Traverse City, MI: Community Wind Project
Traverse City, Michigan was the first municipal utility in the state to install a utility scale turbine in 1996.
Community Owned
Mackinaw City, MI: Community Wind Project
Two turbines were installed in 2001 on old sewer spray fields to help power Mackinaw City, Michigan.
Algona, IA: Iowa Distributed Wind Generation Project
There are three turbines in Algona, Iowa owned by a consortium of municipal utilities.
Lamar, CO: Community Wind Project
Lamar Light and Power in Lamar, Colorado and partnered the Arkansas River Power Authority (ARPA) to develop their community wind project.
Wind Energy Companies
From this page, you can access Windustry's directory of companies that do work in wind and community wind.
Ownership:
What is community wind?
Community wind projects are locally owned by farmers, investors, businesses, schools, utilities, or other public or private entities and they optimize local benefits. More...
Wind Project Calculator
The isind Project Calculator was developed to assist in performing cash flow modeling for community wind projects.
A Comparative Analysis of Community Wind Power Development Options in Oregon
A Comparative Analysis of Business Structures Suitable for Farmer-Owned Wind Power Projects in the United States (November 2004) was prepared for the Wind & Hydropower Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy, by Mark Bolinger and Ryan Wise.
Small Packages, Big Benefits: Economic Advantages of Local Wind Projects
This report by Teresa Welsh of The Iowa Policy Project was published April 2005. This report highlights three analyses that compare the economic development benefits of small-scale, locally owned generation to other larger capacity ownership structures and discusses the barriers and changes necessary to aid the development of small scale, locally owned wind generation, specifically in Iowa.
Renewable Energy: Wind Power's Contribution to Electric Power Generation and Impact on Farms and Rural Communities
Published by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) in September 2004, this report examines the amount of electricity generated by U.S. wind power and prospects for its growth, the contribution of wind power to farmers' income and rural communities, the advantages and disadvantages for farmers of owning a wind power project versus leasing land for a project, and USDA's efforts to promote wind power in rural communities.
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