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.

The November/December 2007 issue of Rural Cooperatives, a magazine published by USDA Rural Development, features wind energy.

This document was writted by Stoel Rives Attorney Samual J. Panarella, March 2004. Also adapted for North American Windpower in September 2004 and The Law of Wind: A Guide to Business and Legal Issues, Third Edition, 2005. Click here to go to the Stoel Rives web site.

This report from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory was released in September, 2007. The report, titled "Wind Project Financing Structures: A Review & Comparative Analysis," was authored by John Harper (Birch Tree Capital, LLC), Matt Karcher (Deacon Harbor Financial, L.P.), and Mark Bolinger (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Wind & Hydropower Technologies Program.

A summary of this project is available as a pdf on the Focus on Energy web site.