PROCEEDINGS WIND ENERGY EXPO '83 and NATIONAL CONFERENCE AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO, CA OCTOBER 17-19, 1983.

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1 PROCEEDINGS WIND ENERGY EXPO '83 and NATIONAL CONFERENCE AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO, CA OCTOBER 17-19, 1983 Cosponsored by Renewable Energy News Alternative Sources of Energy California Energy Update California Wind Energy Association UNIVERSITATSBIBLIOTHEK HANNOVER TECHNISCHE INFORMATIONSBIBLIOTHEK American Wind Energy Association UB/TIB Hannover

2 AWEA NATIONAL CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page "LARGE WIND SYSTEMS" Session Chairman - Sharon Alexander "The New Carter Wind Systems Model 200 Wind Generator" * Jay Carter, Jr. (Carter Wind Systems) "ESI 80/200 Design and Development" 1 Tom Jewett (Energy Sciences, Inc.) "Introducing the 'Montana Windjammer 1 " 21 Gregory E. Cook (Windpowered Machines, Ltd.) "Recent Advances in Variable Speed Generator Technology for Large Wind Turbines" 27 Theodore S. Andersen (Westinghouse Electric Corp.) "Review of the Mod-2 and Mod-5 Wind Turbine Projects" 34 John Lowe (Boeing Engineering Co.) "Mod-5A Program Update" 48 D.J. DiGiovacchino (General Electric Co.) "RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT" Session Chairman - Woody Stoddard "Large or Small? Economies of Scale" 63 Karl Bergey (Bergey Windpower Co., Inc.) "International Remote Site Wind Resource Assessments for the United States Air Force" 75 Thomas E. Kullgren (Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force Academy) "Methods of Predicting WECS Productivity: Significant Differences Based on an Archive of Real Data" * Walter L. Sass (Second Wind, Inc.) "Microcomputer Applications for Wind Energy Measurements" 82 Rudi Schoenmackers (New Mexico Solar Energy Institute) "UTILITY AND REGULATORY ISSUES" Session Chairman - Ted Andersen "A Comparison of the Economic Potential of Wind Turbine Generating Systems to Utilities with Significantly Different Generating Characteristics" 86 Martin K. Goldenblatt (Science Applications, Inc.) "Safety and Service Concerns of the Interconnection of Cogeneration and Small Power Production Facilities with Utility Systems" 96 Carel C. DeWinkel (Wisconsin Power & Light) "Isochronous Operation of a Wind Turbine in an Isolated Utility Grid".. * Al Gross (WTG Energy Systems)

3 nutility Interface Concerns and Programs Underway in Hawaii to Help Address These Concerns" 103 D. Richard Neill (Hawaii Dept. of Planning and Economic Development) "Status of the AWEA Standards Program" * Michael L.S. Bergey (Bergey Windpower Co., Inc.) "Negotiating Land Contracts for Windfarms" 125 Martha Walters (Harrang, Swanson, Long & Watkinson) "An Analysis of Local Regulation of Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS)" 135 Margaret A. Moorehead (Oregon Dept. of Energy) n ISSUES IN SITE ASSESSMENT" Session Chairman - Nancy Floyd n tt Overview of Wind Research at Oregon State University" 147 Robert Baker (Oregon State University) The Weibull Distribution Applied to Wind Sites in California" 153 David E. Waco (California Energy Commission) and Joseph P. Hennessey, Jr. (Wind Energy Consultant) "Problems: No End in Siting?" 171 Michael J. Sacarny (Second Wind, Inc.) "Meteorological Siting Studies in the Altamont Pass" 175 Ron Nierenberg (NFC Energy Corp.) "Wind and Turbulence Measurements at a Complex Terrain Site in Northern California" 192 Stephen H. Holets and Robert N. Swanson (Pacific Gas & Electric Co.) Banquet and Awards Banquet Speaker: Commissioner Karen Edson (California Energy Commission) 221 Awards Presentation: Mike Bergey (AWEA Board of Directors) 230 "MARKET OUTLOOK AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT" Session Chairman - Sharon Alexander "The Role of Insurance in Windf arms" 231 Richard T. Johnson (Reed Stenhouse) "Wind Turbine Offerings: Securities Law Issues" 239 Richard A. Lyons (Niesar, Moody, Hill, Kregstein & Hamilton) "A Wind Marketing Perspective" 254 Robin W. Sacks (Strategies Unlimited) "Tax Aspects of Wind Power Partnerships" 257 Stephen P. Kregstein (Niesar, Moody, Hill, Kregstein & Hamilton) "Windfarm Project Financing" 260 Edward H. Blum (Merrill Lynch White Weld Capital Markets Group)

4 "WINDFARM EXPERIENCES" Session Chairman - Vaughn Nelson "Windpark Development: An Overview" 272 Randall Tinkerman (Windcraft Industries) "The Status of Wind Turbine Development in Southern California Edison 1 s Service Territory" 276 Robert J. Yinger (Southern California Edison Co.) "Wind Development Activity in the Livingston, Montana, Area" 283 Ed Stern (City of Livingston, MT) "The Victory Garden Project" * James Dehlsen (Zond Systems, Inc.) "Delta Energy Project: A Status Report" * William R. Thorn (TERA Corp.) "Windfarming: The Fayette Experience" * John Eckland (Fayette Manufacturing Co.) "SAFETY AND RELIABILITY" Session Chairman - Mike Bergey "Performance and Energy Production of the Enertech 44" 294 Fred C. Vosper and R. Nolan Clark (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service) "Long-Term Test: Carter 25" 307 William Pinkerton (Alternative Energy Institute, West Texas State Univ.) "Examination, Evaluation and Repair of Laminated Wood Wind Turbine Blades After 1 1/2 Years of Service" 317 James R. Faddoul (Lewis Research Center, NASA) "Aerodynamic Pulse Load on a Rotor Blade in Tower Shadow" 358 Hikaru Matsumiya (Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan) "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS" Session Chairman - Carel C. DeWinkel "Wind Projects in Latin America" 372 Vaughn Nelson (Alternative Energy Institute, West Texas State University) and Enrique Caldera M., (Organizacion Latinoamericana de Energia and Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Mexico) "Some Current Activities in the Canadian Wind Energy Program" 379 M.S. Chappell (Div. of Energy, National Research Council, Canada) "Developments in the European Wind Energy Market" * Robert Cdland (Holec) "Development, Construction and Commissioning of a 300 kw Wind Turbine for the Orkney Islands" 412 R.R. Wilson and D.J. Conley (James Howden & Co., Ltd., Scotland, UK)

5 "A Review on the Wind Energy Development in China" 418 Dai Changhai and He Dexin (Chinese Aerodynamics Research Society, PRC) [Oral presentation by Michael C. Y. Niu, Sino-Am Wind Systems] "Recent Developments in Danish Wind Energy Technology and Industry" Carl Joergen Christensen (Riso Wind Test Center, Denmark) List of Speakers 465 List Exhibitors 467 List of Attendees 469 * Papers unavailable.