WIND ENERGY and FOUNDATION CONSTRUCTION TRAINING

September and October 2007

Intertribal COUP and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe will be hosting a wind energy training at Rosebud and Pine Ridge, sponsored by the Department of Interior funding, to be held in late September and October. The training will involve both classroom and hands-on activities including the foundation and installation of a 65 kW turbine at KILI at the end of October. This training will highlight the information and skills that will be necessary for the construction of small and large wind turbine foundations, similar the foundations used at Ft. Berthold (65 kW) and Rosebud (750 kW) projects.

More information will be forth coming on the final training schedule shortly.

~ APPLICANT PREFERENCES ~

Applications from enrolled tribal members from the member COUP Tribes which are participating in the Intertribal Wind Demonstration Project will be given first preference for the 30 training slots. Half of the training slots (15 slots) will be available for Rosebud tribal members and the other half will be available to other COUP tribal members, for this initial training which will be held primarily at Rosebud. Future training activities will be at each of the participating intertribal wind project reservation sites, with preferences going to tribal members of those host reservation sites.

WEATS TRAINING STILL AVAILABLE REGISTER NOW!!

Preference will also be given to applicants who have completed the Wind Energy Training Application Symposium (WEATS) offered at the National Wind Technology Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The application process for WEATS is still open for this year's training with a limited number of slots available. Please apply directly to WEATS as directed by this website: www.windenergy.org/weats2007

Here is the WEATS AGENDA 2007 National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) Revised 2 August, 2007

Tuesday, Aug 28 (Fundamentals / Small Wind)
8:00 Travel to NWTC / Badging
9:00 Course Introduction / Introductions Larry Flowers (NREL)
9:30 Welcome to NWTC Bob Thresher (NREL)
10:00 Wind Applications Larry Flowers (NREL)
10:30 Break
10:45 Fundamentals/Intro to Wind Ken Starcher (AEI)
Wind characteristics
Operation of Wind Turbines
Economics overview
Power in the wind
Power curves
12:15 LUNCH (NA Video) Bob Gough announces
13:15 Introduction to Small Wind technologies Jim Green (NREL)
14:30 Small Wind – on grid applications Ian Baring-Gould (NREL)
15:30 Break
15:45 Small Wind – off grid and village applications Robert Foster (NMSU)
16:30 Small Wind Manufacturer Andy Kruse (SWWP)

Wednesday, August 29 (Small Wind / Resource Assessment / Site Tour)
8:00 Travel to NWTC
8:30 NWTC Tours Ian Baring-Gould / Jim Johnson (NREL)

Break into groups
Dyno Lab Vahan Gevorgian / Hal Link / Ed Overly
IUF/Blade Test Scott Hughes / Mike Jenks (NREL)
Hybrid Power Test Bed Ben Kropowski / Kevin Harrison (NREL)

As one group
AOC 15/50 & NW-100) Ian Baring Gould (NREL)
Skystream Jim Green / Trudy Forsyth (NREL)
CART/ART Lee Jay Fingersh (NREL)
10:30 Break
10:45 Wind mapping Dennis Elliott / Mark Schwartz (NREL)
Anemometers, Dataloggers George Scott (NREL)
12:00 LUNCH Luncheon Speaker Michael Milligan (NREL)
Wind and Climate Change
12:45 Large Windfarms Larry Flowers (NREL)
Technology/Markets/Economics
Windfarm Development Overview
13:45 Site Selection Windpro Wind Farmer-WASP (Dale Osborn)
14:15 Break
14:30 Land Agreements / Environmental Review (Dale Osborn)
Permitting / PPA (Dale Osborn)

Thursday, August 30 (Large Wind / Round Table Discussions)
8:00 Start lift safety and MET parts Ken Starcher (AEI) / Robert Foster (NMSU)
Assembly Lift
Anemometer loan program Robi Robichaud (NREL)
10:00 Break
10:30 Interconnection & Transmission Brian Parsons (NREL)
11:15 Developing a Pro Forma Tom Wind (Wind Consultant)
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Policy Bob Gough
14:00 Wind Integration Michael Milligan (NREL)
15:00 Break
15:15 Discussion and Q&A
Track A: Large Wind (Large conf rm) (Larry, Bob, + speakers)
Track B: Small Wind (Med conf rm) Jim / Trudy / Ian
17:00 Leave for Picnic at El Dorado State Park

Friday, August 31 (Wind Farm Tour)
7:30 Depart Hotel Ken Bolin Ph: 303-928-4529
10:00 Arrive at Ponnequin Windfarm Cell: 720 273-9392
12:00 Leave for Airport (boxed lunch on bus)
14:00 Arrive at DIA Airport