About

Welcome to the South Dakota Wind Energy Association.  (SDWEA)
 
Goals
  • Provide consumers with a cost-effective and stable alternative energy source
  • Foster the development of South Dakota based businesses related to wind energy production
  • Encourage the utilization of local applications for wind energy
  • Help develop investment opportunities in wind energy for South Dakotans
  • Attract wind energy manufacturing to the state that will produce good jobs in wind power installation, operations, and maintenance
  • Encourage the linkage of wind energy to the capabilities in research and development technical job training, engineering and other fields in the South Dakota higher education system
  • Provide a forum for people interested in wind energy to analyze ideas, discuss concerns, and determine other economic and environmental benifits associated with wind energy development.
  • Promote the use of wind energy by providing a forum for education, research, and reliable information about wind energy to a variety of audiences
  • Legitimize reputable interests seeking to establish wind development, in effect, serving as a reference point
  • Provide input to local, state, and national government relative to wind energy policy

The presentations from SDWEA's November 29, 2012 Annual Meeting are below.  Just click on each title to see the presentations or agenda

 
 
 
American Wind Energy Association Update - John Dunlop
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Renewable Energy Research and Studies now available for download  at DOE Electric Markets and Polcy Grop from LBL
 
View an animated map of United States "Installed Wind Capacity" (1999-Current)
 
South Dakota's State Energy Profile from the EIA. (note the Wind renewable energy coverage)