September 2009 - Wind Best Practices Guide

Alaska Energy Authority - Alaska Wind Energy Development
Best Practices Guide to Environmental Permitting and Consultations

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January 10-11, 2008 - Bethel Regional Wind Development Workshop

• Agenda
• Fundamentals of Wind Energy
• Wind/Diesel Power Systems Basics and Examples
• Integration of Wind into Diesel Power Systems
• AVEC Construction and Operating Experience
• Successful Project Development
• Village of Kongiganak Presentation
• Chaninlk Wind Group - Pathway to Sustainability
• Economic Modeling & Feasibility Studies
• Yukon Kuskokwim Region Wind Resource Summary
• Regional Economic Wind Development in Rural Alaska, Part I-Identifying Regional Potential
• NANA Regional Energy Planning and Feasibility Studies
• Regional Wind Development - EWIS
• Rural Energy Development in Chile: An Illustrative Case Study
• Critical Mass: Poster

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August 2007 - Anchorage WEATS presentations and maps

• Foundation Design for Wind Turbines in Warming Permafrost
• Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBS)
• Regional Economic Wind Development in Rural Alaska
• Wind Monitoring Tower Installation
• Modeling & Feasibility Studies
• AVEC and Wind Generation
• USDA Rural Development, Farm Bill Section 9006: REEE
• Renewable Energy Policy: A Driving Force
• Wind-Diesel Project, Nikolski, Alaska
• What Are Green Tags?
• Wind Resource Assessment
• Wind Resource in Alaska (map)
• Wind Resource in Bristol Bay and Dillingham (map)
• Wind Resource in Northwest Arctic Borough (map)
• Wind Resource in Southeast Alaska (map)
• Wind Resource in South Central Alaska (map)
• Wind Resource in Yukon Delta (map)

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2007 HOMER Alaska Training Files

The following link will take you to an FTP site where you can access Alaska specific files and an Alaska training session manual for the hybrid system optimization software HOMER (free download at http://www.nrel.gov/homer/). If you receive a "sign on" screen press enter to continue to the folder. If you have difficulty accessing the folder in this way, please cut and past the link into the address bar of your Windows Explorer window instead of your Internet Explorer window. Link to FTP site (ftp.aidea.org)

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2007 Rural Energy Conference Presentations

• AVEC and Wind Generation Presentation (6.6mb)
• GVEA Eva Creek Wind Project Presentation ( 2.88mb)
• HOMER Overview, NREL (1mb)
• Wind Resource Assessment Presentation (1.36mb)
• Kotzebue Wind Project Expansion/Integration Presentation (6.68mb)
• NREL Successful Development of Wind Projects in Alaska (506kb)
• TDX Power Wind Diesel in Alaska (2.29mb)
• Wind Feasibility Study Bristol Bay Region, Alaska (392kb)

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Alaska Wind Energy in the News

Wind Turbine Provides Electricity for Arctic Town
CADDET Technical Brochure # 143 about Kotzebue, Alaska, 2001

Native American Wind Interest Group Quarterly Newsletter Fall 2004

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Cold Climate Effects on Wind Turbines

Wind Power Development in Sub-Arctic Conditions with Severe Rime Icing
Yukon Energy Corporation, presented at Circumpolar Climate Change Summit and Exposition 2001

The Effects of Black Blades on Surface Temperatures for Wind Turbines
Yukon Energy Corporation

Overcoming Icing Effects on Wind Turbines
Yukon Energy Corporation

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Hybrid Power Systems Design

Remote Power Systems with Advanced Storage Technologies for Remote Alaskan Villages – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1997

Isolated Systems with Wind Power: An Implementation Guideline
Riso National Laboratory, Denmark, 2001

Analysis of Electric Loads and Wind-Diesel Options for Remote Power Stations in Alaska
Devine, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004

The Alaska Village Electric Load Calculator
Devine & Baring-Gould, National Renewable Energy Lab

Wind-Diesel Hybrid Options for Remote Villages in Alaska
University of Massachusetts, National Renewable Energy Lab and Alaska Village Electric Cooperative

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Wildlife Interactions

Interim Guidelines to Avoid and Minimize Wildlife Impacts from Wind
Turbines – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2003

Southwest Alaska Small Wind Wildlife Site Investigations at Kodiak Island and Bristol Bay – Maul, Foster and Alongi, Inc and Northwest Wildlife Consultants Inc, 2003

Collision Potential of Eiders and Other Birds Near a Proposed Windfarm at St. Lawrence Island – ABR, Inc. Environmental Research & Services, 2003.

Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian Collision Mortality in the United States
National Wind Coordinating Committee, 2001

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Presentations from the Alaska Wind Energy Training Seminar 2005

A two-day Alaska Wind Energy Training Seminar was held in Anchorage July 19-20, 2005 and in Bethel July 21-22, 2005. Presentations from the seminar are below.

Wind Energy Options: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Larry Flowers (National Renewable Energy Lab)

Wind Energy Update – Larry Flowers (NREL)

Fundamentals of Wind – Ian Baring-Gould (National Renewable Energy Lab)

Small Wind Technology and Applications – Larry Flowers (NREL)

Dollars and Sense of Wind Energy Economics – Larry Flowers (NREL)

Wind Prospecting – John Wade (Meteorologist)

MET Tower Installation Slideshow – Reuben Loewen (AEA)

BBNC Regional Wind Study – Doug Vaught (V3 Energy, LLC)

Yukon-Kuskokwim Region Wind Resource Summary – Mia Devine (AEA)

Bethel Wind Resource Summary – Mia Devine (AEA)

Wind-Diesel Integration – Ian Baring-Gould (NREL)

Hybrid Power Systems Components and Architecture – Ian Baring-Gould (NREL)

Hybrid System Modeling & Feasibility Studies – Mia Devine (AEA)

St. Paul Operating Experience – Nick Goodman (TDX Power)

Wind-Diesel Construction Process – Eric Marchegiani (Alaska Village Electric Cooperative)

Wind Turbine Foundations – Eric Marchegiani (AVEC)

Implications of Bird Movements for Windpower Sites and Powerlines – Robert Day (ABR, Inc.)

Bird and Wildlife Interactions – Karen Kronner (Northwest Wildlife Consultants Inc)

Renewable Energy: Alaska’s Opportunity to be an Energy State in 2050 – Chris Rose (Renewable Energy Alaska Project)

Green Tags – Chris Rose (REAP)

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Presentations from the Bi-Annual Wind-Diesel Conference

Proceedings from past Wind-Diesel conferences can be found on the Wind Powering America website:

• 2008 Wind-Diesel Conference – Girdwood, AK
• 2002 Wind-Diesel Conference – Anchorage, AK

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