Manufacturing tax credit guidance released
Wind advocates protest cost allocation in Midwest
Court overturns PJM postage-stamp rate design
Oregon governor vetoes RES-weakening bill
Composite Technology sells DeWind turbine unit
Nordex turbines fully operational in PA
SDG&E transmission plans call for ’renewable energy hub’
Survey shows Texans favor renewables
RFP: NV Energy utilities seek renewables
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IRS, DOE Release Application Information for Manufacturing Tax Credit

On August 13 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Internal Revenue Service released the much-anticipated application guidance and evaluation criteria for the 30% “advanced energy” manufacturing investment tax credit that was part of the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year.

Full information on the guidance, which came via Notice 2009-72, is available at www.energy.gov/recovery/48C.htm. AWEA will host a members-only Webcast on Thursday, August 20, at 2 p.m. to discuss details of the credit (details below).

The Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit, commonly known as the Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, was a provision in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Under the provision, companies can receive a tax credit of up to 30% of their investment in new, re-equipped and expanding manufacturing facilities that provide equipment for wind turbines and other green technologies. The program has been allocated $2.3 billion.

AWEA welcomed the release of the information. “Wind power is a bright source of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. today,” said CEO Denise Bode. “With this incentive and with the right policies in place, it can become an even much larger source of jobs tomorrow.”

Bode noted that the share of domestically manufactured wind turbine components has risen to 50% in the wind turbines installed in the U.S. in 2008, up from less than 30% in 2005. “The domestic share can increase further with the stimulus funding now beginning to flow, coupled with a strong, long-term policy commitment—if Congress passes a strong renewable electricity standard,” she said.

In 2008 alone, 55 wind energy manufacturing facilities were announced, opened or expanded. While the current economic conditions have dampened demand, the tax credits are expected to boost the opening of new facilities.

Under the guidance, projects will be ranked by DOE through four criteria, each of which will be considered equally. Those criteria include direct and indirect job creation during the credit period, net impact in avoiding or reducing air pollutants and emissions of greenhouse gases, potential for innovation and commercial deployment, and shortest project time from certification to completion. Overall, projects must be completed within four years. In considering the applications, DOE will also strive for diversity geographically, technologically, and in size.

Interested parties must submit separate applications to DOE and the IRS. Preliminary applications to DOE must be received between August 14 and September 16. Final applications are due October 16, and applicants will be notified of their status in January. Full application guidelines are available at the website above. An AWEA summary of the credit is available on AWEA’s Web site at http://www.awea.org/legislative/pdf/Manufacturing_ITC_Summary.pdf.

For more information on the AWEA members-only Webcast, go to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/913351705.

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Transmission Policy
Transmission Cost Allocation Proposal Would Threaten Win Development: AWEA, Wind on the Wires

AWEA and its regional partner Wind on the Wires (WOW) on August 13 filed a protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging rejection of a proposal from the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) that the two wind advocacy groups say would discourage the development of wind resources in a region termed “the Saudi Arabia of wind.”

MISO claims that its current cost allocation rules produce—in limited circumstances—inequitable results for a few transmission owners. In particular, the transmission system operator maintains that the existing cost-allocation method can introduce high costs to a small group of transmission owners with facilities in the vicinity of, but whose load is not proportionally benefited by, upgrades to the system necessary to accommodate interconnection requests from generators.

But in the name of addressing that problem impacting only a small fraction of transmission owners in MISO’s footprint, the proposed change would overhaul the cost allocation for the entire region without any justification for removing costs from the majority of transmission owners and imposing them on generators. AWEA and WOW argued that MISO has not demonstrated how its proposal fairly assigns costs among beneficiaries from such upgrades, the broadly distributed benefits of which include improved reliability and reduced power prices. The proposal, AWEA and WOW said, instead assigns virtually all those costs to the next generator attempting to connect to the grid.

Such a reallocation would nearly double the cost for a wind facility to connect to the power system in the Midwest, potentially forcing many developers to pull the plug on tens of billions of dollars of investment they have planned for the region, according to AWEA and WOW.

“The proposed policy change is like requiring the next car entering a congested highway to pay the full cost of adding a new lane,” said WOW Director Beth Soholt. “Obviously such a policy is unworkable, which in our case means that wind projects will not be able to connect to the grid.”

“At a time when the wind industry is one of the few bright spots of the U.S. economy, having created 35,000 new jobs last year, this policy is saying the Midwest is becoming less friendly for the wind business, and that will clearly have an impact on not only wind development but manufacturing and supply-chain jobs throughout the region,” said AWEA CEO Denise Bode.

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Transmission Policy
Court Decision Will Likely Make It Harder to Build High-Voltage Transmission

Minnesota Power is purchasing 33 units of Siemens Energy’s SWT-2.3-101 In a decision that could significantly threaten efforts to build major new transmission facilities, a divided three-judge panel for a U.S. appeals court on August 6 overturned a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decision approving the PJM Interconnection, LLC’s (PJM) postage-stamp rate design for new transmission lines operating at voltages of 500-kV or more. The panel remanded the case to FERC.

The decision, coming out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, could have ramifications for FERC’s ability to broadly spread transmission costs because it requires, as the dissenting opinion states, FERC “to monetize the benefits . . . in order to share the costs.”

A postage-stamp rate design, which is strongly favored by the wind industry as being fair and equitable, requires all transmission service customers in a region to pay a uniform rate, per unit of service, based on the aggregated costs of all transmission facilities in the region. Under PJM’s methodology, all utilities contribute a pro rata share of the costs of these facilities.

According to the majority opinion, written by Judge Richard Posner, allowing PJM to allocate the costs of the new high-voltage transmission facilities on a postage-stamp basis violates cost-causation principles because FERC failed to consider the disproportionate impact of the policy on utilities in western PJM and to detail the benefits those utilities will receive. The court held that FERC cannot approve a pricing scheme requiring a group of utilities to pay for transmission from which its members derive little or no benefit. The test laid out by the court allows FERC to approve a pricing decision if the benefits are at least “roughly commensurate” with the utilities’ share of total electricity sales in a region. Additionally, FERC must make pricing approval decisions based upon “substantial evidence in the record.”

The court stressed that it is not asking FERC to calculate benefits “to the last penny, or for that matter to the last million or ten million or perhaps hundred million dollars,” but rather to articulate a “plausible reason to believe that the benefits are at least roughly commensurate with those utilities’ share of total electricity sales in PJM’s region.”

Nevertheless, the decision will likely make it very difficult for FERC to broadly allocate the costs of new backbone facilities without establishing evidence that costs to a zone are outweighed by benefits. The decision heightens the need for specific Congressional authorization regarding cost allocation.

Judge Richard Cudahy, who penned a dissent, disagreed with his two colleagues on the issue, citing the urgent need to upgrade the nation’s aging power grid as well as the difficulty of trying to identify who would benefit from a new transmission line and by how much. “While an effort to identify specific benefits to specific utilities is a traditional rate design approach and may be appropriate for most electric plant facilities, it may miss the forest and focus on the trees when applied to very high voltage ‘backbone’ facilities,” Cudahy wrote. “However theoretically attractive may be the principle of ‘beneficiary pays,’ an unbending devotion to this rule in every instance can only ignite controversy, sustain arguments and discourage construction while the nation suffers from inadequate and unreliable transmission.”

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The States
Vetoes by Oregon Governor Keep RES, Tax Credit Intact

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) vetoed two pieces of legislation—a bill that would have eroded the state’s renewable electricity standard (known in the state as a renewable portfolio standard, or RPS) as well as a bill to eliminate a tax credit that supports renewables.

Kulongoski exercised his authority by returning the bills to the Oregon secretary of state unsigned and disapproved. House Bill 2940 would have diminished the value of Oregon’s RPS by adding additional sources of generation—primarily biomass but also including some municipal solid waste and hydrogen—that would count toward the standard.

“The RPS is a great economic generator, and already has produced great environmental benefits,” the governor wrote in a letter accompanying the return of the bill. “I cannot support reducing the standard and thereby, the economic and environmental benefits.”

Kulongoski committed to working with the state legislature and stakeholders in the biomass industry to develop a policy for consideration in the February 2010 session that both creates economic opportunity for biomass facilities, particularly in rural Oregon, while upholding the original intent of the RES, which is to generate new renewable energy in the state.

“We must maintain the growth and momentum in our renewable energy sector at this critical juncture, not slow it,” the governor wrote. “In that context, I hope to work with legislators and stakeholders to develop consensus on how to expand the number of megawatts required to be generated from renewable energy resources under the RPS while also addressing, in a more comprehensive way, concerns from individual renewable resource sectors that seek to become eligible for the RPS.”

“Renewables advocates are grateful for the governor’s strong leadership on these important issues,” said Rachel Shimshak, director of the Renewable Northwest Project, an AWEA regional partner. “We hope that any legislative outcome in the future will simultaneously preserve the RES and institute the proper incentives for other important generation sources such as biomass.”

House Bill 2472, meanwhile, would have reduced the state’s Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) cap from $10 million to $3.5 million. Such a reduction “goes too far” and would put Oregon at a competitive disadvantage in growing the state’s renewable energy sector, resulting in fewer jobs and renewable energy sources, according to the governor. “The BETC has aided the renewable energy industry, which in turn has provided much needed jobs while transitioning the state towards cleaner, renewable energy sources,” the governor said in his letter accompanying the bill’s return. “Oregon now leads the nation in the percentage of jobs related to green energy. I cannot support a bill that would scale back our support for one of the few growing sectors of our economy at a time when encouraging new economic opportunity is so critically important.”

Agreeing, however, that it may be time to reexamine the incentive levels of the credit and “first gather the facts,” Kulongoski signed legislation directing the state’s Department of Energy to conduct an economic analysis on renewable energy projects that qualify for the BETC.

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Mergers & Acquisitions
Composite Technology Sells DeWind Turbine Business to Daewoo

Composite Technology Corp. (CTC) reached an agreement to sell its wind turbine-producing subsidiary, DeWind, Inc., to Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME), for $46.5 million.

The sale, which is expected to close in the next 30 days, includes substantially all of the operating assets and liabilities of DeWind. As part of the transaction, most of the DeWind employees will move to DSME, the world’s second largest shipbuilder. DeWind, whose product line includes 2-MW and 1.25-MW turbines, assembles its 2-MW D8.2 turbines at the TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co. plant in Texas. Some of those turbines have been shipped to South America, showing wind power’s ability to buck the off-shoring trend that has crippled other industries within the U.S. manufacturing sector.

As part of the sale, the contract manufacturing agreement between TECO-Westinghouse and DeWind will transition to DSME; thus, the relationship between TECO-Westinghouse and the wind turbine manufacturer is expected to continue.

CTC said that the sale will allow it to focus more on its core transmission-related businesses.

“I am pleased that a world class company has recognized the excellent design with leading-edge technology of the DeWind turbine,” CTC Chairman and CEO Benton Wilcoxon said in a statement. “Furthermore, with DSME’s strength and manufacturing expertise, I believe that the DeWind team and its products will be able to accelerate growth plans. This transaction will allow CTC to focus its resources on its core business of innovative high performance electrical transmission products.”

“This transaction will help DSME enter the global wind energy market and to establish a strong presence in that market,” said Sang Tae Nam, DSME’s president and CEO. “We will leverage DSME’s world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities and DeWind’s technology and experience to become one of the world leaders in the wind energy sector.”

RBS Securities, an affiliate of The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, acted as exclusive financial advisor to DeWind. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, acted as legal counsel to CTC and DeWind. Macquarie Securities Korea, Ltd., acted as financial advisors to DSME. Reed Smith, LLP, acted as U.S. legal counsel to DSME, and Shin & Kim acted as Korean legal counsel to DSME.

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Project News
EverPower’s Highland Wind Facility Online with Nordex Turbines

The 25 Nordex 2.5-MW wind turbines are now online and fully operational at EverPower Renewable’s Highland wind farm in Pennsylvania, making the project the largest one to use turbines produced by the fairly recent U.S. market entrant.

The 62.5-MW wind farm, located in Cambria County in the southwestern part of the state, can supply power for approximately 20,000 households per year, while eliminating 115,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to Nordex.

Meanwhile, construction is underway at Nordex USA’s new nacelle production plant in Jonesboro, Ark., where Nordex expects to assemble its 2.5-MW units for the U.S. market.

“While new to the U.S., Nordex’s 2.5-MW product family is widely used in Europe with over 1,000 units installed,” noted EverPower CEO Jim Spencer. “The 2.5-MW turbine allows us to achieve a higher power density in the land-constrained areas in the Northeast, where we have a large development pipeline. We are delighted with our decision and look forward to utilizing Nordex wind turbines at additional locations now under development.”

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Transmission
SDG&E Plans Transmission to Link Renewables to Load

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced plans for a “renewable energy hub” that includes a new substation and other transmission enhancements to help connect some of the region’s best renewable resources with the utility’s massive consumer base.

At the center of the plan is a new substation the utility is calling “ECO” because it is to be located in East County, a key region of largely untapped renewable wind energy resources. The substation would allow electricity from future wind farms and other renewable energy projects to be transmitted via the existing Southwest Powerlink transmission line. To help access the renewable energy, ECO would be linked, via a new 13-mile line, to a 50-year-old substation that would be rebuilt.

The plans were submitted for approval to the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday.

The new substation complements the company’s biggest renewables-oriented transmission project, the much-anticipated (and approved) $1.9 billion Sunrise Powerlink.

“Experts agree that a lack of electrical infrastructure is the most significant barrier to tapping into the vast potential for renewable energy in this region,” said Debra Reed, president and CEO for San Diego Gas &Electric. “This project will serve as the backbone for delivering renewable energy from the mountain region east of San Diego County for decades to come.”

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has identified portions of eastern San Diego County, Imperial County and the northern Baja California region as having some of the highest concentrations in the country of potential energy from wind, sun, and geothermal sources.

The newly announced plans also will connect such wind farms as the one being developed on the Campo reservation. In June the Campo Band of Mission Indians of the Kumeyaay Nation, Invenergy, and SDG&E jointly announced a plan to build a wind energy project of up to 160 MW on tribal lands.

“SDG&E’s ECO project is going to ensure that renewable energy development like our wind project and many others become a reality,” said Monique La Chappa, Campo chairwoman. “We are excited to expand our leadership in developing renewable energy on tribal lands and look forward to our project bringing green jobs and clean air benefits to all of San Diego County.”

According to SDG&E, it already has secured 26% of its power supply for 2012 from renewable energy resources, which is well ahead of the voluntary commitment the company made to supply 33% of its power from clean energy sources by 2020.

“This type of infrastructure is critical to delivering electricity generated by proposed wind projects in and around San Diego County,” said Nancy Rader, executive director of the California Wind Energy Association.

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Studies & Reports
With 8,000 of MW of Wind Installed, Texans Want More: Survey

A new survey shows that a vast majority of residents in the No. 1 state for wind power want even more renewable energy.

The survey of 993 registered voters, conducted by Baselice & Associates and commissioned by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, showed that 85% of Texans believe the state should increase the production and use of renewable energy such as wind and solar power. Of that 85%, 59% “strongly” favor increasing production of renewable energy.

According to the survey, more than 79% of Texans, including 71% of Republicans and 73% of self-identified conservatives, support financial incentives to recruit renewable energy businesses and associated jobs to Texas. Further, statewide there is a consensus among Texans to require electric companies to provide a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources. Supporting such a requirement were 86% of Democrats, 59% of Republicans, 89% of Hispanics, 84% of females under the age of 55, and 61% of males over the age of 55. Texas does currently have a renewable electricity standard (RES).

The survey outcome is in keeping with poll results recently released by AWEA showing that 75% of U.S. voters favor a 25%-by-2025 national renewable electricity standard. The Texas survey is particularly notable because residents in the state, which has by far the most wind power installed in the U.S. with over 8,000 MW, are much more familiar with the renewable energy source than residents in most other parts of the country.

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RFPs
NV Energy Utilities Seek Renewables

NV Energy’s two Nevada-based utility subsidiaries issued a request for proposals (RFP) for renewable energy resources.

Eligible sources include wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other resources eligible for portfolio energy credits under the Nevada renewable portfolio standard. Responses to the RFP are due by October 2.

“Renewable resources, which we are fortunate to have in abundance here in Nevada, are an integral part of our energy supply strategy,” said Michael Yackira, president and CEO of NV Energy. “We are involved in more than 30 renewable energy projects in Nevada and are seeking to increase that number and the amount of renewable energy in our portfolio mix for the benefit of our state as well as our customers.”

The RFP is consistent with the company’s ongoing plan to surpass the goals of Nevada’s renewable electricity standard (RES) requiring that an increasing percentage of the power it provides to customers come from renewable sources. The new standard, which was established by the 2009 legislative session, now requires that 25% of all the company’s electricity come from renewable resources or energy efficiency measures by 2025. The legislative session also established that, for the first time, the company can now use out-of-state resources to meet Nevada’s RES.

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Around the Industry
Doing Business Together

enXco Service Corp. has begun providing full operations and maintenance (O&M) services under a multi-year agreement with Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative. The services include scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and 24/7 remote monitoring for two wind energy projects located 40 miles apart in Dickinson and Kossuth counties in northwest Iowa. Each site consists of seven 1.5-MW GE turbines, for a total capacity of 21 MW.

“These are the first cooperative-owned, community-based wind projects that enXco Service Corp. will provide services to through an O&M agreement,” said Dave Luck, director of business development for enXco Service Corp. “The projects are further unique as they provide power to ethanol plants located nearby. The O&M services will be provided by the extensive resources we have in the region, with remote monitoring from our Operations & Control Center located in Chandler, Minn.”

RMT received the balance-of-plant engineering and construction work for Wind Capital Group’s 150-MW Lost Creek Wind Farm in DeKalb County, Mo. RMT will  be providing engineering, procurement, and civil and electrical infrastructure construction to support the installation of 100 1.5-MW GE turbines at the site. The civil and electrical infrastructure includes roads, crane paths and pads, turbine foundations, an underground collector system, in-tower wiring, and the construction of two meteorological towers. RMT is also responsible for mechanical turbine completion, tower erection, and testing and inspections.

Is your company providing components or services to another company along the supply chain? Send your “Doing Business Together” news to clevesque@awea.org.

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Around the Industry
Around the World

China gets started on “Three Gorges in the Air”
Construction started recently on what China says will be the country’s first 10,000-MW wind power station, located in the far northwestern city of Jiuquan in Gansu Province. The Chinese government is unofficially dubbing the project, which is intended to maximize wind power efficiency through large-scale construction and transmission, “Three Gorges in the Air”—referring to the massive dam and reservoir completed in 2006. China had over 8,000 MW of wind energy as of the end of last year.

Danish company, Nordkraft work on Norwegian facility
Denmark’s DONG Energy will build and operate the Nygardsfjell 2 wind facility in the Narvik municipality in northern Norway, the company announced. The wind farm, which will have a capacity of 25-33 MW, will be owned by Nordkraft Vind AS, an entity co-owned by Norwegian concern Nordkraft and DONG.

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AWEA News
Demonstration Space now Available for Exhibitors at AWEA’s Health & Safety Workshop

New for this year’s Health & Safety Workshop! Exhibitors will have the opportunity to demonstrate the industry’s latest health and safety techniques and equipment during the evening workshop reception on September 16th. Demonstration opportunities are available in the reception tent area as well as the adjoining parking lot.

This opportunity is only available to our workshop exhibitors. If you have not yet reserved a booth, we encourage you to do so soon as 23 of the 35 indoor exhibit booths have already been sold.

To reserve a booth go to www.awea.org/events/safety09/exhibition.html.

To register for the workshop please go to www.awea.org/events/safety09/registration.html.

If you have any questions or would like more information on exhibiting and demonstration opportunities still available, please email Ed du Moulin at emoulin@awea.org.

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AWEA News
AWEA’s Next Supply Chain Workshop to be Held in Detroit

After extremely successful and well-attended supply chain events in Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois, the next AWEA Supply Chain event has been scheduled to occur in Michigan this November. Held in Detroit in conjunction with the AWEA Small and Community Wind Conference & Exhibition, this workshop will attract representatives from a diverse range of markets to discuss the wind industry’s need to strengthen and expand its national supply chain to keep up with growing demand for wind energy and to increase domestic manufacturing of wind turbines and their components for homes and farms, and utility grade wind projects.

The Supply Chain Workshop educational sessions will be held concurrently with the Small and Community Wind Conference sessions allowing attendees to have the option of attending the conference sessions or workshop sessions as well as visiting the exhibition hall that will feature supply chain exhibitors.

Topics:

• Wind Industry Overview
• Anatomy of a Turbine
• Wind Turbine Manufacturers
• Major Component Manufacturing
• Value Chain Services
• Transportation and Logistics
• Entering the Wind Industry: Funding, Contracts, and Re-Tooling
• Case Studies

Registration is now open for this event at www.smallandcommunitywindexpo.org/registration.cfm.

The agenda for the Supply Chain workshop can also be found at www.smallandcommunitywindexpo.org/supply_chain_program.cfm.

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AWEA News
Only 5 Booths Remaining for Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop!

Twenty-five of the thirty available booths for the Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop have already been sold!

The exhibit area, recently expanded to accommodate the high demand, offers a more intimate exhibition environment than larger tradeshows. This allows for more effective product display, brand recognition, networking, and potential business transactions. During session breaks and receptions, attendees mingle in the exhibit area, bringing high traffic volume and relaxed conversation. Since the workshop takes place at a hotel, booths are limited to 10 square feet, making it an easy exhibition to prepare and budget for.

For more information on exhibiting, please click here. If you have additional questions on exhibiting you can email emoulin@awea.org. With only a few booth spaces remaining, we encourage you to act fast!

To register for the Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop, please visit http://www.awea.org/events/wra09/registration.html. For registration questions, contact us at conference@awea.org or 202.383.2512.

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AWEA News
AWEA Outreach: The Weeks Ahead

AWEA staff members participate in high-level industry events to ensure that the newest and most accurate information about the wind energy industry gains maximum visibility. In the next two weeks, AWEA will have a presence at the following events:

• Event: Texas Supply Chain Conference
• Details: August 19-20, 2009; Round Rock, TX
• AWEA Participation: AWEA is co-sponsoring and attending the conference. Susan Sloan, Manager of Strategic Partnerships, will present on the state of the wind power industry.

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AWEA Wind Power Health & Safety Workshop
September 16 – 17, 2009
Snowbird, UT

AWEA Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop
September 30 – October 1, 2009
Minneapolis, MN

AWEA Wind Power Finance & Investment Workshop
October 13 - 14, 2009
New York, NY

AWEA Wind Power Supply Chain Workshop
November 3 - 5, 2009
Detroit, MI

Small and Community Wind Conference & Exhibition
November 3 - 5, 2009
Detroit , MI

AWEA Wind Energy Fall Symposium
November 18 - 20, 2009
Orlando, FL

AWEA Offshore Wind Project Workshop
December 2 - 3, 2009
Boston, MA

WINDPOWER 2010 Conference & Exhibition
May 23 - 26, 2010
Dallas, TX

www.awea.org/events

Donald Furman, President
Iberdrola Renewables

David Blittersdorf, Treasurer
Earth Turbines

Edwin T.C. Ing, Secretary
Attorney

James A. Walker, Past President
enXco

Vic Abate, President-Elect
GE Energy

Gabriel Alonso
Horizon Wind Energy

P. Barry Butler
Univeristy of Iowa

Thomas Carnahan
Wind Capital Group

Karen Conover
DNV Global Energy Concepts

David Drescher
John Deere Renewables

John Eber
JPMorgan Capital Corp.

Declan Flanagan
Lincoln Renewable Energy, LLC

Bob Gates
Clipper Windpower

Dean Gosselin
NextEra Energy Resources

Ned Hall
AES Wind Generation

Kimberly Harris
Puget Sound Energy

Monty Humble
Mesa Power, LLC

Randolph Mann
Edison Mission Energy

Craig Mataczynski
RES America

Lars Moller
Broadwind Energy, Inc.

Michael Polsky
Invenergy, LLC

Roby Roberts
Vestas Americas

Hal Romanowitz
Oak Creek Energy Systems

Advisors

David Giordano
CP Energy Group

Jay Godfrey
American Electric Power

Dick Williams
Shell Wind Energy

Edward Zaelke
Chadbourne & Parke, LLP

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