For more information and resources on distributed wind turbines, visit the following sites:
NREL & DOE Resources
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Renewable Energy Lab support the distributed wind industry with many resources and programs designed to support and expand the use of these products. See the links below to several resources published by these organizations:
- NREL’s Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP) provides direct financial and technical support to small wind turbine manufacturers to spur innovation and drive down costs. This includes grants supporting turbine testing & certification.
- NREL Distributed Wind Research NREL conducts research to support distributed wind turbine design, analysis, testing and manufacturing. Resources and projects include:
- Distributed Wind Certification Best Practices Guideline, a report published by NREL which attempts to simplify the certification process in the U.S. by organizing available information and guiding the user to the applicable set of requirements.
- Distributed Wind Energy Futures Study
- Distributed Wind Aeroelastic Modeling (dWAM) project
- Justification for Updates to ANSI/ACP Small Wind Turbine Standard, a report published by NREL documenting the rationale for changes to the U.S. national standard for small wind turbines.
- Case Studies
- DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) supports a portfolio of interrelated R&D efforts with the national laboratories as well as academia and industry stakeholders. WETO invests in leading edge, world-class test facilities and research capabilities at the national laboratories. WETO’s research includes modeling & analysis, deployment acceleration, systems integration and distributed wind turbine R&D. WETO works with PNNL to publish an annual market report on distributed wind in the U.S.
Industry Organizations
- Distributed Wind Energy Association | www.distributedwind.org
- American Clean Power Association (ACP) | www.cleanpower.org
- Canadian Wind Energy Association | www.canwea.ca
- Windustry | www.windustry.org
- World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) | www.wwindea.org