WASHINGTON, June 9, 2016 - DOE’s Wind Program will partner
with the Distributed Wind Energy
Association (DWEA) to support the long-term viability of the Wind
for Schools program. DOE says that the partnership is part of a broader
effort to not only support the growth of the program, but to also diversify sources
of funding to allow more schools to be able to participate.
Wind for Schools currently supports a network of rural K-12
public schools and higher education institutions in 12 states. Each K-12 school
hosts a wind turbine, with installation and curriculum supported by students
and faculty working with a Wind Application Center at a partner university in
their state.
Some 145 wind turbine systems are currently installed at the
host schools. The K-12 host school incorporates their school's wind turbine
into their classroom as a way to support interactive and interschool “research
tasks” that inspire and demonstrate novel approaches to teach science while
involving K-12 students in their communities.
The Wind Application Centers provide technical assistance to
the schools, such as wind resource and energy usage analysis, siting,
permitting, land use, financials, overseeing the installation of the power and
the data acquisition system and performance data analysis.
DWEA will work with the existing participants over the
course of nine months to further the initiative's mission of “bringing wind
education to the classroom through experiential learning,” as well as help to
make connections with industry and help additional states, universities and
schools to join.
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