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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)
Wind Powering America - Next Step Initiative
Principle Investigator: James Madison University
As VWEC/JMU has installed, maintained, operated, and now begun to relocate 20-meter NRG meteorological towers across Virginia through SBALP, it has become obvious that the return to landowners is at best marginal. Numerous conversations with selected and prospective participants makes clear the fact that even armed with a year's set of data, most landowners still lack the analytical tools and fundamental understanding of wind power to make educated decisions pertaining to choice of turbine, placement of turbine, or whether installation of a turbine is even prudent. To address this barrier a new program is to be implemented that is designed to provide landowners, especially but not necessarily those who have completed a year with SBALP, a comprehensive set of analytical tools with which to consider their wind resource and potential for wind energy production. When data collected by a 20-meter on-site tower is not available, the Virginia Wind Resource Map will be used to determine the wind resource at a location.
Term: July 2003 - July 2005
Deliverables / Outcomes:
- Issue press release
- Identify clients and initiate data collections
- Conduct wind and site analyses
- Conduct economic modeling and analyses
- Facilitate interaction between land owners and small wind developers
- Final briefing
- Final report
