Distributed Wind Technology

Key Components

The key compoments of distributed wind technology are modern distributed wind turbines, your property, interconnection and net metering and the local power grid.

• Modern Distributed Wind turbines
  • Modern Distributed Wind Turbines are designed to produce power that is ready to flow directly back on to the grid through your local power service using standard electrical connections.
• Your Property
  • Business operators, residential land owners, farmers and institutional land holders can leverage property ownership to produce power locally with a distributed wind turbine.
• Interconnection
  • Interconnection standards are administered and enforced by electrical utilities and cooperatives and are designed to ensure that equipment such as distributed wind turbines can connect safely to the electrical grid.
• Net Metering and your local power grid
  • A net meter is a utility installed meter that measures the electricity your home or business consumes and
  • The electricity your wind turbine produces
    • mandated across most of North America
    • Electricity produced by turbine flows through your net meter back on the electrical grid
    • You receive credit on your bill against your electricity consumption
    • Some utilities and cooperatives offer Net Billing which is an arrangement whereby the Utility pays you a per/kWh fee for any electricity you produce over and above your consumption

Windpower 101

• Windpower History
• Distributed Wind vs Wind Farms
• Distributed Wind Technology
• The Power of The Wind
• Dollars & Sense of Distributed Wind
• Distributed Wind & The Environment
• Making Wind Power Work For You!