Further Exploration

Reading through this discourse on wind energy is intended to give you the basics of some complex issues, so you can coninue exploring and be ready to join into discussion on the issue.

This page is a (non-exhaustive) list of other online resources on wind energy.

If you have anything you would like added (or broken links to report), please feel free to contact me.

IEEE Resources

IEEE has two societies with message boards that are concerned with wind energy, and many papers and documents on the subject.

» IEEE Sustainable Development Society Discussion Board

» IEEE Social Implications of Technology Forum

» IEEE Explore search for "Wind Power"

National Wind Associations

Many countries have wind energy associations, not for profit agencies dedicated to the cause of wind energy and the ways it can positively affect their home country.

» Danish Wind Energy Assocation

» American Wind Energy Association

» The Indian Wind Energy Assocation

» New Zealand Wind Energy Assocation

» Canadian Wind Energy Assocation

» European Wind Energy Assocation

» World Wind Energy Association

» Australian Wind Energy Association

» British Wind Energy Association

» Nederlandse Windenergie Vereniging

» German Wind Energy Association

» Suisse-Eole

» Irish Wind Energy Association

» Finnish Wind Power Association

» Les Compagnons d'Eole (Belgium)

» Avel Pen Ar Bed (France)

» Austrian Wind Energy Association

» Norwegian Wind Energy Association

» Swedish Wind Energy Assocation

» Estonia Wind Energy Association

» Polish Wind Energy Association

» African Wind Energy Association

» South African Wind Energy Assocation

Resources For Kids

Educational material and projects for the younger set, but plenty of good information to appeal to their parents as well.

» Wind energy for kids, presented by the United States Department of Energy

» How Stuff Works explanation of wind power

» The KidWind Project - The place to do projects about wind!

» Wind With MIller - The Danish Wind Industry's educational resource Links to English, other languages available.

Not for profit, non governmental groups supporting wind power

» The Sierra Club

» The Audubon Society supports wind energy, on a case by case basis, depending on the threat to wildlife a particular development may cause.

» Greenpeace International , fights global warming, and nuclear energy, amongst other issues.

» Yes2Wind, a UK focused site by the local brances of the World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace.

» The Renewable Energy Policy Project - wind section

» Earth Policy.org's update on the status of Wind Power potential

Wind Protesters

Being such a controversial topic, there are many protesters of the deployment of wind energy, mostly on the local level.

» Save Our Sound - Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

» Save Jones Beach - an Ad Hoc Committee demanding clarification and a mutually acceptable resolution of the proposed windfarm off of Long Island, New York.

» Save Upstate New York - A Concerned Citizens Group in Upstate New York

» Industrial Wind Action Group - facts, analysis, exporuse of wind energy's real impacts.

» Country Guardian - A British national compaign to oppose wind turbines

Scientific and Governmental Information

» Database of Wind Characteristics – Wind, and wind turbine information.

» 2005 report by the US Government Accountability Office on the impact of wind turbines on wildlife (PDF)

» National Renewable Energy Laboratory (US) wind section

» Wind Energy Development Programmatic EIS - The United States Bureau of Land Management's Environmental Impact Statement information.

» Sandia National Laboratories Wind Site - Resources for Engineers