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Small and Distributed Wind Turbine Update: A WINDExchange Webinar
Dec. 17, 2014
This webinar presented an overview of recent news and updates pertaining to small and distributed wind turbines.
- Bret Barker, U.S. Department of Energy, presented "Distributed Wind Portfolio Update," an overview of the distributed wind portfolio and highlighted pending guidance from the U.S. Department of Treasury regarding turbine certification requirements for the small wind investment tax credit.
- Robert Preus, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, announced a workshop related to wind resource and site assessment for distributed wind systems, and provided an update on the development of the distributed wind deployment model. Robert also described the soon-to-be-published Small Wind Turbine Site Assessor's Guide.
- Trudy Forsyth, Wind Advisors Team, presented "SMART Wind Consortium Project Introduction," an overview of the SMART Wind Consortium, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Audio and text versions of the webinar are available (WMV 15.2 MB). Download Windows Media Player. Time: 00:59:10. Text Version.