Community Wind & Wind Energy and the Environment

• Coop & Community Wind
• Electricity Rebels (Stromrebellen)
• Landowner Easements & Royalty Payments
• Wind Energy & the Environment
• Reviews
• En Français

Coop & Community Wind

• New Brunswick Community Wind Projects Getting to the Tipping Point--August 10, 2010 report by New Brunswick Department of Energy on a proposed community wind project. . .
• German Renewable Energy Experience Offers Lessons for U.S. Farmers--The report also calls on rural communities to develop strong stakeholder networks, noting that German farms have a network of actors, such as community members and cooperatives, that have helped make them successful “energy farmers.” . .
• Energy Democracy: Community-Scale Green Energy Solutions--Calls for support of Feed-in Tariffs to democratize electricity supply. . .
• NREL: Economic Development Impacts of Community Wind Projects: A April 2009 Review and Empirical Evaluation by E. Lantz and S. Tegen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Status of Social Economy Provision of Wind Electric Energy in Alberta by Julie MacArthur
• Presentation by Paul Gipe for Comité de Liaison Energie Renouvelables, Paris, May 7, 2010: Small Wind in North America, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly; Real Urban Wind & the Community Power Revolution
• Lessons & Concepts for Advancing Community Wind by the Minnesota Project, December, 2009
• Economic Development Impacts of Community Wind Projects: A April 2009 Review and Empirical Evaluation NREL/CP-500-45555
• Wind of Change: Enabling Power to the People by Carolyn Jack, Geniocity
• Tax Reform and Community Based Renewable Energy by John Farrell, ILSR--The federal tax credits for renewable energy have been a major barrier to widespread ownership of renewable energy. The production tax credit, for example, can only be taken against passive income, a type of income that very few of us actually earn. . .
• Community Power Empowers by by Stefan Gsänger WWEA (2008)
• In Germany, ruddy-cheeked farmers achieve (green) energy independence (Christian Science Monitor, August 21, 2008)
• Gipe Receives 2008 World Wind Energy Award
• The Island in the Wind: A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions (Samsø) by Elizabeth Kolbert, the New Yorker (2008)
• New Brunswick Community Wind Report and Comments by Paul Gipe
• Comments on New Brunswick's Community Wind Initiative by Paul Gipe
• Community Wind: Locally owned wind turbines in your community by Greg Pahl (Mothern Earth News June-July 2008)
• Advantages of Community Energy Projects by Tam Hunt, Community Environmental Council (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
• Co-operative Development in a Competitive World by Russ Christianson
• Wind Energy Cooperative Development in Anglophone Canada (March 2007)
• The Cost of the Iraq War and the Lost Opportunities for Development of Renewable Energy (1% to 38% of supply)
• Reaching Community Wind's Potential by Windustry
• Community Wind: A Review of Select State and Federal Policy Incentives by Farmers Legal Action Group
• People Power, Danish-style: Why European and American winds blow in opposite directions by NRDC
• German Solar PV for free Says Walter Fischer
• Freiburg's Solar Siedlung and Plus Energy Houses
• Dardesheim: Germany's Renewable Energy City
• Paderborn and the Sintfeld Community Wind Project
• Renewable Energy Bonds for Energy Independence by Mike Kendall
• American Energy Independence through Cooperative Investment in Wind Energy by Mike Kendall
• New Association of Wind Cooperatives Forms in Quebec
• Brief Summary of World Solar PV Market Stats 2006
• Toronto's WindShare Coop
• Le Haut des Ailes: France's First Large-Scale Cooperative Wind Plant
• Vingesus--Whisper of Wings a Review
• Powering Ontario's Communities: OSEA's Report on Advanced Renewable Tariffs for Ontario
• Danish Wind Co-ops Can Show Us the Way by Russ Christianson (pdf)
• Bürgerbeteiligung (Coop) Windenergiepark Udenhausen-Mariendorf
• Farmer Noud de Schutter
• Community wind power in Europe and in the UK by David Toke
• Explaining wind power planning outcomes: Some findings from a study in England and Wales by David Toke
• Wind power in the UK: how planning conditions and financial arrangements affect outcomes by David Toke
• Community Wind Power Ownership Schemes in Europe and Their Relevance to the United States by Mark Bolinger; LBNL -48357
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2005 Windmill-Wildflower Hike Tehachapi, California

• A Survey of State Support for Community Wind Power Development by Mark Bolinger; LBNL
• Let the Sun Shine on Ontario's Electricity Bill
• Farming the Wind for Electricity
• Community Wind:The Third Way
• Ontario Canada and Community Wind
• Island to Build Scotland's First Community-Owned Wind Farm
• Local Investment in Renewable Energy (Predac pdf)
• Community Wind: Margam Wind Energy Clusters
• Wind Energy for the Rest of US: A Brief Proposal for a New Wind Energy Association in the United States
• Financing Distributed Wind Development 1997
• Community-Owned Wind Development in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands

Electricity Rebels (Stromrebellen)

• Strom Rebels of Schönau: The Village That Built Their Own Solar Utility
• Samsø: Denmark's Renewable Energy Island
• Observations on Bürgerbeteiligung--German Share Cooperatives--by Henning Holst
• Josef Pesch-Strom Rebel of Freiburg
• Wolfgang Paulsen, Bohmstedt, and Butendiek

Landowner Easements & Royalty Payments

• Community Wind Associations in Wyoming or How To Get a Better Deal (NY Times)
• Farmers’ Guide to Wind Energy: Legal Issues in Farming the Wind by FLAG (Minnesota)
• Ontario Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy and Land Leases
• Landowner Leases & Royalty Payments
• Wind Turbine Envy and Land Lease Pooling
• Royalty Revenue Calculator for Wind Energy.wb3
• Royalty Revenue Calculator for Wind Energy.xls
• Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy by the Izaak Walton League

Wind Energy & the Environment

• 2010 Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi--The Kern-Kaweah chapter of the Sierra Club will lead a hike on the Pacific Crest Trail at 9:00 am Saturday May 8th, 2009 near Tehachapi, California. . .
• Audubon's Position on Wind Power--Audubon strongly supports properly-sited wind power as a clean alternative energy source that reduces the threat of global warming. . .
• Public Safety and Setbacks
• Opposition to Windpower Pollutes Climate Policy by Michael Vickerman
• Great Lakes Offshore Wind: Greenpeace interview with Paul Gipe (mp4)
• Falling in Love with Wind: How a small farm town traded its dairy cows for renewable energy by NRDC
• Energy Balance of Wind Turbines
• The bizarre dance of wind power: Local opponents and right-wing think tanks by Erik Curren
• Éoliennes par Philippe Olliver--a Review (includes commentary on anti-wind rumors)
• The fierce urgency of now: Yes, windmills and dams deface the landscape but the climate crisis demands immediate action by Bill McKibben
• Pro Wind Alliance--A voice of reason in the British Isles not connected to any trade association.
• Why I hate Wind Farms and Think There Should be More of Them by Peter Harper
• The Wind in My Sails by Peter Harper
• Peter Harper's Response to Rob Collister's cri de coeur Regarding Wind Farms
• Coal's High Environmental & Social Cost in Ontario--a Review by Paul Gipe
• Windmill-Wildflower Hike on Pacific Crest Trail in the Tehachapi Pass
• Sobering Altamont Bird Report Issued
• Energy for Life: The Pursuit of an Ethical Energy Policy
• Sierra Club Kansas Chapter Position on Wind Energy by J. Scott Smith
• Draft WWEA Best Practice Guidelines
• Wind Energy "Best Practice" Guides
• BLM Wind Energy EIS Scoping Questions

FESA Bürgerbeteiligung near Freiburg, Germany

• Birds, Cuisinarts, Wind Turbines, and the Sierra Club
• Sierra Club Wind Siting Advisory Document
• Sierra Club's Southern California Regional Conservation Committee Wind Energy Policy
• Erosion Gullies in the Tehachapi Pass: An Example of Improper Wind Development
• Time to Clean Up the Mess in Kern County
• Windiger Protest
• Design as if People Matter: Aesthetic Guidelines for the Wind Industry
• Tilting at Windmills: Public Opinion Toward Wind Energy
• Wind Energy -- The Breath of Life or the Kiss of Death: Contemporary Wind Mortality Rates
• Wind Turbines and Parks
• Removal and Restoration Costs in California: Who Will Pay?
• Wind Turbines & the Landscape: Architecture & Aesthetics by Frode Birk Nielsen
• The Landscape Impact and Visual Design of Windfarms by Caroline Stanton
• North American Green's Erosion Control Software

Reviews

• The Citizen Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis

En Français

• Le Grand Livre de l'Éolien par Paul Gipe
• EPR ou ENR: Abécédaire pour y voir clair
• L’éolien: Pour qui souffle le vent?
• Éoliennes par Philippe Olliver--a Review
• La Nouvel Politique Energetique Eolien en Quebec
• Accroître Les Possibilités en Matière D'Energie Renouvelable en Ontario
• Le Haut des Ailes: Premier parc éolien Français à propriété communautaire
• Paul Gipe Colloque sur L'Energie Eolienne 8 Decembre 2005 Rimouski, Quebec, Version Francaise.pdf (6.5 mb)
• Pour la première fois en France, des particuliers se sont personnellement et financièrement impliqués dans un projet de parc éolien par ADEME
• Manuel Préliminaire D'Étude D'Impact Éoliens.pdf
• Guide de L'Étude D'Impact sur L'Environment des Parcs Éoliens
• Les Protocoles et Études D'Impact Applicables Lors de L'Installation D'Aérogénérateurs en Lorraine du Centre Ornithologique Lorrain
• Eiffel et Zéphirin Phébus même combat by Paul NEAU

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