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Windustry Rolls Out New Curriculum for Installers

August 9, 2011 - 12:11pm -- Anonymous

Seventeen Minnesota community and technical college instructors recently took part in Train-the-Trainer sessions on a new curriculum for Small Wind Energy Systems and are now prepared to offer courses on the subject.
The six-credit course material was produced by Windustry and written by experts, with support from the MN Office of Energy Security. It is the first of its kind in the country, designed to prepare installers for the written portion of the exam by North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP).
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Small Wind Turbine Program Aimed at Furthering Small Wind Development in MN

August 9, 2011 - 10:46am -- Anonymous

In 2011, with a grant from the USDA, Windustry and the Region Nine Renewable Energy Task Force launched a Small Wind Bulk Buy Program to help rural enterprises take advantage of the state's wind resources and net-metering laws.
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Windustry at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair

July 21, 2011 - 11:04am -- Anonymous

Windustry presents the Wind Energy Center
in The Eco Experience at the Minnesota State
Fair from August 26 - September 6, 2010.
The Wind Energy Center is an interactive, museum-quality display within the Eco Experience at the Minnesota State Fair, in partnership with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Developed and presented by Windustry, it teaches hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans each year about our great wind resource and how wind energy can provide both environmental and economic benefits to Minnesotans. This will be the fifth year of the Wind Energy Center, and promises to be the best yet, inspiring visitors to actively support and participate in small, midsize, and large wind energy development in Minnesota.
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2011 Conference News: Call for Community and Small Wind Abstracts for Fall Event in Albany, NY

July 20, 2011 - 9:30am -- Anonymous

Windustry is currently reviewing presentation abstracts for the Community Wind Across America Northeast Regional Conference Oct. 26-28, 2011 Desmond Hotel, Albany, NY

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 3, 2011
Download the submission form

For more information contact Adam Mehl
[email protected] 612-870-3477

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION TO OPEN JULY 25, 2011
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Community Wind across America conferences to reach Great Lakes and Northeast regions in 2011

May 2, 2011 - 1:27pm -- Anonymous

Windustry is pleased to announce two Community Wind across America regional conferences in the coming months
Michigan
New York
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Small Wind Conference 2011 Look at What's New in the Industry

May 2, 2011 - 12:01pm -- Anonymous

The Small Wind Conference for installers, manufacturers, dealers and distributors returns to Holiday Inn Stevens Point Conference Center in WI, June 14 – 15, 2011

The annual small wind conference brings together professionals with those new to the industry for honest dialogue, networking.
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Windustry Creates Essential Curriculum for Small Wind Installers

May 2, 2011 - 11:49am -- Anonymous

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Financing Second Turbine in UMN, Morris took ingenuity

April 4, 2011 - 11:03am -- Anonymous

Photo: Courtesy of Courtney Driessen '12, Blooming Prairie, Minn.

A Second wind turbine began operating at the University of Minnesota, Morris, in March, 2011 - just south of the first public university large-scale wind research turbine in the nation, installed in 2005.
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Windustry Attends Renewable Energy Roundtable with Senator Franken

February 25, 2011 - 9:58am -- Anonymous

On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, Windustry Executive Director Lisa Daniels and Program Analyst Dan Turner met with U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn) and other notable Minnesotans including entrepreneurs, business executives, economists, and tax experts, in a roundtable panel discussion at the University of Minnesota Morris, to discuss how best to improve the federal policy environment for local renewable energy development.
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In the News: Report on Windustry Conference in State College

February 18, 2011 - 7:22pm -- Anonymous

Reporter Kristine Allen, with NPR affiliate WPSU, produced an in-depth feature on the Community Wind across America Mid Atlantic conference, held in State College, PA, February 8 and 9, 2011. Allen says, "At this conference they're not talking about the huge wind farms you've seen on TV commercials, here the focus is on smaller scale projects that can be done by local communities or even by individual homeowners."

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The Small Wind Conference for installers, manufacturers, dealers and distributors returns to Holiday Inn Stevens Point Conference Center in WI, June 14 – 15, 2011

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