NRG Systems president and chief executive Jan Blittersdorf said: "It is with great sadness that I said goodbye to 18 skilled and dedicated employees today. As the owner and CEO of NRG Systems, this is the last thing I had ever hoped to do. It was a deeply unfortunate, though necessary act to preserve our future in the face of a deeply unstable wind-energy industry."
NRG's announcement follows multiple warnings by the US wind industry that the current 78,000 wind-related US jobs could almost halve next year without a PTC extension.
