For decades, Saint Olaf College has been thinking carefully about its energy consumption and impacts on the environment. On the 19th of September 2006, a 1.65 megawatt turbine became a symbol of its commitment to sustainability.

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Western Community Energy, LLC (WCE) develops community scale renewable energy projects, chiefly wind energy projects, for private landowners, cities, counties, schools, municipal/public utility districts, tribes, and small businesses.

State and Consumer Services Agency Secretary Rosario Marin today announced the release of California's "grid neutral" guidebook; a step-by-step guide to help California schools and community colleges cut energy costs through on-site electricity generation.

There are many resources to help schools interested in learning more about how they can participate in wind energy.

While every situation is different, one of the best things a school interested in wind can do is learn about what other schools have done, especially schools in their area. You can find pre-sorted search of school wind project case studies from our larger project database here.

You can find a pre-sorted list of resources specifically for schools (from our larger resource database) by clicking here, but keep in mind that school wind projects are simply community wind projects so our collection of resources for community wind projects will be helpful as well.

Wind Powering America (a program of the U.S. Dept. of Energy) has a page of resources for schools interested in wind energy at http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/schools.asp

Resouces on this page include:

This report was published in March 2006 by the Iowa Policy Project.

Click here to go to the report.

This MS Word document from the Wind Powering America program describes how schools are harnessing the wind.

Click here to download a copy.

This brief fact sheet from NREL lists school wind energy activities by state.

Click here to view the sheet.

From the KidWind web site: