There are many resources to help schools interested in learning more about how they can participate in wind energy.

While every situation is different, one of the best things a school interested in wind can do is learn about what other schools have done, especially schools in their area. You can find pre-sorted search of school wind project case studies from our larger project database here.

You can find a pre-sorted list of resources specifically for schools (from our larger resource database) by clicking here, but keep in mind that school wind projects are simply community wind projects so our collection of resources for community wind projects will be helpful as well.

Wind Powering America (a program of the U.S. Dept. of Energy) has a page of resources for schools interested in wind energy at http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/schools.asp

Resouces on this page include:

This report was published in March 2006 by the Iowa Policy Project.

Click here to go to the report.

This MS Word document from the Wind Powering America program describes how schools are harnessing the wind.

Click here to download a copy.

This brief fact sheet from NREL lists school wind energy activities by state.

Click here to view the sheet.

From the KidWind web site:

Macalester College in St. Paul, MN installed a 10kW machine on its urban campus in 2003.

The Univeristy of Minnesota, Morris has a utility scale turbine.  Learn more on the U of M website or from this fact sheet from the University.

Carleton College installed the first college owned commercial scale wind turbine in the country in September 2004. The 1.65 MW turbine offsets approximately 40% of the campus' electricity use.

Read Windustry's case study in our Summer 2006 Newsletter.

This school installed a 750kW turbine in late 2003. Read more about the project in this case study from the Clean Energy Resource Teams.