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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)
Virginia Small Wind Incentives Program
Principle Investigator: James Madison University
This program is intended to provide Virginia landowners an opportunity to buy down the cost of a small wind system, as to make the investment cost-effective in the sense of providing a life cycle cost comparable to that of fossil-generated electricity over the lifetime of the wind energy system. During the two-year program, it is proposed to award ten Virginia landowners grants of up to $10,000 each to bring down the initial capital cost of the turbine and support tower, and the expense of installing and commissioning the system. The longer-range goal of the project is to spur the confidence in wind energy necessary for Virginia to implement additional wind energy systems throughout the state, both small and large scale.
Principle Investigator: James Madison University
Term: September 2003 - December 2005
Deliverables / Outcomes:
- Research relevant to small wind system development
- Issue press releases to solicit applications
- Conduct small wind system economic feasibility analysis
- Address zoning, permitting and grid connection
- Plan and host two (in-class and hands-on) turbine installation workshops
- Final briefing
- Final report
The first round of VSWIP Grant Applicants were selected in May 2004 to receive incentives. A second round of grants were selected in July of 2005. The third and final round of grants were selected in January and February of 2006. We are presently working with grant awardees to install their systems. We are no longer accepting applications for the program.
Small Wind Energy Systems Workshop
For further information regarding VSWIP, please contact Jeff Briggs by e-mail at briggsjn@jmu.edu.
