Wind Power Publications and Web Resources
United States: Industry, Trade,
and Advocacy Associations
American Wind Energy Association
(www.awea.org)
Electric Power Research Institute
(www.epri.com)
Northwest SEED
[Sustainable Energy for Economic Development] (www.nwseed.org)
Northwestern U.S. Wind Mapping Project (www.windpowermaps.org/default.asp)
Renewable Energy Atlas of the West
(www.energyatlas.org)
Utility Wind Resource Group
(www.uwig.org)
Windustry
(www.windustry.org)
International:
Industry, Trade, and Advocacy Associations
Australian Wind Energy Association
(www.auswea.com.au/)
British Wind Energy Association
(www.bwea.com)
Canadian Wind Energy Association
(www.canwea.ca/)
Danish Wind Industry Association (www.windpower.org/core.htm)
European Wind Energy Association
(www.ewea.org/)
German Wind Energy Association
(www.wind-energie.de/englischer-teil/english.htm)
Irish Wind Energy Association
(www.iwea.com/)
South African Wind Energy Association (www.icon.co.za/~sawea/)
U.S. Government Agencies
US Bureau of Land Management
Lands & Realty Wind Energy - http://www.blm.gov/nhp/what/lands
/realty/wind_energy.html
Wind Energy Development Programmatic EIS
Information Center (www.windeis.anl.gov)
US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(www.nrel.gov)
Avian literature database
(www.nrel.gov/wind/avian_lit.html)
National Wind Technology Center
(www.nrel.gov/wind)
Renewable Resource Data Center
(www.rredc.nrel.gov)
Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States (www.rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/)
US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy
(www.eere.energy.gov)
Wind Energy Program
(www.eere.energy.gov/wind/)
Wind Powering America (www.eere.energy.gov/windpoweringamerica/)
US DOE Sandia National Laboratories
(www.sandia.gov)
Wind Energy Technology
(www.sandia.gov/wind/)
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Wind Energy
(www.fws.gov/r9dhcbfa/windenergy.htm)
U.S. State Agencies
Hawaii Wind Energy Fact Sheet (www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/wind_hi.html)
Iowa Energy Center
(www.energy.iastate.edu/renewable/wind/)
Minnesota Wind Energy Resources and Information (www.me3.org/issues/wind/)
Minnesota Wind Turbine Siting (www.mnplan.state.mn.us/eqb/Energy
Facilities/wind.html)
New Mexico Wind Energy (www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ECMD/html/wind.htm)
Pennsylvania Guide to Wind Energy Resources (www.pawindmap.org/)
Texas Wind Power Project (www.glo.state.tx.us/energy/sustain/wind.html)
International Government Agencies
UK Crown Estate Offshore Windfarms
(www.crownestate.co.uk/estates/
marine/windfarms.shtml)
UK Offshore Wind Energy Industry (www.offshorewindfarms.co.uk/index.html)
UK Department of Trade and Industry
(www.og.dti.gov.uk)
Offshore Wind Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment
(www.og.dti.gov.uk/SEA/index.htm)
Non-Governmental Organizations
Audubon of Kansas
(www.audubonofkansas.org)
Wind energy in Kansas (www.audubonofkansas.org/pages/wind.html)
American Bird Conservency -
( www.abcbirds.org/policy/wind policy.htm )
Wildlife Management Institute (www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org)
Wind energy & wildlife: an attempt at pragmatism
(www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/
wmi/pages/windpower.html)
Industrial Wind Action Group: http://www.windaction.org/documents/c38/
Resources: Publications
American Wind Energy Association. Undated. Facts about wind energy and birds. American Wind Energy Association, Washington , DC . (www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/WEandBirds.pdf)
American Wind Energy Association. Undated. Save the Loon with wind energy: comparative impacts of wind and other energy sources on wildlife . American Wind Energy Association, Washington , DC .
(www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/wildlife.pdf)
Anderson, R., M. Morrison, K. Sinclair, and D. Strickland. 1999. Studying wind energy/bird interactions: a guidance document. Metrics and methods for determining or monitoring potential impacts on birds at existing and proposed wind energy sites. National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian99
/Avian_booklet.pdf)
Erickson, W.P., G.D. Johnson, M.D. Strickland, D.P. Young, Jr., K.J. Sernka, and R.E. Good. 2001. Avian collisions with wind turbines: a summary of existing studies and comparisons to other sources of avian collision mortality in the United States . National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian_collisions.pdf)
Erickson, W., G. Johnson, D. Young, D. Strickland, R. Good, M. Bourassa, K. Bay, and K. Sernka. 2002. Synthesis and comparison of baseline avian and bat use, raptor nesting and mortality information from proposed and existing wind developments. Bonneville Power Administration, Portland , OR. (www.bpa.gov/power/pgc/wind/avian
_and_bat_study_12-2002.pdf)
Evans, W.R. 1998. Applications of Acoustic Bird Monitoring for the Wind Power Industry. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca , NY. (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian98/
21-Evans-Acoustics.pdf)
Herbert, E., E. Reese, and L. Mark. 1995. Avian collision and electrocution: an annotated bibliography. California Energy Commission, Sacramento , CA . (www.energy.ca.gov/reports/avian
_bibliography.html)
Morrison, M. 1998. Avian risk and fatality protocol. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. (www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24997.pdf)
National Wind Coordinating Committee. 1994. Proceedings national avian-wind power planning meeting. National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian94/default.htm)
National Wind Coordinating Committee. 1995. Proceedings national avian-wind power planning meeting II. National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian95/default.htm)
National Wind Coordinating Committee. 1998. Proceedings national avian-wind power planning meeting III.
National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian98/default.htm)
National Wind Coordinating Committee. 2000. Proceedings national avian-wind power planning meeting IV. National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian00/default.htm)
National Wind Coordinating Committee. 2002. Avian/wind turbine interaction: a short summary of research results and remaining questions. National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/avian_factsheet.pdf)
Robel, R.J., J.A. Harrington, Jr., C.A. Hagen , J.C. Pitman, and R.R. Reker. Undated. Effect of energy development and human activity on the use of sand sagebrush habitat by Lesser Prairie-Chickens in southwestern Kansas . (www.kansasenergy.org/robertrobel.pdf)
Therkelsen, B., B. Grant, D. Bain, A. Davis, T. Gray, D. MacIntyre, and S. Ugoretz. 1998. Permitting of wind energy facilities: a handbook. National Wind Coordinating Committee, Washington , DC . (www.nationalwind.org/pubs/permit/permitting.htm)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Interim guidelines to avoid and minimize wildlife impacts from wind turbines. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington , DC . (www.fws.gov/r9dhcbfa/wind.pdf )
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 2003. Wind power guidelines. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA .
(www.wdfw.gwa.gov/hab/engineer/
windpower.index.html)
Publications not available on web
Exo, K.-M., O. Huppop, and S. Garthe. 2003. Birds and offshore wind farms: a hot topic in marine ecology. Wader Study Group Bulletin 100:1-4.
Johnson, G.D., W.P. Erickson, M.D. Strickland, M.F. Shepherd, D.A. Shepherd, and S.A. Sarappo. 2002. Collision mortality of local and migrant birds at a large-scale wind-power development on Buffalo Ridge , Minnesota . Wildlife Society Bulletin 30(3): 879-887.
Leddy, K.L, K.F. Higgins, and D.E. Naugle. 1999. Effects of wind turbines on upland nesting birds in conservation reserve program grasslands. Wilson Bulletin 111(1):100-104.
Nelson, H.K., and R.C. Curry. 1995. Assessing avian interactions with windplant development and operation. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 60:266-277.
Osborn, R.G., K.F. Higgins, R.E. Usgaard, C.D. Dieter, and R.G., Neiger. 2000. Bird mortality associated with wind turbines at the Buffalo Ridge Wind Resource Area, Minnesota . American Midland Naturalist 143:41-52.
Pedersen, M.B., and E. Poulsen. 1991. Avian responses to the implementation of the Tjaereborg Wind Turbine at the Danish Wadden Sea . Dan. Wildtundersogelser 47:1-44.
Tingley, M.W. 2003. Effects of offshore wind farms on birds: "cuisinarts of the sky" or just tilting at windmills? B.A. thesis, Harvard University , Cambridge , MA .
(www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mtingley/)
Whittam, B., & A. Kingsley. 2003. Shades of green: a bird's eye view of wind energy. BirdWatch Canada (23):4-7.
(www.bsc-eoc.org/download/BWCsp03.pdf)
Winkelman, E. 1990. Impact of the wind park near Urk , Netherlands , on birds: collision victims and disturbance of wintering fowl. Int. Ornithol. Cong. 20: 402-403.
Winkelman, J.E. 1985. Bird impact by middle-sized wind turbines on flight behavior, victims, and disturbance. Limosa 58:117-121. (In Dutch; English summary.)
Unpublished Literature
BioSystems Analysis, Inc. 1990. Wind turbine effects on the activities, habitat, and death rate of birds. Prepared for Alameda , Contra Costa, and Solano Counties , California . 2 pp.
Howell, J.A. and J.E. DiDonato. 1991. Assessment of avian use and mortality related to wind turbine operations: Altamont Pass , Alameda and Contra Costa Counties . Submitted to U.S. Windpower, Inc., Livermore , California . 72 pp.
Hunt, W.G., R.E. Jackman, T.L. Hunt, D.E. Driscoll, and L. Culp. 1998. A population study of golden eagles in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area: population trend analysis 1997. Report to National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Subcontract XAT-6-16459-01. Predatory Bird Research Group, University of California , Santa Cruz .
Johnson, G.D., and M.D. Strickland. 2003. Biological assessment for the federally endangered Indiana Bat ( Myotis sodalis ) and Virginia Big-eared Bat ( Corynorhinus towsnsendii virginianus ), NedPower Mount Storm wind project, Grant County, West Virginia. WEST Inc., Cheyenne , Wyoming . 46 pp.
Kansas Renewable Energy Working Group. 2003. Siting guidelines for windpower projects in Kansas . Kansas Renewable Energy Working Group.
Orloff, S., and A. Flannery. 1992. Wind turbine effects on avian activity, habitat use, and mortality in Altamont Pass and Solano County Wind Resource Areas, 1989-1991. Final report to Alameda , Contra Costa and Solano Counties and the California Energy Commission. California Energy Commission, Sacramento , USA .
Robel, R.J. 2002. Expected impacts on Greater Prairie-chickens of establishing a wind turbine facility near Rosalia , Kansas . Report to Zilkha Renewable Energy. 31 pp.
Sinclair, K. C., and M. L. Morrison. 1997. Overview of the U. S. Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory avian research program. NREL/CP-440-23115. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO.
Winkelman, J.E. 1992a. The impact of the Sep wind park near Oosterbierum (Fr.), the Netherlands , on birds, 1: collision victims. DLO-Instituut voor Bos- en Natuuronderzoek. RIN-rapport 92/2. 4 volumes. (In Dutch; English summary.)
Winkelman, J.E. 1992b. The impact of the Sep wind park near Oosterbierum (Fr.), the Netherlands , on birds, 2: nocturnal collision risks. DLO-Instituut voor Bos- en Natuuronderzoek. RIN-rapport 92/3. 4 volumes. (In Dutch; English summary.)
Winkelman, J.E. 1992c. The impact of the Sep wind park near Oosterbierum (Fr.), the Netherlands , on birds, 3: flight behavior during daylight. DLO-Instituut voor Bos-en Natuuronderzoek. RIN-rapport 92/4. 4 volumes. (In Dutch; English summary.)
Winkelman, J.E. 1992d. The impact of the Sep wind park near Oosterbierum (Fr.), the Netherlands , on birds, 4: disturbance. DLO-Instituut voor Bos- en Natuuronderzoek. RIN-rapport 92/5. 4 volumes. (In Dutch; English summary.)
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