DOE Selects 53 Wind Projects for $8.5M

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday announced the selection of 53 new wind energy projects for up to $8.5 million in total DOE funding. 

DOE Secretary Steven Chu made the announcement by video at the WindPower 2009 Conference in Chicago this week.

Awards were announced in four topic areas: market acceptance, environmental impact, workforce development and distributed wind technology.  Selections of two additional topic areas (supporting wind turbine research and testing; and transmission analysis, planning and assessments) will be announced at a later date. Award amounts listed below are subject to negotiation.

Market Acceptance

• American Planning Association (Chicago, IL) – Community Planning Strategies for Successful Wind Energy Implementation –  $100,000
  
• Cadmus Group, Inc. (Watertown, MA) – Analysis Tool for Distributed Wind Technologies (Watertown, MA) – $476,831
• Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (Sacramento, CA) – Building Transmission Capacity in the Western Interconnect to Support a Low Carbon Future –  $100,000
• Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (Harrisburg, PA) – Mid-Atlantic Regional Wind Energy Institute as Part of Wind Powering America Activities – $94,000
• Clean Energy States Alliance, Inc. (Montpelier, VT) – Wind Powering America State Outreach Project – $100,000 Consensus Building Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) – Building State Capacity to Advance Wind Energy Through the Best Practices of Collaborative Planning and Siting – $99,785
• eFormative Options, LLC (Vashon, WA) – Power Through Policy: ‘Best Practices’ for Cost-Effective Distributed Wind – $200,000
• Energy Northwest (Richland, WA) – 20% Wind by 2030:  Overcoming the Challenges – $100,000
• Environmental Law Institute (Washington, DC) – Model State Enabling Legislation for Wind Power Siting – $50,000
• Great Lakes Commission (Ann Arbor, MI) – Great Lakes Wind Collaborative:  Best Practices to Accelerate Wind Power in the Great Lakes Region and Beyond – $99,740
• Illinois State University (Normal, IL) – Topic 2A:  Illinois Wind Workers Group – $99,941
• The Land Institute (Salina, KS) – The Southwest Power Pool Collaborative – $100,000
• The Mountain Institute, Inc. (Morgantown, WV) – Overcoming Barriers to Wind Development in Appalachian Coal Country – $99,776
• North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) – Wind Powering America:  The Next Steps in North Carolina – $99,347
• Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK) – Wind Powering Oklahoma – $87,296
• Power Advocate, Inc. (Boston, MA) – Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges to Wind Power in the U.S. – $100,000
• Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC (Rockville, MD) – Mid-Atlantic Wind – Overcoming the Barriers:  Topic Area 2A: Wind Powering America –  $100,000
• RENEW Wisconsin (Madison, WI) – Sowing the Seeds for a Bountiful Harvest: Shaping the Rules and Creating the Tools for Wisconsin’s Next Generation of Wind Farms – $93,348
• The South Carolina Energy Office (Columbia, SC) – Wind Powering America:  A New Wind Economy for South Carolina and Georgia – $109,810
• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (Knoxville, TN) – Tennessee Valley and Eastern Kentucky Wind Working Group – $100,000
• State Of Montana, Office of the Governor (Helena, MT) – Montana’s Response To "20% Wind by 2030:  Overcoming the Challenges" – $100,000
• Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC (Framingham, MA) – New England Wind Energy Education Project – $99,746
• University Of Delaware (Newark, DE) – Empowering Coastal States and Utilities Through Model Offshore Wind Legislation and Outreach – $99,967
• West Virginia Division of Energy (Charleston, WV) – 20% Wind by 2030:  Overcoming the Challenges in West Virginia – $100,000
• Windustry (Minneapolis, MN) – Regional Community Wind Conferences – $100,000

Environmental Impact

• Bat Conservation International, Inc. (Austin, TX) – Win(d) – Win(d) Solutions for Wind Developers and Bats – $118,800
• Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL) – Are Flying Wildlife Attracted to (or Do they Avoid) Wind Turbines? – $180,835
• Deepwater Wind Holdings, LLC (Hauppauge, NY) – Block Island Offshore Wind Project Bird and Bat Monitoring Program – $295,360
• Jones & Stokes Associates, Inc. (Sacramento, CA) – An Analytical Impact Assessment Framework for Wildlife to Inform the Siting and Permitting of Wind Energy Facilities -$93,340
• Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) – Environmental Impacts of Wind Power Development on Population Biology of Greater Prairie Chickens – $299,998
• Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) – Bat and Avian Migration Along the Lake Michigan Coastline:  A Pilot Study to Inform Wind Turbine Siting – $99,951
• The Nature Conservancy (Minneapolis, MN) – Energy by Design: Science-Based Wind Energy Siting – $95,210
• Pandion Systems, Inc. (Gainesville, FL) – A Habitat-Based Wind-Wildlife Risk Tool With Application to the Upper Great Plains Region:  Collisions and Habitat Displacement – $294,491
• Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX) – Assessment of Lesser Prairie Chicken Population Distribution in Relation to Potential Wind Energy Developments – $146,334
• Versar, Inc. (Columbia, MD)  – Spatially-Explicit Bat Impact Screening Tool for Turbine Siting – $142,916
• Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (Cheyenne, WY) – Greater Sage-Grouse Telemetry Study for the Simpson Ridge Wind Resource Area – $100,000
• Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI) – Genetic Approaches to Understanding the Population-Level Impact of Wind Energy Development on Migratory Bats – $99,933

Workforce Development

• Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) – Power System Operation and Planning for Enhanced Wind Generation Penetration – Collaborative Work Force Development – $400,000
• The Board of Regents of the UW System (Madison, WI) – A Continuing Education Short Course and Engineering Curriculum to Accelerate Workforce Development in Wind Power Plant Design, Construction, and Operations – $119,135    
• DNV Global Energy Concepts Inc. (Seattle, WA) – Knowledge Boosting Program for New Wind Industry Professionals – $269,691
• Lakeshore Technical College (Cleveland, WI) – POWER – Purposeful Partnerships Coordinating Wind Education Resources – $199,236
• Laramie County Community College (Cheyenne, WY) – Laramie County Community College: Utility-Scale Wind Energy Technology – $198,594
• Oklahoma Department of Commerce (Oklahoma City, OK) – Development of a National Safety Standard for Wind Turbine Maintenance Technicians – $400,000
• Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) – Wind Energy Workforce Development – Engineering, Science, and Technology – $398,456
• Southwest Applied Technology College (Cedar City, UT) – Southern Utah Wind Power Educational Consortium for Workforce Development – $50,000  
• Texas State Technical College West Texas (Sweetwater, TX) – Valley Wind Program – $198,206
• University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) – Offshore Wind Energy Systems Engineering Course Development – $252,687
• University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) – Integration of Wind Energy Systems into Power Engineering Education Programs at UW-Madison – $399,931
• University Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI) – Southeast Wisconsin Wind Energy Educational Collaborative – $330,184
• University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY) – Fellowships for Students Pursuing Interdisciplinary M.S. with a Focus in Wind Energy – $195,703

Distributed Wind Technology

• Cascade Engineering, Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI) – Cascade Engineering, Inc. Application – Swift Wind Turbine – $100,000
• TALCO Electronic (San Diego, CA) – Proven Energy New 6kW Wind Turbine Testing Solicitation – $34,518
• Viryd Technologies (San Diego, CA) – Testing the Viryd 8000 to Verify a Lower Cost of Energy – $65,000