WPA / NWCC Wind Energy & Economic Development Forum

Presentations

April 24,  2007, 1:00-5:00pm
Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, East Lansing, MI

For a listing of Speaker Bios, click here.

The following presentations were give at the April 24, 2007 WPA/NWCC Wind Energy & Economic Development Forum:

• Introduction
  Larry Flowers, Wind Powering America

National Economic Development Impacts of Wind Energy

• Utility Scale Wind Turbine Manufacturing Requirements
  Larry Willey, GE

• Rural Economic Development Impacts: Modeling & State Analyses
  Marshall Goldberg, MRG & Associates

• Wind Power: A Texas Economic Development Story
  Susan Williams Sloan, American Wind Energy Association

Manufacturing Panel

• Renewable Energy - Manufactured Energy
  George Sterzinger, Renewable Energy Policy Project

• Clipper Windpower: An Overview of Manufacturing
  Kevin Rackstraw, Clipper Windpower

• A Study of Economic Impacts from the Implementation of a Renewable Portfolio Standard and an Energy Efficiency Program in Michigan
  Jim Croce, NextEnergy

Rural Economic Development Panel

• Economic Development: Wind vs. Coal
  Suzanne Tegen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• A Bridge Between Theoretical and Actual Economic Impacts: Montana's Wind Power Experience
  Mike Costanti, Matney-Frantz Engineering

• Windpower Economic Development: Economic Development from the View of a (former) County Commissioner
  Jack Keers, Pipestone County (MN) Commissioner

Focus on Michigan Panel

• K&M Machine Fabricating Inc.
  Bernie Lieberg, K&M Machine Fabricating

• Laker School Wind Farm
  Brion Dickens, Laker School