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Wind for Schools. Larry Flowers National Renewable Energy Laboratory AWEA Board of Directors October 31, 2007 – Carlsbad, CA. The Depopulation of the Great Plains. “When you lose the school,” said a retired teacher, “you’ve lost the town.”. Windy Rural Areas Need Economic Development.
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Wind for Schools
Larry Flowers
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
AWEA Board of Directors
October 31, 2007 – Carlsbad, CA
The Depopulation of the Great Plains
“When you lose the school,” said a retired teacher, “you’ve lost the town.”
Create tangible symbol of a different energy future in rural America
Stimulate wind engineering education in universities
20% wind analysis - 3M job-years of trained workers needed over the next 20 years
Schools are central to achieving these goals
training scientists, technicians, businesspeople, decision-makers, and teachers of the future
training opinion makers and future employees
Wind for SchoolsCape Cod Regional Technical High School
Wind for Rural Schools
About 30% of the nation’s 94,000 K-12 public schools are rural.
They serve 27% of the 47M K-12 public school students
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Updated: 10-2007
Low-cost replicable system
Assist community and local utility to implement a sustainable school wind project
Work with AWEA/NEED on K-12 curriculum
Build in-state capacity to provide TA for community-scale projects
Work with State Universities on college-level program and curricula
Wind for Schools – Project ApproachWalsenburg, CO
Economics
Simple: so it fits with school administration
Getting rural utilities to participate
Starting up an university technical assistance center
Connecting with and selecting candidate schools
Curriculum development
Wind for Schools – ChallengesMilford, Utah
RE Grant Funds
WTG Manufacturer
G.T.
State Energy Office
WTG
$
$
$
Green Tags Marketer
DOE
$
T/A
T/A
WAC
$
Co-op/Local Utility
T/A
$
T/A
T/A
$
D
NREL/WPA
T/A
School Administration
Science Teacher
& Students
D – Data
$ – Funds Flow
– Knowledge
C – Coordination
G.T. – Green Tags
WTG – Wind Turbine
T/A – Technical Assistance
C
$
C
C
Community
C
State Facilitator
Wind for Schools Summit 2007
- SD, NE, MT, KS, ID, CO
- State Facilitators
- WAC Leaders
- Teachers
- NREL/WPA Staff
- NEED
- Small Wind industry reps
Colorado:
Tom Potter
Idaho:
Brian Jackson
Kansas:
Dan Nagengast
Montana:
Mike Costanti
Nebraska:
Dan McGuire
South Dakota:
Steve Wegman
Wind for Schools: State Facilitators- Engage with the variety of stakeholders needed for successful school projects: community, school, science teachers, local co-op/utility, WAC, NREL
- Help assemble financial package that will work
- Goal: Install 3 to 5 systems per year at rural schools
Colorado State University
Boise State University
Kansas State University,
Montana State University
University of Nebraska
South Dakota State University
Wind for Schools: Wind Application Centers- Training center to educate engineers in wind analysis and applications
- Data analysis, technical assistance, implementation support
- Become the state source for technical assistance for community wind
Wind for Schools
- “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
- Benjamin Franklin
www.windpoweringamerica.gov
