Archive for January, 2011

NV Energy has an aggressive wind incentive program, with 5MW of available capacity and over $20 million in funding. Customers throughout Nevada are eligible to participate in the WindGenerations incentive program and, based on program category, may qualify for up to $1.5 million in rebates when they install wind turbines at their home, small business, ... Read More

An international team is working to forge agreements in the use of common methodologies for testing small wind turbines. The group’s intent is to define a globally standardized product label for small wind turbines and establish minimum requirements for the accepted testing process that would allow the label to be placed on products. The National ... Read More

Windustry is embarking on a new project in nine southern Minnesota counties to expand the Small Wind industry and engage farmers, small business people and residents to pool their resources and develop wind energy projects. Working with the Region Nine Renewable Energy Task Force, they will develop Small Wind installations in counties that were hit ... Read More

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has increased the funding available to help New Yorkers install small-scale wind turbines that will cut their energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint The program is available to individual consumers, developers, farmers and others who wish to install “on-site” wind turbines to generate electricity. ... Read More

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is helping its members enhance their communications about proposed wind energy developments with the introduction of Best Practices for Community Engagement and Public Consultation. The guidelines are designed to support wind energy project developers in continuously improving their work with local communities while ensuring that they meet and strive ... Read More

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced in January that it hired Larry Flowers, an industry leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for three decades, and the man who launched its “Wind Powering America” program, to head up the trade association’s distributed and community wind efforts. Flowers spent the last 10 years of ... Read More