Community Wind - Resources
Community and Small Wind Energy Conference
A series of two-day regional conferences of practical information on Community and Small Wind
WHEN October 26–27, 2010
WHERE Renaissance Denver Hotel, Denver, Colorado
WHEN November 15-16, 2010
WHERE Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota
WHEN November 30 – December 1, 2010
WHERE Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel,
State College, Pennsylvania
County Wind Ordinance Survey
The County Wind Ordinance Survey was designed to help users navigate through the permitting regulations for wind energy development at the local level. The information provided will be useful for all wind developers but specifically targets Community Wind developers who are interested in local permitting and siting rules as well as local officials who are working to develop wind ordinances for their area. This survey provides a single place to access the local permitting and siting rules for a certain area as well as providing additional resources for information relating to wind energy siting, such as wildlife interactions and federal permit requirements.
Community Wind Across America
Community and Small Wind Energy Conferences
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A series of two-day regional conferences of practical information on Community and Small Wind
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Denver, Colorado
St. Paul, Minnesota
State College, Pennsylvania
WindWorks! Northwest
WindWorks! Northwest advocates for government approval of well-conceived wind power projects in the Pacific Northwest. WindWorks! counters NIMBY opposition by telling the truth about the effects of wind farms and the economic and environmental benefits they provide.
Ownership Matters: Community-Based Wind Development in Colorado
This publication goes through a broad overview of community-wind development. In includes some helpful resources and addresses the many different areas that community-wind development entails. The content is based on a series of presentations from 2008 by the same title.
Community Wind 101: A Primer for Policy-makers
Released by the 25' X 25' Alliance, The Energy Foundation and Harvesting Clean Energy, this report makes clear that community wind must be an integral part of the nation's energy strategy and lays out a set of public policies designed to grow local wind investment and ownership.
Specifically, Community Wind 101 finds:
"Locally Owned Energy Projects: From Conception to Completion" by David Kolsrud
Publication by a developer/farmer/consultant on all the factors to consider and steps to take in proceeding with a community-owned renewable energy project. The paper is aimed at projects in general and is not specific to wind energy. The information is presented in more of a check-list format, rather than as explanations of each step.
"Community Supported Wind Power" from Mother Earth News
This June/July 2007 article in Mother Earth News covers the basics of community wind and talks about the challenges to community wind in the U.S.
Click here to read the article on the Mother Earth News website.
"Broadening Wind Energy Ownership by Changing Federal Incentives" from the New Rules Project
This April 2008 report from the New Rules Project discusses how simple changes to the federal production tax credit (PTC) and SEC registration process for cooperatives could significantly reduce barriers to community ownership of wind.
Download the report from the New Rules website here: http://www.newrules.org/de/ptc-wind-ownership.pdf
"Wind Energy Guide for County Commissioners" from NACO
This guide from the National Association of Counties was released in November, 2006. According to the NACO website, "this publication is designed to provide county commissioners, planners,
and other local county government officials with a practical overview
of information required to successfully implement commercial wind
energy projects in their county."
