Kansas Wind Applications Center
The Kansas WAC missions are to educate electrical engineers on the
basics of wind energy, and to be a source of information on wind energy
for the people of Kansas, who want to harvest wind power for the
benefit of themselves, their children and the state. If you have
questions about how wind power might benefit you, please contact us and
we'll be happy to help you.
WAC Projects
- Wind for Schools!
- Anemometers are here! We have 4 towers. If you have
interest in having one erected on your property, contact us, but be
aware that priority will be given to K-12 schools considering WfS
applications, and WAC research projects.
- Wind lease information
- Wind turbine micro-siting: where on my land would work best?
- Wind energy estimates for specific sites
Dan
Nagengast is the Wind Facilitator for Kansas and the Rural Center
website is the best place to start for questions regarding land leasing
and community forums. See also the links below.
Wind Energy Web Links
-
WAC on-site resources
-
Kansas Partner Organisations and Information
- Kansas Rural Center:
our WAC partner. Many more useful wind links
- Kansas Energy
Office Community Wind Website: includes county wind maps
- Kansas Dept of Wildlife and Parks Wind Resource
Planner: links
as many GIS data layers for the state of Kansas as possible to the
state
wind map. Check transmission lines, sensitive species, highways,
and
more, compared to the wind resource for any given site. Zoom in
to
activate all the features.
-
National Wind (and Solar) Siting Resources
- AWS Truewind
Wind
Navigator: public-access wind maps linked to Google satellite
imaging
- 3-Tier's Firstlook:
another tool similar to AWS's.
- NREL's IMBY:
yet another free tool. This one does both solar and wind, but
data is not available for both in all states (no wind for KS.)
-
National Organisations with Information for Home- and
Landowners
-
National Wind Organisation Home Pages
Other Wind Applications Centers
Wind For Schools
The Wind for Schools program, supported by the National
Renewable Energy Center Laboratory, aims to help rural school
districts install 1.9-kW wind turbines for use in education, and to
encourage incorporation of renewable energy education into the K-12
science curriculum. Our goal is to install five turbines per year
at rural schools throughout Kansas, and to provide assistance to
schools in educating their students about renewable energy, especially
wind power.
Five schools installed turbines in 2007-8. We are working on
displaying the data from those schools on this site, so other students
can see and download it. The website is up, but we don't have the
data linked in yet.
The 2009-10 request
for proposals
(MS Word file) is now available!
Proposals for the 2009-10 academic year ARE DUE on 15 April 2009.
We are currently installing the turbines from the 2008-9
round. Our hope is to have a tentative list of 2009-10
schools ready by 15 May, and make site visits as needed through summer
and fall.
Questions? E-mail us:
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This page maintained by Ruth Douglas Miller;
last update 8 April, 2009.
