The Wind Industry

2008 Wind Technologies Market Report

Berkeley, California - The U.S. Department of Energy released its “2008 Wind Technologies Market Report.” This report, authored primarily by Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, provides a comprehensive overview of trends in the U.S. wind power market, with a particular focus on 2008. For the fourth consecutive year, the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world in 2008. Specifically, U.S. wind power capacity additions increased by 60 percent in 2008, representing a $16 billion investment in new wind projects.

The Wind Industry

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2008 Wind Technologies Market Report

Wind Energy Growth in 2008

In 2008 U.S. wind energy grew by over 8,500 megawatts (MW) of new wind power capacity, increasing the nation’s cumulative total by 50% to over 25,300 MW, pushing the U.S. above Germany as the country with the largest amount of wind power capacity installed, according to a new report from the American Wind Energy Assocation (AWEA).

Commercial (Large) Scale

The Wind Industry

General News

How Will Stimulus Bill Help Community Wind?

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

President Obama signs American
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."

Incentives

Policy - Federal Level

The Wind Industry

General News

U.S. Wind Power Market Growing

The U.S. Department of Energy released its Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2007 inconjunction with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the report, the U.S. had the fastest-growing wind power market in the world for the third consecutive year in 2007. Go wind!

20% Wind Energy by 2030

Read the recent report released by the Department of Energy that outlines how wind can support up to 20% of our nations electrical demand by 2030. The report can be found here.

Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 (PURPA)

Electric Cooperative

A form of utility in which all users own shares. Electric cooperatives are common in rural areas that are expensive to serve because of long distances between users. Frequently, the government contributes in various ways to rural cooperatives to reduce costs to individual owners/users.

Wind Energy for Rural Economic Development

Wind Energy Companies

From this page, you can access Windustry's directory of companies that do work in wind and community wind.

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Community Wind Projects

Project Development/Planning

Project Economics

The Wind Industry

Ownership:

Community Owned

Where can I find a school or training program specific to renewable energy?

Here is a partial list of post-secondary programs for college degrees and training certificates that focus on wind energy systems or that focus on renewable energy systems. More...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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