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Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop
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Dissecting Wind Powering America's 20% Vision Webinar
AWEA Transmission Workshop, Mar. 17-18th, 2009
2008 Pennsylvania Wind Energy Symposium
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Wind News in the Region
5th Annual Small Wind Conference a Huge Success!, Interstate Renewable Energy Council (Aug. 10th, 2009)
An Energetic Agenda, Cooperative Living (May 1st, 2009)
U.S. to clear way for offshore wind farms, Chicago Tribune (Apr. 22nd, 2009)
Southwest Virginia: from coal power to wind power?, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Apr. 8th, 2009)
Creating 'green' jobs, Virginia Business (Mar. 27th, 2009)
Wind energy finds fix for exploding bats, The Washington Times (Mar. 23rd, 2009)
Renewable and Affordable, The Washington Post (Mar. 12th, 2009)
Stimulus may get small wind turbines spinning, CNN (Mar. 10th, 2009)
Growing excitement, expectations for green jobs corps, CNN (Mar. 2nd, 2009)
Citizens speak out on wind farm, Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Feb. 24th, 2009)
Dominion and BP Wind Energy officials encourage ridgeline ordinance, Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Feb. 24th, 2009)
Blowin' in the Wind: Turbines Take Off, ABC News (Feb. 11th, 2009)
Tilting toward wind off Virginia's coast, The Virginian-Pilot (Feb. 8th, 2009)
Supporters of offshore wind farm seek stimulus help, The Virginian-Pilot (Feb. 4th, 2009)
Companies silent on potential sites for SW Va. wind turbines, Kingsport Times-News (Feb. 3rd, 2009)
It's blowin' in the wind, Augusta Free Press (Jan. 30th, 2009)
Governor Kaine Announces Legislation to Promote Green Jobs, Part of Renew Virginia Initiative (Jan. 12th, 2009)
GIS Viewer and Project Files
The MXD, APR and AEP project files were created in ArcMap 8.3, ArcView 3.3 and ArcExplorer 2.0 respectively on April 28, 2005. These project files contain the arrangement and layer display properties for all of the data for your appropriate GIS editor/viewer.
Download the Metadata.zip and VA Wind Enviro Project Files (aep apr mxd formats).zip on this page and all of the zip files on the data download page. If you do not have ArcGIS 8.x or 9 or ArcView 3.x, you will also need to download the ArcExplorer Viewer.zip on this page and run the executable to install ArcExplorer 2.0 to view the data. Extract all data from the zip files directly into the following directory path on your computer: C:\Wind
All shapefiles are in the same projection and datum: UTM17 NAD27 The bitmap is in the same projection, but a different datum: UTM17 WGS84 (Thus the bitmap does not line up precisely with the shapefiles, but it is useful as an approximate backdrop.)
The data dictionary within the Metadata.zip file was provided as an abbreviated guide to acknowledge the original source of the data (federal agency, state agency, non-profit organization, private company). The data dictionary should also be used to cross reference the metadata.
