WIND

WIND COMPANIES

Wind Turbine & Related Equipment Manufacturers

• Bergey Windpower is the world’s leading supplier of small wind turbines
• BONUS Energy A/S Denmark
• DMI Industries "The premier manufacturer of wind towers in the US"
• Enron Wind (see menu on left) - 2.1 mb movie (bought by General Electric)
• Gamesa Eólica
• GE Wind Energy
• LIST: Manufacturers of Small Wind Turbines AWEA
• LM Glasfiber A/S world’s leading manufacturer of blades for wind turbines - IPO on Copenhagen exchange 5/3/02
• NEG Micon A/S Denmark
  • the recently-merged force of Micon and Nordtank
• Nordex AG Denmark
• Northern Power Systems U.S.
• REpower Germany (Berlin:RPWGn.BE) - 5mW turbine indevelopment
• Shell
• Vestas Wind Systems A/S Denmark
  • VESTAS & THE US MARKET IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM AWEA

Wind Farm Developers & Operators

• Amec Wind UK
• American Electric Power -- NYSE:AEP
• Ecogen "to provide support to local land owners and community groups who wish to develop renewable forms of energy generation within their locality" UK
• Cielo Wind Power "is the leading wind power developer in Texas"
• enXco is currently developing and operating approximately 4,000 wind turbines on three continents, totaling approximately 750 megawatts - Denmark
• Gamesa Energia
• Global Winds Harvest, Inc.
• EnergieKontor the leading German project developer in the wind power sector
• Enron Wind - construction movie (bought by General Electric)
• UPC Wind Partners, LLC (no web site)
• Mass Megawatts Wind Power "the only publicly traded wind energy company in the U.S."-- OTCBB:MMGW
• National Wind Power Based in UK, office California; has developed, constructed and now operates three projects totalling 122MW in the USA, with 600MW of projects at various stages of development in the USA
• Navitas Energy, Inc. sells "Wind Energy and Hybrid CT-Wind Energy to electric utilities, co-ops and municipals "
• Orion Energy LLC 125 MW of wind energy projects developed by Orion Energy have commenced construction or achieved commercial operation in the past 18 months
• Wintec Energy, Ltd.
• Zilkha Renewable Energy

Specific Projects

• Cape Wind 5 miles of the coast of Cape Cod
  • PDF presentation
• DOE list of projects
• MAYFLOWER e3 Energy is the company behind the design and manufacture of the Mayflower e3 Turbine Installation Vehicle (TIV) UK
• AWEA Wind Energy Projects Database
• Cape Wind Associates is a partnership between Energy Management Inc. and Wind Management, LLC to permit, finance, and operate a 420 MW offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound
• Case Study: Storm Lake, Iowa 193 MW Wind Generation Facility Enron
• TXU Electric/York Research Corporation 34.3-MW Wind Turbine Project Big Spring, Texas

ASSOCIATIONS/TRADE GROUPS

• Danish Wind Industry Association
  • FAQs
  • Wind Energy Movie: "Out of the Blue" windpower.org
• American Wind Energy Association
  • Installed wind energy capacity in the U.S.
• British Wind Energy Association
  • The economics of wind energy
• European Wind Energy Association
  • Wind energy in Europe
• German Wind Energy Association
• Irish Wind Energy Association
• South African Wind Energy Association
• National Wind Coordinating Committee
• World Wind Energy Association
  • A Global Strategy for Wind Energy (PDF)
    

LINKS

• Glossary of Renewable Energy Terms and Phrases solarnow.com
• The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center
• Wind Energy Technology Sandia
• U.S. Department of Energy Wind Energy Program
• The Future of Wind Power TelosNet
• Rotors Aerodynamics aerodyn.org
• Atlantic Wind Test Site A Canadian national facility for testing and development of wind energy technology. . . a key participant in the Canadian wind energy program since it was established in 1980.
  • Wind-diesel Research small wind turbines displace diesel fuel in remote communities
• Numerical Optimization of a Pitch Controlled Wind-Turbine D. N. Sørensen 1 & J. N. Sørensen, Department of Energy Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
• Wind Power Terms Glossary otherpower.com - "homebrew windmills", "wind generator, making 700 watts in a 30 mph breeze, all for around $200 and some scrounging"

WIND ISSUES

Location

• Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States Renewable Resource Data Center - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Cost

• What does a Wind Turbine Cost? Danish Wind Industry Association
• Wind (best installed capital cost per kW: US$800) California Energy Commission

Noise

• Is Low Frequency Noise a Problem for Wind Turbines? NREL

Birds

• Avian Literature Database "a bibliographic database of documents on the effects of wind energy development and towers, power lines and other wires, on birds. The effects on birds include mortality factors such as collision and electrocution and impacts on nesting, foraging, roosting/loafing and other forms of bird disturbances." NREL

Visual Impact