Wind Energy Internet Resources

Wind Energy Basics from Windustry. Windustry's areas of special focus include: economic development from wind energy; landowner rights, risks, and benefits; and community-based wind energy. http://www.windustry.com/basics/default.htm

State Wind Working Group Handbook, from U.S. Dept. of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL prepared this as resource for state partners in their efforts to engage effectively in wind energy outreach. NREL's Wind Powering America program assembled this series of topical issue briefs and related PowerPoint presentations. This guidebook addresses the range of basic and technical issues such as wind resource assessment, siting, transmission, economics, utility integration, and the project development process. Policy issues are also addressed, including net metering, green power, policy options, IRP, and development on state and federal lands. (351 pages; 11 MB file) http://www.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy03/34600.pdf

Wind Web Tutorial, from the American Wind Energy Association http://www.awea.org/faq/index.html

Community Wind Financing Handbook, from the Environmental Law and Policy Center ELPC's goal for this handbook is to identify critical financing issues and present several possible financing models that reflect the differing financial positions and investment goals of various project owners/developers. (25 pages; 0.7 MB file) http://www.elpc.org/documents/WindHandbook2004.pdf

Wind Energy Resources in Missouri, from the Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources' Energy Center /energy/renewables/wind-energy.htm

Small Wind Electric System Guidebook, Produced for US DOE by NREL. Provides general information (zoning, sizing, basic technologies, cost, interconnection/net-metering, etc.) to folks such as homeowners, ranchers, and small businesses interested in looking at small-sized turbines. http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/pdfs/small_wind/small_wind_mo.pdf

Wind Permitting Handbook, This publication was produced by the National Wind Coordinating Committee in August of 2002 and describes the complete permitting of wind facilities. http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/siting/permitting2002.pdf

Comparative Analysis of Wind Power Development Options in Oregon, co-authored by the Energy Trust of Oregon and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Review of community wind developments in US and Europe and focuses on financial, regulatory, technical, and market barriers issues http://www.energytrust.org/RR/wind/OR_Community_Wind_Report.pdf

Ten Steps to Building a Wind Farm, from the American Wind Energy Association. This 2-page fact sheet provides an overview of wind energy development process, and provides links to related documents. http://www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/10stwf_fs.PDF

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