Utility-Scale Wind Energy

a. General

• Wind Power for Municipal Utilities
  (U.S. Department of Energy, October 2002, PDF 736 KB)
• Wind Power for America: Rural Electric Utilities Harvest New Crop
  (U.S. Department of Energy, February 2002, PDF 323 KB)
• Utility-Scale Wind
  (American Wind Energy Association web link)
• Wind Project Development Process
  (Developed for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory by Dale Osborn, Distributed Generation Systems, Inc., September 1998, PDF 99 KB)
• Utility Integration of Wind Power
  (Renewable Northwest Project web link)
• Working with Industry
  (National Wind Technology Center web link)

b. Financing

• Wind Power Impacts on Electric Power System Operating Costs
  (Paper presented at the AWEA Global Wind Power Conference by J. Charles Smith, Edgar DeMeo, Brian Parsons and Michael Mulligan, March 2004, PDF 68 KB)
• Wind Energy Costs
  (American Wind Energy Association web link)
• Community Wind Financing: A Handbook by the Environmental Law and Policy Center
  (2004 PDF 728 KB)
• A Comparative Analysis of Community Wind Power Development Options in Oregon
  Prepared for the Energy Trust of Oregon by Mark Bolinger, Ryan Wiser, Tom Wind, Dan Juhl, and Robert Grace
  (July 2004 PDF 496 KB)
• Wisconsin Community-Based Wind Power Project Summary
  (Wisconsin Focus on Energy, 2004, PDF 144 KB)
• Wind Energy Finance
  (National Renewable Energy Laboratory web link)
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c. Siting/Permitting

• Wind Power: Siting in Communities:  Wind Power on the Community Scale Fact Sheet #4
  (Renewable Energy Resource Laboratory, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, PDF 220 KB.)
• Wind Plant Siting Issues
  (Sam Enfield, Atlantic Renewable Energy Corporation, Wind Powering America 2nd Mid-Atlantic Regional Workshop, February 2003, PPT 936 KB)
• Landowners' Frequently Asked Questions about Wind Development
  (Jay Haley, P.E., U.S. Department Of Energy's Wind Powering America Program, PDF 552 KB) 
• Wind Energy Easements Legal Issues
  (Windustry web link) 
• Permitting of Wind Energy Facilities: A Handbook
  (National Wind Coordinating Committee, Revised 2002, PDF 1.9 MB) 
• Wind Powering America: Wind Power on Public Lands
  (U.S. Department Of Energy, Wind Powering America Program web link) 
• Wind Powering America: Wind Power on State Lands
  (U.S. Department Of Energy web link)

d. Transmission

• Transmission Planning Principles
  (National Wind Coordinating Committee, February 2004, PDF 108 KB)
• U.S. Transmission Capacity: Present Status and Future Prospects
  (Prepared for Energy Delivery Group, Edison Electric Institute and the Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution, U.S. Department of Energy by Eric Hurst, Consulting in Electric Industry Restructuring, Bellingham, WA., June 2004, PDF 588 KB)
• National Transmission Activities
  (Public Renewables Partnership web link) 
• Summary of the Electricity Title of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 

e. Interconnection

• Wind Energy Interconnection
  (National Wind Coordinating Committee, Issue Brief, September 2003, PDF 72 KB)  
• Western Area Power Administration:  The Interconnection Process
  (Western Area Power Administration web link) 

f. Environmental

• Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian Collision Mortality in the United States
  (National Wind Coordinating Committee, Resource Document, prepared by Western EcoSystems Technology Inc., August 2001, PDF 2.7 MB)
• Wind Energy Development Programmatic EIS Information Center
  (U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management web link)

g. Economic Development

• Economic Development Impacts of Wind Power – Summary of Case Study Results
  (National Wind Coordinating Committee Brief, June 2004, PDF 140 KB) 
• Assessing the Economic Development Impacts of Wind Power Final Report
  (Prepared for the National Wind Coordinating Committee by Northwest Economic Associates, Vancouver, WA., February 2003 PDF 964 KB)
• Electricity from the Wind:  Economic Development for Rural Communities
  (Special to the Nebraska Energy Quarterly web link)
• Economic Development Workgroup
  (National Wind Coordinating Committee web link)
• Wind Energy for Rural Economic Development
  (U.S. Department of Energy, August 2004, PDF 1 MB)

h. Case Studies

• Wind Energy Projects Throughout the USA
  (American Wind Energy Association web link)
• Top Ten Utility Green Pricing Programs (as of December 2003)
  (U.S. Department of Energy web link)
• Hull Wind.org
  (Massachusetts web link)
• Community Wind Case Study: Hull Wind One
  (Renewable Energy Resource Laboratory, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, PDF 364 KB)
• Rosebud 750kW Wind Turbine Installed
  (U.S. Department of Energy Wind Powering America Program web link)
• Nine Case Studies: Public Power Investments in Wind
  (American Public Power Association, PDF 792 KB)
• NREL Highlights Leading Green Power Programs in U.S.