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| Title: |
Wind Energy Development for Municipal Utilities |
| Resource type: |
Guide |
| Topics: |
Business, Communities, Energy, Individual Choices
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| Keywords: |
wind energy, municipal utilities |
| Audience: |
All
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| Region: |
Northwest, Minnesota Statewide, Outside Minnesota
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| Summary: |
This guide assists municipal utility staff in evaluating the costs and benefits of wind energy for their city, and includes information about how to monitor, select sites, analyze data, and conduct a cost-benefit analysis. |
| Content: |
The Minneapolis-based nonprofit Center for Energy Environment (CEE) has published a 55-page "Practical Guide to Wind Energy Development for Municipal Utilities" and a 98-page "Case Study of the Moorhead Public Service Wind Power Program." The guide and case study were jointly authored with Christopher Reed of Christopher Y. Reed Energy Consulting and prepared for the MN Municipal Utilities Association with funding from the MN Legislature.
The guide assists municipal utility staff in evaluating the costs and benefits of wind energy for their city, and includes information about how to monitor, select sites, analyze data, and conduct a cost-benefit analysis. It also includes information on marketing, developing specifications and evaluating bids. An extensive list of references includes sources of wind information, consultants, utility contacts, marketing resources, and wind turbine manufacturers. The case study of Moorhead Public Service's (MPS) highly successful Capture the Wind program describes MPS's 750 kW wind turbine.
The guide and case study are available by calling CEE at 612/335-5858 or online at http://www.mncee.org/pdf/tech_pubs/mmua_guide.pdf (for the guide) or http://www.mncee.org/pdf/tech_pubs/mmua_cs.pdf (for the case study).
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| Suggested by: |
Paul Moss
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| Added: |
10/19/00 |
| Updated: |
09/21/09 |
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