The first commercial U.S. nuclear power plant came online in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania; today, Pennsylvania ranks second in the Nation in nuclear power generating capacity
- Pennsylvania is a major coal-producing State and sells about one-half of its coal output to other States throughout the East Coast and Midwest.
- Pennsylvania is the leading petroleum-refining State in the Northeast.
- The Drake Well in Titusville, Pennsylvania was the world's first commercial oil well, and western Pennsylvania was the site of the world's first oil boom.