NY-PA Wind Energy Workshop and Wind Forum

Take Home Message

July 25, 2001 - Wind Energy Workshop
July 26, 2001 - Wind Forum
Century House Hotel
Albany, New York

What issues do we want to address standing between wind development and the competitive and mandated markets emerging in the region?

Facilitator: Abby Arnold (NWCC – RESOLVE, Inc.)

Notes from discussion (ideas, concerns, questions, issues):

• Landowners are not organized to benefit from wind power.
• Assessing wind tax policies
• Resources small towns have to inspect construction works/permits?
• Permitting, what’s acceptable where (aesthetic impact)?
• Education, more is needed
• Financing, how to?
• Working with utilities
• Transmission constraints/issues
• Expanding/building markets
• Uniformity across utilities
• Expand market competitiveness
• Need to think about increasing support for smaller projects
• Outreach to townships
• Incorporation of renewables into new residential and commercial construction projects
• NY and other State agencies who have to implement new Executive order for renewable energy use
• Create a private trade association
• AWEA needs to do more public relations work
• Wind needs to be part of upfront design architecture in new construction
• Research trends
• Need to have conference to bring together developers with equity investors
• System integration (financial incentive)
• Need to think about not just “small” and “large” wind but “private” and “utility”
• RPS outlook for MidAtlantic States
• Tax credit, net metering small turbines
• Power Authority purchases
• Green marketing
• State energy plan
• Regional ISO tariffs
• Small wind buy-down funding
• Large wind cost sharing
• Additional prospecting grants