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Events
See what's happening in your region in the wind industry on our Events Calendar, focusing on Community Wind meetings, workshops, classes, conferences, and special events. To submit an event for inclusion on our calendar, please email us. We reserve the right to only post those events we feel are of interest to our constituents.
Wind Energy Center
The Eco Experience at the Minnesota State Fair
Windustry organizes a dynamic, interactive Wind Energy Center for The Eco Experience each year at the Minnesota State Fair. From the towering 123-foot turbine blade outside The Eco Experience building to a commercial turbine section inside the hall, Windustry and our volunteers guide some 350,000 visitors through the exciting world of wind energy as both a source of clean, renewable energy and rural economic development. We could not do this wonderful event without our partners! For information on how to become a Partner of the 2010 Wind Energy Center, contact Samantha Smart, Development Coordinator at 612-870-3474 or samantha@windustry.org.
Windustry Conferences
Windustry is proud to host the premier Community Wind Conference nationwide. Learn more about our biannual conferences.
News
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Rewards of Ownership
“Community-based renewable energy projects can produce big benefits,” according to Julie Curti and Justin Goetz in their article “Rewards of Ownership” in a recent issue of Rural Cooperatives Magazine, published by U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Windustry Newsletter - February 2009
Featured in this issue
- Dare to DREAM:
Double Renewable Energy in America by 2012 - Wind Energy Would Benefit from Smart Grid
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
How Will Stimulus Bill Help Community Wind? - Wind Energy Jobs Grew 70% in 2008
- On the Wind Energy Trail
How Will Stimulus Bill Help Community Wind?
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Now that Congress has passed and President Obama has signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, how will this help to stimulate Community Wind projects? According to Denise Bode, American Wind Energy Association CEO, "the stimulus bill contains a number of provisions aimed at helping our industry continue the very strong growth in new installations and new jobs we have seen over the past few years."
Green Power Experess
ITC Holdings Corp. has worked to develop the Green Power Express, a network of transmission lines that would facilitate the movement of 12,000 MW of power from the wind-abundant areas in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa to Midwest load centers, such as Chicago, southeastern Wisconsin, Minneapolis and other states that demand clean, renewable energy.
Windustry Newsletter - January 2009
Featured in this issue
- CERTS 2009 Conference
- Small Wind Workshop
- Big Stone II Approved
- Turbines in Water
- New Staff Member
- On the Wind Energy Trail
Windustry Email Newsletter - December 2008
Featured in this issue
- Landowner Associations
- Recommendations to Congress
- New Staff Member
- CERTs Conference
- On the Wind Energy Trail
Windustry Email Newsletter - November 2008
Featured in this issue:
- Xcel Energy Installs Battery to Store Wind Power
- Voluntary Ethics Code for Wind Developers in NY
- Wind Energy in Times Square
- Duluth Port Busy With Turbines
- On the Wind Energy Trail
Wind Energy Jobs Grew 70% in 2008
The United States wind industry created 35,000 new jobs in 2008, according to a news report by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). 85,000 workers are now employed in the wind industry including jobs in manufacturing, development, construction, installation, operation, and maintenance.
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