Presentations from "Colorado Wind and Distributed Energy: Renewables for Rural Prosperity"
This conference was held April 13-14, 2004 in Colorado Springs, CO. This link will take you to presentations from the event.
Community Wind Projects
Wind Energy Development and the Agricultural Sector
This web page from Wind Powering America features resources for farmers and others in the agricultural sector.
Wind Powering America's Public Power Web Page
The Wind Powering America program has a web page of resources for public power authorities.
Electricity from Wind: A New Lesson for Schools
Spirit Lake School District in Iowa
Forest City School District
- Dwight Pierson, Superintendent, Forest City Community Schools, Forest City, IA 50436; [email protected]
- Visit: www.forestcity.k12.ia.us and click on the Wind Turbine Info link
Wray School District RD-2
- Jay Clapper: 970-332-5758 ext. 3773; [email protected]. Clapper sometimes visits other districts with a presentation to help them get started with school wind projects.
This MS Word document from the Wind Powering America program describes how schools are harnessing the wind.
America's Schools Use Wind Energy to Further Their Goals
This brief fact sheet from NREL lists school wind energy activities by state.
USAEnergy.org
This web page provides information for local governments, including managers, staff and other individuals who oversee local government services. It is developed and maintained by the International City/County Management Association.
Visit it on the web at http://www.usaenergy.org/.
Wind Power for Local Governments
This web page from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives features information on strategies for local governments to develop wind power.
Visit the page at http://www.greenpowergovs.org/wind/.
Community Wind Power Ownership Schemes in Eurpoe and their Relevance to the United States
This report was written by Mark Bolinger of the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory and published in March 2004. Find it online on the Laboratory website.
Community Wind Financing Handbook
This guidebook was created by Charles Kubert for the Environmental Law and Policy Center in 2004. It talks about business models, sources of equity, grant and loan programs, incentives, and power purchase agreements for community wind projects. You'll find it online on the ELPC website.
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