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Wind Turbine Technician training in Iowa: Education for Green Jobs

Iowa Lakes Community College located in Estherville , Iowa offers some very good courses as part of their Wind Technician training ciriculum. Students are able incorporate the available wind technology courses as part of continuing adult education , certificates or associate degree program.

Boise State University
Boise , Idaho
Contact: Todd Haynes, Mechanical Engineer, Energy Research, Policy and Campus Sustainability

Eastern Iowa Community College will hold their Renewable Energy Systems Specialist degree with a focus on Small Wind Systems starting Fall 2009. Our program is unique in that the main focus is on Small Wind Systems used in residential and small commercial applications. Our decision to focus on Small Wind was driven by our research which showed that we have good representation for large scale Wind throughout the community college realm. Our advisory committee is made up of individuals from the small Wind industry who are very dedicated to our program. The students who graduate from our program will have the necessary skills to site, size and install a small Windsystem that will allow them to enter the job market as an installer immediately. Many different small Wind machines are covered in the training from micro Wind systems to village based Wind turbines. The students will also be cross trained to include solar for hybrid systems. Grid tied, off grid and hybrid systems will be covered as part of the base program. Ryan Light, Director for Renewable Energy, Eastern Iowa Community College, 563-441-4392 Office rlight@eicc.edu 

Sustainable Energy Education and Training Project
Bettencourt , Iowa
Provides training for high school and community college instructors. Offered by the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center.

University of Iowa
Iowa City , Iowa
Offers a Wind Power Management Program through the College of Engineering.

Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a rotating machine which converts the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator, wind turbine, wind power unit (WPU), wind energy converter (WEC), or aerogenerator.

This article discusses electric power generation machinery. Windmill discusses machines used for grain-grinding, water pumping, etc. The article on wind power describes turbine placement, economics and public concerns. The wind energy section of that article describes the distribution of wind energy over time, and how that affects wind-turbine design. See environmental concerns with electricity generation for discussion of environmental problems with wind-energy production

Wind power

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2008, worldwide nameplate capacity of wind-powered generators was 120.8 gigawatts.[1]

Wind energy has historically been used directly to propel sailing ships or converted into mechanical energy for pumping water or grinding grain, but the principal application of wind power today is the generation of electricity. Large scale wind farms are typically connected to the local electric power transmission network, with smaller turbines being used to provide electricity to isolated locations. Utility companies increasingly buy back surplus electricity produced by small domestic turbines. Wind energy as a power source is favoured by many environmentalists as an alternative to fossil fuels, as it is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and produces lower greenhouse gas emissions, although the construction of wind farms is not universally welcomed due to their visual impact and other effects on the environment. The intermittency of wind seldom creates problems when using wind power to supply a low proportion of total demand. Where wind is to be used for a moderate fraction of demand, additional costs for compensation of intermittency are considered to be modest.[2]  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


 

 


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