This web page from the Wind Powering America program provides links to wind resource maps for nearly every state.

Assessing your wind resource is a critical piece of planning a wind project. Click on the link at the bottom of this page to view a presentation given by Wes Slaymaker for a Wisconsin Focus on Energy Seminar in February 2005.

CAUTION: This is a very large (4.5 MB) file and may be slow to download! 

Permitting of Wind Energy Facilities
2002: The National Wind Coordinating Committee.

Community Energy Guidebook
2006: Ontario Sustainable Energy Association

The Ontario First Nation Guide to Wind Power Development
2005: SGA Energy Ltd., Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development and, Gale Force Energy Ltd.

Wind Energy Toolkit
2005: New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Power Naturally Program

Includes a legal guidebook for landowners, a section on lease agreements, and a sample annotated lease agreement.

Wind Energy Manual
2005: Iowa Energy Center.

Handbook on Renewable Energy Financing for Rural Colorado
2005: Prepared by McNeil Technologies Inc. for the Colorado Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation

Wind Energy Guidebook for County Commissioners

2006: Prepared for the U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy & National Association of Counties (NACO)

This fact sheet from Windustry provides a quick overview of community wind. Click on the link below to view the fact sheet.