The U.S. Department of Energy released its Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2007 inconjunction with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the report, the U.S. had the fastest-growing wind power market in the world for the third consecutive year in 2007. Go wind!

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.

Read the recent report released by the Department of Energy that outlines how wind can support up to 20% of our nations electrical demand by 2030. The report can be found here.

The four titles that primarily affect renewable energy are described here.

Click on the link below to download a PDF copy of the 2008 Wind Energy Center Partner Registration Form.

If you are interested in networking with other wind energy professionals in your area, join one of our WoWE Chapters.  Click on the link below to contact the chairperson for your area. 

• 3 Tier Group
• AWS TrueWind
• Bergey Windpower Co.
• DeLorme
• Distributed Energy Systems
• Entegrity Wind Systems, Inc.
• Gaia-Wind Ltd.
• Horizon Wind Energy
• Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust
• Midwest Wind Finance
• National Renewable Energy Lab
• Native Energy
• Nixon Peabody
• NRG Systems
• NYSERDA
• Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
• OwnEnergy
• Reflecting Blue Technologies
• Renewable Energy Advocates Coalition
• Renewable Energy Systems
• Second Wind Inc.
• Southwest Windpower
• Stoel Rives LLP
• Sustainable Energy Developments
• Suzlon
• Truescape Visual Reality
• Westwood Professional Services
• Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna
• WindLogics Inc.

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You can help bring wind energy to South Dakota and your community!

South Dakota has an amazing wind resource. In fact, South Dakota has the potential to produce more than one trillion kWh of electricity every year--that's enough to power almost a quarter of the entire country!