Clarion-Goldfield Community School District, Clarion, IA: Community Wind Project
Clarion-Goldfield Community School Distric has a 50kW machine. Case Study available at this link
Iowa
Akron-Westfield Community School District, Akron IA: Community Wind Project
Akron-Westfield Community School District, Akron IA: Community Wind Project installed a 600kW turbine in 1999.
Waverly, IA: Waverly Light and Power Community Wind Project
Waverly Light & Power (WLP) was the first utility in the Midwest to invest in wind energy with an 80 kW turbine in 1993.
Algona, IA: Iowa Distributed Wind Generation Project
There are three turbines in Algona, Iowa owned by a consortium of municipal utilities.
NEW ENERGY television program now available on DVD
NEW ENERGY: A fresh look at how the Midwest is creating a green energy economy
Windustry has partnered with Twin Cities Public Television and Erika Johnson to tell the story of how wind, biofuels, and other renewable energy technologies are contributing to the region’s energy security, economic sustainability, and integrity of our natural resources.
NEW ENERGY premiered on Sunday, January 7, 2007 on MN TPT Channel 17, and since then it has appeared on:
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.
Windustry Newsletter - Spring 2003
Reading, Writing, Wind Energy & Arithmetic Construction of the Eldora-New Providence wind turbine
Case Study: Eldora, Iowa
From his office in the small central Iowa town of Eldora, Eldora-New Providence Community School District Superintendent Bill Grove can see the money his district is saving in energy costs every day by tracking the performance of the wind turbine standing on the grounds of the high school.
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