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Proceedings of the 2005 California Wind Energy Collaborative Forum

Thank you to everyone who joined us in La Jolla and made our fourth annual Forum a success. We'd also like to thank Knight & Carver for hosting the Tuesday night reception and opening their facilities for the tour.

The proceedings of the Forum consist of the following:

As always, if you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail forum@cwec.ucdavis.edu.

Presentations

The presentations are in PDF format, which can be viewed using Adobe's freely available Acrobat Reader. The audio files are in mp3 format.




Tuesday, December 13, 2005

KEYNOTE

CEC Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program: Planning the Future of Renewables in California
Martha Krebs
PIER Program Director, California Energy Commission

PDF, 2.2 MB
mp3, 17 MB

NEW WIND ENERGY EXPANSION IN CALIFORNIA

CONNECTING THE TEHACHAPI WIND RESOURCE
David Olsen
West Wind Wires

PDF, 275 kB
mp3, 14 MB
STRATEGIC VALUE ANALYSIS: A "GAME PLAN" FOR WIND RESOURCE PLANNING IN CALIFORNIA
Dora Yen-Nakafuji
PIER, Renewable Research & Development, CEC

PDF, 3.8 MB
mp3, 8.7 MB
INTERMITTENCY ANALYSIS PROJECT (IAP): ANALYSIS OF EFFECT OF RENEWABLES ON THE CALIFORNIA TRANSMISSION GRID
Ron Davis
Davis Power Consultants

PDF, 260 kB
mp3, 14 MB

REPOWERING AND THE ALTAMONT PASS WIND RESOURCE AREA

ALTAMONT PASS WIND RESOURCE AREA REPOWERING
Steven Buckley
Assistant Planning Director, Alameda County

PDF, 2.3 MB
mp3, 8.6 MB
CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION RENEWABLE ENERGY PORTAL PROJECT DEMONSTRATION
Dora Yen-Nakafuji
California Energy Commission

PDF, 10 MB
Slide 9 - statewide, mov, 19.3 MB
Slide 15 - Tehachapi, mov, 25.2 MB
mp3, 7.2 MB
PREDICTING THE WIND IN THE ALTAMONT PASS
David Lubitz
University of California, Davis

PDF, 2.2 MB
mp3, 10 MB




Wednesday, December 14, 2005

KEYNOTE

MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN WIND ENERGY
Andrew Garrad
Garrad Hassan & Partners, Limited

PDF, 7.7 MB
mp3, 18 MB

LOW SPEED WIND TURBINE TECHNOLOGY

MULTI-MEGAWATT LOW WIND SPEED TURBINE AND INTERMITTENCY MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
Craig Christenson
GE Energy

PDF, 4.3 MB
mp3, 10 MB
CLIPPER LIBERTY SERIES: ADVANCED LOW WIND SPEED TECHNOLOGY
Derek Petch
Clipper Wind

PDF, 4.1 MB
mp3, 12 MB
WIND TOWER COMPOSITES SPACE FRAME TOWERS
Tracy Livingston
Wind Tower Composites

PDF, 1.8 MB
mp3, 10 MB
ENERGY UNLIMITED, INC. VARIABLE LENGTH WIND TURBINE BLADES
Mark Dawson
Energy Unlimited, Inc.

PDF, 4.2 MB
mp3, 9.3 MB

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

WIND TUNNEL BASED STUDY OF URBAN WIND POWER RESOURCE
Bethany Kuspa
University of California, Davis

PDF, 1.6 MB
mp3, 7.6 MB
A FLYWHEEL TECHNOLOGY FOR BULK STORAGE
Richard Post
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PDF, 1.6 MB
mp3, 9.5 MB
WIND ENERGY CONVERSION IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Gerard J.W. van Bussel
Delft University of Technology

PDF, 3.4MB
Slide 18 - Turby, mpg, 5.2 MB
mp3, 12 MB
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION WIND PROSPECTS INCLUDING BUILDING INTEGRATED PROJECTS
Scott Debenham
Denham Energy, LLC

PDF, 2.1 MB
mp3, 6.9 MB