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    Monday, June 04, 2007

    WINDPOWER 2007: THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE…

    Windpower 2007: There’s something happening here…
    June 3, 2007, Los Angeles Convention Center.

    WHO
    American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the wind energy industry

    WHAT
    WINDPOWER 2007: Just a trade show. Like Tiger Woods is just a golfer and Frank Sinatra was just a singer and Michael Jordan was just a basketball player and Shakespeare was just a writer. The key word: CAPACITY.

    WHEN
    June 3-6, 2007.

    WHERE
    Los Angeles, CA, Convention Center.

    WHY
    A guy who could explain every intimate detail of transmission, starting in the 1960s, assured me my impression was right. Wind is happening.
    But what isn’t clear until you walk the floor of this astonishing display is that as wind happens, economic activity spreads out all over the place. Bolts and ball-bearings, compressors and lubricators, tubes and wires and hoses and poles. Companies that do these things are expanding to do them for wind farms all over the country and around the world. This creates jobs. Which is why there are booths about job training and opportunities. Opportunities that can’t be siezed anywhere but where the wind farms are. Wind farms that make energy that doesn't have to be imported, dug up or refined.

    There is the most amazing display, a feat of engineering, really, on the Convention Center floor: a 170,000-pound nacelle, the part of a wind turbine on top of the tower with the generator in it, was moved to the exhibit and opened up, so you can look inside and see all the mechanics it takes to run it. What you see inside that nacelle is the future. Technology, jobs, and energy with a positive EROEI.

    A guy who specializes in “parts” told me that 5 years ago there were “25 or 30” big players in wind energy but now its down to GE, Suzlon, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Vestas.

    Teachers attended workshops. There was instructional literature for them and different workbooks and gamebooks for their kids, aimed at the various grade levels, and a website, Kidwind. And there were hands–on projects, build-it-yourself wind turbines, for the teachers to learn how to use and take back to their classrooms. The teachers seemed excited to learn how wind energy works. Wanna bet the kids will be excited, too?
    wind energy capacity in the US: almost 11,500 megawatts and growing and this is just the beginning. go to http://www.awea.org/projects/ for an interactive version of this map (click to enlarge)
    Austin Energy, America's most advanced utility, had a booth for its Plug-In Partners campaign. Of course it did. Wind energy is distributed energy. And the Plug-in Hybrid that is the keystone of Austin Energy’s campaign solves the problem of wind energy’s intermittency by providing someplace to store it. Using V2G technology, there is no need to build a storage infrastructure for intermittent energy sources. When the wind is blowing or the sun is shining, vehicles plugged into the grid store it. When use peaks, the plugged-in vehicles download to utilities on demand.

    QUOTES
    More soon. Like the transmission guy said, “…the field is changing so fast, they might’ve solved something else while I was telling you this.”

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