Membership Information

The National Wind Coordinating Collaborative (NWCC), a U.S. consensus-based collaborative formed in 1994, identifies issues that affect the use of wind power, establishes dialogue among key stakeholders, and catalyze activities to support the development of environmentally, economically, and politically sustainable commercial markets for wind power. The NWCC’s strategic approach enables stakeholder dialogue, encourages and sometimes conducts research projects; and conducts outreach to broad audiences. NWCC members include representatives from a broad spectrum of interests. All NWCC business, including meetings and topic specific workshops, white papers, member listings, and other wind related events are available on the NWCC web site, www.nationalwind.org.

Membership: The NWCC offers three categories of membership: Member, Associate Member, and Interested Party. The options are defined briefly below and further on the following page so that you can determine the best fit for you. The NWCC depends on volunteers to participate in raising issues, providing expertise, and engaging in dialogue and outreach on what is learned. The NWCC believes these categories reflect the various levels of contributions individuals like you make to the NWCC. The membership categories are:

1. Member: An individual who represents a sector and is fully engaged in NWCC business.
2. Associate Member: An individual who is interested in a specific NWCC workgroup or topic, but does not engage in all the responsibilities of a member.
3. Interested Party: An individual who may want to become involved in a work group for one specific project, workshop or other activity, but otherwise just wants general information.

Workgroups: Additionally, we want to make certain we keep you in touch with the right work group(s). We anticipate activity in the following workgroups: Siting, Transmission, and Wildlife. You can choose to receive information on just one workgroup or as many as you would like. If you would like more information on what activities these work groups will be involved in over the next year, go to the NWCC web site, www.nationalwind.org. 

NWCC Update: The NWCC staff emails a NWCC Update with workgroup highlights, conference call information, and upcoming events. The update is sent every other week as a link. You can view previous updates at www.nationalwind.org/update.

Transmission and Economic Development Briefings: The NWCC provides bi-monthly briefings on transmission issues including: market development, planning, transmission funding, seams issues, and regional/federal interaction. The bi-annual economic development brief looks at regional trends, announces new reports and upcoming workshops and focuses on topics such as tax income, landowner issues, community wind and job creation.