DOE Wind Powering America Program: Wind Powering America is a nationwide initiative designed to increase the use of wind energy across the United States by working with regional stakeholders. State-by-state breakdowns of wind resource potential, success stories, installed wind capacity, news, events, and other resources are updated regularly.
Small Wind Energy News, is a website from the folks at IREC, which also publishes the Small Wind Newsletter each month, to keep readers up-to-date on the latest news and resources for small wind.
Small Wind Certification Council (SWCC): The SWCC, an independent organization, assesses and issues certificates and consumer labels for the performance and safety of small wind turbines in accordance with criteria established in the AWEA Standard. The website describes the process and includes sortable listings for certified turbines and pending applications. The website was designed to give consumers, applicants and stakeholders a more robust set of resources to aid in the development of the small wind market.
"Midsize Wind Turbines for the U.S. Community Wind Market"
EERE Webinar (April 28, 2010). NREL Senior Project Leader Trudy Forsyth presents this TAP Webinar on the DOE midsize wind turbine development project.
New Wind Resource Maps and Wind Potential Estimates for the U.S. (link) prepared by NREL and AWS Truewind, LLC, of Albany, New York.
Governors' Wind Energy Coalition (link) - a bipartisan group of the nation's governors who are dedicated to the development of the nation's wind energy resources to meet America's domestic energy demands in an environmentally responsible manner'while reducing the nation's dependence on imported energy sources and stimulating state and national economic development. See the GWC's recent wind energy recommendations to the President and Congress:
- Great Expectations, Governors' 2010 Wind Energy Recommendations
- Recommendations Transmittal Letter to President Obama
- Recommendations Transmittal Letter to Congressional Leadership
New England Wind Forum Newsletter (link)
Produced by Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC under contract to the Wind Powering America Program of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
DOE 20% Wind Energy by 2030 Project (link)
DOE's technical report, '20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy's Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply,' explores one scenario for reaching the 20% goal by 2030 and contrasts it to a scenario in which no new wind power capacity is installed in the U.S. It examines costs, impacts, and challenges associated with this goal, along with requirements for technology, manufacturing, transmission, markets, environment, and siting to make this goal a reality. The report concludes that the U.S. possesses ample wind resources to meet this goal.
NREL Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS) (link)
The National Renewable Energy Lab analyzed the challenges and implications of shifting 20% of the Eastern Interconnection's load to wind by 2024 in this report, which finds that while this shift is technically feasible, it will require significant expansion of transmission infrastructure.
