This web page provides information for local governments, including managers, staff and other individuals who oversee local government services. It is developed and maintained by the International City/County Management Association.

Visit it on the web at http://www.usaenergy.org/.

This web page from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives features information on strategies for local governments to develop wind power.

Visit the page at http://www.greenpowergovs.org/wind/.

From their website:

" A major responsibility of the Evansville Initiative is to investigate, support, and promote viable alternative energy ventures. As projects come to our attention, interested members investigate the current situation and feasibility for our locale."

RENew Northfield is a citizen's group working to lead the Northfield, MN area community to energy self-sufficiency.

Visit them online at http://www.renewnorthfield.org/.

CERTs is an initiative for Minnesota communities looking to take charge of their energy futures.

Visit them on the web at http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/.

From the Collaborative's web site:

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.

This report was written by Mark Bolinger of the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory and published in March 2004. Find it online on the Laboratory website.

This guidebook was created by Charles Kubert for the Environmental Law and Policy Center in 2004. It talks about business models, sources of equity, grant and loan programs, incentives, and power purchase agreements for community wind projects. You'll find it online on the ELPC website.

This report was prepared for the Energy Trust of Oregon by Mark Bolinger, Ryan Wiser, Tom Wind, Dan Juhl, and Robert Grace, and published in August 2004. It provides an examination of potential community wind project ownership structures in the Northwest and the types of support needed to make them viable.