Wind

Resource Source and Description Audience Topic Type Additional Tags File
Small Wind Guidebook

A guide for homeowners, small businesses and farms to decide if wind energy will work for them

Department of Energy: WINDExchange
Guide or Toolkit
State and Local Solution Center

Explore resources that enable strategic investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies through the use of innovative practices across the United States by a wide range of stakeholders, in partnership with state and local organizations and community-based nonprofits.

Department of Energy: Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
Guide or Toolkit
State Community Power Score Map

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Community Power Score map assigns points to each state based on its policy environment for supporting local energy action.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Report
Policy or Regulation
Map
System Advisor Model

The System Advisor Model (SAM) is a techno-economic model designed to facilitate decision making for people involved in the renewable energy industry.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Tool or Calculator
Tools to Build Local Power - Clean Energy

Browse a list of the proven resolutions, actions, and rules cities can adopt to promote local economic development from clean energy.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Factsheet
TVA — Green Power Providers

Details of TVA's Green Power program for members of TVA-controlled local power companies (Note: The Green Power Provider program will be retired and closed to new applications as of December 31, 2019)

Tennessee Valley Authority
Policy or Regulation
U.S Energy Mapping System — Renewable Energy Power Plants

A map of renewable energy power plants across the U.S.

U.S. Energy Information Administration
Map
Western NC County Wind Maps

A collection of wind maps and data for western North Carolina

Appalachian State University, North Carolina Wind Energy
Map
Western NC Energy Cost-Share Assistance Program (Energy CAP)

Energy CAP provides opportunities for renewable energy production and improved energy efficiency for WNC farms and small businesses through free grant application assistance, site assessments, consultations and energy audits.

Mountain Valleys RC&D
Service
Why Wind Power for North Carolina?

An outline of the policy and public opinion landscapes surrounding wind power in North Carolina, as well as facts about the state's wind capacity and the economic potential of the energy source

North Carolina Wind Energy Working Group
Factsheet

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