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Wind for Schools

Larry Flowers

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

AWEA Board of Directors

October 31, 2007 – Carlsbad, CA

“When you lose the school,” said a retired teacher, “you’ve lost the town.”

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

Cape Cod Regional Technical High School

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

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

Walsenburg, CO

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

Milford, Utah

XYZ Company Sponsor

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

• SD, NE, MT, KS, ID, CO
• State Facilitators
• WAC Leaders
• Teachers
• NREL/WPA Staff
• NEED
• Small Wind industry reps

Tom Potter

Idaho:

Brian Jackson

Kansas:

Dan Nagengast

Montana:

Mike Costanti

Nebraska:

Dan McGuire

South Dakota:

Steve Wegman

• 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

Boise State University

Kansas State University,

Montana State University

University of Nebraska

South Dakota State University

• 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

• “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
• Benjamin Franklin

Carpe Ventem

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