Planning, Policy and Impacts of Wind Power [1]
Legislation & Policy
- AWEA: Wind Energy & Energy Policy [2]
- DSIRE - State Incentives for Renewables [3]
- AWEA inventory of state incentives [4]
- NASEO: National Association of State Energy Officials [5]
- State Energy Offices [6]
- Renewable Energy Policy Project [7]
- Clean Energy Funds Network [8]
- Utility Wind Interest Group, Inc. [9]
- AWEA: Net Metering [10]
- Massachusetts EOEAs Model Wind By-law: a sample for adoption by Massachusetts towns. [11]
Financing Options
- NREL market analysis models and tools [12]
- AWEA: Cost of Wind Energy [13]
- DOE Green Power program [14]
- Annual Energy Outlook 2002 with Projections to 2020 [15] , Energy Information Administration, November 2001 [15]
- Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2004, Energy Information Administration, November 2001 (pdf) [16]
- Corporate Guide to Green Power Markets, Green Power Market Development Group, July 2002 [17]
- DOE: Renewable Power Sector Data, Energy Information Administration [18]
- NWCC: Credit Trading and Wind Power: Issues and Opportunities, February 2002 (pdf) [19]
- Federal Farm Bill (Farm Security and Rural Security Act of 2002) (H.R. 2646), see: http://thomas.loc.gov/ [20]
- Center for Resource Solutions, Tradable Renewable Certificates [21]
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab study on state renewable energy loan programs [22]
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service [23]
- Minnkota Power Collaborative, Minnesota [24]
- Green Power Market Development Group [25]
- Practical Guide to Wind Energy Development for Municipal Utilities, MN Municipal Utilities Association (PDF) [26] (Case study also available)
- Toronto Renewable Energy Collaborative [27]
- San Francisco Vote Solar Initiative [28]
- East River Electric Power Cooperative [29]
Siting, Permitting & Policy
- NWCC Permitting handbook [30]
- Aesthetic Guidelines For The Wind Industry [31]
- Siting NWCC Wind Energy Issue Brief No. 3 [32]
- DSIRE - State Incentives for Renewables [3]
- Interactions Of Wind Farms With Bulk-Power Operations And Markets [33]
- Audubon: Beyond Oil [34]
- Utility Wind Interest Group, Inc. [9]
- NREL - Predicting Ultimate Loads for Wind Turbine Design [35]