“Community-based renewable energy projects can produce big benefits,” according to Julie Curti and Justin Goetz in their article “Rewards of Ownership” in a recent issue of Rural Cooperatives Magazine, published by U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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• Dare to DREAM:
  Double Renewable Energy in America by 2012
• Wind Energy Would Benefit from Smart Grid
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
  How Will Stimulus Bill Help Community Wind?
• Wind Energy Jobs Grew 70% in 2008
• On the Wind Energy Trail

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

President Obama signs American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Now that Congress has passed and President Obama has signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, how will this help to stimulate Community Wind projects? According to Denise Bode, American Wind Energy Association CEO, "the stimulus bill contains a number of provisions aimed at helping our industry continue the very strong growth in new installations and new jobs we have seen over the past few years."

ITC Holdings Corp. has worked to develop the Green Power Express, a network of transmission lines that would facilitate the movement of 12,000 MW of power from the wind-abundant areas in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa to Midwest load centers, such as Chicago, southeastern Wisconsin, Minneapolis and other states that demand clean, renewable energy.

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• CERTS 2009 Conference
• Small Wind Workshop
• Big Stone II Approved
• Turbines in Water
• New Staff Member
• On the Wind Energy Trail

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• Landowner Associations
• Recommendations to Congress
• New Staff Member
• CERTs Conference
• On the Wind Energy Trail

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• Xcel Energy Installs Battery to Store Wind Power
• Voluntary Ethics Code for Wind Developers in NY
• Wind Energy in Times Square
• Duluth Port Busy With Turbines
• On the Wind Energy Trail

The United States wind industry created 35,000 new jobs in 2008, according to a news report by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). 85,000 workers are now employed in the wind industry including jobs in manufacturing, development, construction, installation, operation, and maintenance.