A Survey of State Support for Community Wind Power Development by Mark Bolinger of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, published March 2004.

This school district has a 600kW turbine. Read more about the district on their web site. Read this brief news article about the turbine from Wind Powering America.

There are three turbines in Algona, Iowa owned by a consortium of municipal utilities.

This 2003 report from the National Wind Coordinating Committee uses three case studies to estimate the effects of wind energy development on local economies.

Click here to view the report. 

Schoolyards and Wind Turbines: Bureau Valley School District Gets a Turbine

http://www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/index.html

Carleton College installed the first college owned commercial scale wind turbine in the country in September 2004. The 1.65 MW turbine offsets approximately 40% of the campus' electricity use.

Read Windustry's case study in our Summer 2006 Newsletter.

This school district has a 50kW machine. Learn more about the school district on their website.

This school has a 95kW turbine. Learn more about the school district on their web site.

Proceedings from Community Wind Energy 2008 are now available!

The proceedings are available as a CD-ROM. The disc contains more than 28 hours of recordings of all the conference sessions*, including question and answer sessions, and PDF copies of presenters' slides.

The Eldora-New Providence Community Schools installed a 750 kW wind turbine in October 2002. Read Windustry's case study in the Spring 2003 Newsletter or visit the school's website.

This school district has a 600kW wind turbine.

Read more in the September 2003 AWEA Newsletter. 

http://www.greenenergyohio.org/default.cfm?Flash=true

This handbook was prepared by Windustry for the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and published January 1, 2004. The purpose of this handbook is to inform the reader about wind as a resource for generating electricity, with emphasis on Illinois as a potential host for small-scale and large-scale projects.

Hull, Massachusetts has two utility-scale turbines. The second was installed largely because the first one was so successful.

Read more about the Hull turbines on the Hull Wind web site. 

Breaking the Mold: Rural Cooperative Wind Energy

No. While leasing land to wind developers is still the most common way for landowners to get involved with wind energy, more and more farmers, landowners, schools, municipal utilities, and rural communities are developing projects and owning the turbines themselves.

Small Wind Turbines in Illinois

Kendall County, Illinois

Gary Kizior installed a 10 kW Bergey turbine in December 2002, replacing his old Whisper 3 kW machine. It sits on the same 80-foot tip-up tower that Whisper machine used. This project was half funded by the Illinois Renewable Energy Resources Grant Program and was among the first small turbines in the state to receive a grant through this program.

Lac qui Parle Valley High School has had a 225 kW wind turbine since 1997. Read more in this Clean Energy Resource Teams case study.

Lamar Light and Power in Lamar, Colorado and partnered the Arkansas River Power Authority (ARPA) to develop their community wind project.

Macalester College in St. Paul, MN installed a 10kW machine on its urban campus in 2003.

Two turbines were installed in 2001 on old sewer spray fields to help power Mackinaw City, Michigan.

Read more about this project on the Mackinaw City web site. 

Minwind I & II are two innovative farmer-owned utility scale wind project in Luverne, MN.

Read more about them in the Fall 2002 Windustry Newsletter.