Events

This three-day conference will focus on current debt and tax credit equity structures for wind financing; up-to-date information on pending legislation and current federal and state policies for wind energy; permitting, zoning, environmental, and other regulatory roadblocks; best practices for financing, warranties, and debt and tax structuring, including addressing investor concerns; special issues and tactics for locally owned, locally beneficial community wind projects; and methods for raising capital to fuel wind energy companies.

Topics will include:

• International Trends
• Innovative Airfoils
• Adaptive Control
• Materials
• Manufacturing
• Design/Analysis Codes
• Testing
• Distributed Wind

This workshop focuses on the renewable energy development opportunities available to tribes in a specific region. This interactive course is designed to explore strategic energy planning and energy options to meet the long-term energy goals of your Tribe. The workshop is focused on: 1) renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency concepts; 2) renewable energy project development; 3) organization and legal framework for development; and 4) financing options leading toward sustainable tribal communities.

This annual two-day conference unites industry leaders and public officials with a stake in the Northeast energy markets to discuss and debate critical industry issues. Concerns over climate change and an increased desire to control carbon emissions have spurred debate over an appropriate fuel mix to meet increasing regional demand. Many questions remain unanswered. How should more renewables and demand side management policies be encouraged? How can market price signals be delivered promptly and efficiently to end users? How can energy facility siting be encouraged, without sacrificing environmental protection? How can resource adequacy requirements be met given growing regional demand and aging electric generation facilities? Finally, how can an adequate transmission and distribution infrastructure be maintained, allowing benefits from solving these issues to flow to all end users? The implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the carbon tax debate further complicate these concerns. This conference will update attendees on the search for solutions and offer insight into the quandary of balancing energy supply needs with climate change concerns.

Discover techniques to involve the public, determine public opinion and gain acceptance for renewable energy projects and other utility operations and plans. The webinar will also include an overview of DEED’s Public Participation for Consumer Owned Utilities: An Implementation Guide.

Join us for this day-long conference as we focus on distributed energy solutions such as customer sited combined heat and power projects, district heating systems, community wind plants, targeted energy efficiency measures, building local bio-fuel supplies, and much more.

Organized by leaders in the wind energy industry, WINDPOWER 2008 offers 3 days of conference sessions, an interactive tradeshow of wind energy products and services, and numerous networking opportunities. 

Clean Technology 2008 is a multi-disciplinary and multi-sector conference on global sustainability addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies, and clean business practices. The mission of Clean Technology 2008 is to bring together the entire Clean Technology ecosystem with the goal of accelerating the flow of technologies from the research phase to the viable market phase.

This one-day course is a prequel to the Midwest Renewable Energy Association wind systems workshops and for people who have an interest in residential-size wind systems for their home or business. This course will inform students as to what wind energy is, how it works and what it can do for you. Topics will include: wind resources, basic system components, system types, turbine types, applications, and tower types.

This workshop will examine the design considerations of manufacturing a wind generator. Components will be studied including their structure, function, materials, how they operate, and reliability to understand what choices various manufacturers have made for their products and why. All of the commercially available residential-sized wind equipment on the market will be considered. This workshop will help wind site assessors, equipment dealers, installers and homeowners ferret out the pros and cons of the wind generator options in the market place.

This workshop focuses on the renewable energy development opportunities available to tribes in a specific region. This interactive course is designed to explore strategic energy planning and energy options to meet the long-term energy goals of your Tribe. The workshop is focused on: 1) renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency concepts; 2) renewable energy project development; 3) organization and legal framework for development; and 4) financing options leading toward sustainable tribal communities.

Participants in this workshop will learn to design and install residential wind systems up to 100kWh/day in capacity. The workshop will cover system sizing, site analysis, installation and safety issues, and hardware specification. Learn about the different commercially available residential wind turbines, how they work, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Students will learn to estimate electrical production of a turbine given the parameters of the site, tower and turbine.

Integrating offshore wind into the U.S. energy picture.

Ninth annual event covering renewable energy and energy efficiency; featuring nationally prominent speakers and workshops on various topics.

Covering financial trends, debt terms, tax equities and power output predictions.

Attend this practical new course to:

• Grasp the fundamentals of wind power
• Gain insights into considerations pertinent to wind power plant design
• Learn effective design solutions

Attendees will include:

• Wind farm developers
• Electric utility design engineers
• Electric utility planning engineers
• Consulting engineers
• Project managers
• Managers of design departments
• Engineering technicians and others

The purpose of the meeting is to provide a forum for stakeholders and the general public to hear about and discuss the most recent research conducted related to wind power development and wildlife. Examine what has been learned, discuss methods for minimizing or mitigating wind energy's adverse/undesirable impacts on wildlife, identify questions about wind power development opportunities and impacts related to wildlife, and identify gaps in knowledge and research needs.