Distribution | Windustry

Revolution: Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference

2008

Come learn about Oklahoma’s wind energy successes, energy policy developments, technology advancements, and what steps and actions are required to expand our state’s wind energy contribution to America’s energy mix. Featuring special keynote addresses by wind energy advocate T. Boone Pickens and Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy.

This exciting event will include timely seminars about wind energy growth for Oklahoma and America, including discussions about finance, resource assessment, policy, infrastructure, and other key issues, including:

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Oklahoma

South Dakota PUC Interconnection Workshop

2008

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission will host an interconnection workshop March 18-19, 2008, in Pierre. The workshop will be held at the Kings Inn Hotel and Conference Center, 110 E. Sioux Ave. This will be the first of several workshops designed to develop a statewide best practices model for connecting small generating facilities to the electric grid.

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Special Events

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South Dakota

Minnesota Wind Development and Roads, Bridges, Land Use workshop

2008

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Meetings

Wind Energy and Transmission: the South Dakota Landscape

2007

On November 29th – 30th, the meeting Wind Energy and Transmission: The South Dakota Landscapewill be held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The meeting will focus on wind and transmission issues relevant to South Dakota, including the following topics:

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New Rules website on Distributed Generation Interconnection Standards:

http://www.newrules.org/electricity/interconnect.html

Three-Phase Distribution or Transmission Lines

Electrical power lines that carry electric energy from one point to another in an electric power system, using three power lines, to transmit three different electrical signals. The phases, or electrical signals, required for most large rotating machines which are used in many manufacturing processes and for many commercial/large wind turbines. The U.S. Department of Labor: Occupational Safety & Health Administration has a great online guide illustrating generation, transmission, and distribution equipment in an easy to understand format: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/electric_power/illustrated_glossary/inde...

Grid

A network of power lines or pipelines used to move energy from its source to consumers.

Distribution System

The poles, wires, transformers, breakers, fuses, and other associated equipment, used to deliver electric energy from a bulk power supplier to the consumer. Typically, the distribution system is defined as power lines and associated equipment where the operating voltage is less than 69 kilovolts.

Distribution Cooperative

An electric cooperative that purchases wholesale power and delivers it to consumer members.