Wilkes County is a location ideally suited for the manufacture and distribution of wind energy components, particularly, wind turbine blades, housing, and tower components. With a geographic location convenient to the entire Eastern United States Interstate highway system, manufacturers in Wilkes County can support potential wind farm locations along the entire Appalachian Mountain corridor and virtually the entire east coast continental shelf of the United States from Florida to Massachusetts within one day by truck transport.

In addition to having an ideal location with immediate Interstate access, Wilkes County also offers wind energy manufacturers a trained labor pool along with unmatched training resources. Wilkes Community College is home to the Advanced Materials Cluster, and provides a Certified Composites Technician Program in conjunction with the American Composites Program. Wilkes County is rapidly gaining the reputation for manufacturing high quality and critical tolerance components made of composite materials. That reputation is led by MXR Technologies, manufacturer of an all-composite racing and aerobatic airplane which is currently dominating the Red Bull World Series Air Race.