Day
1
8:00
- 8:30 AM Coffee & Donuts provided by AWPC
8:30
Welcome by Coy F. Harris Executive Director of the American
Wind Power Center.
Brief history of Wind Power from 660 AD to present
Modern water pumping windmill demonstration
Analysis of power in the wind
Small Wind Turbines
9:30
AM - Morning Break
10:00
- 12:00 Dr. Andy Swift, TTU Wind Science and Engineering
Department
Wind turbine design and function
12
Noon - Lunch provided by AWPC
1:00
- 3:00 PM Ken Starcher, Alternative Energy Institute,
WTAM
Wind characteristics, use of wind maps, how wind
is measured using met towers, data collection and
analysis and wind farm parameters.
3:00
PM - Afternoon Break
3:15
- 5:30 PM Preston Langford, Xcel Energy
Electrical transmission for wind farms, utility
interface, how it works, problems, plans for future
by Xcel Energy.
Day
2
8:00
- 8:15 AM Coffee & Donuts provided by AWPC
8:15
AM Glenn Patton, Director of Development
AWPC
Wind Farm Development
10:00
AM - Morning Break
10:15
- 10:45 AM Gary Hennigan Exxon / Mobil Oil
Turbine Lubrication
10:45
- 11:30 Mr. Martin Nowlin Shallowater ISD
Small Farm Review
11:30
- 12:00 Noon Coy Harris
Foundation Design and Review
12:00
Noon - Lunch provided by AWPC
12:30
PM - Begin tower climbing sessions
Simultaneous Tour of GE & Mitsubishi ground
displays
Simultaneous Tour of Shallowater ISD Wind
Farm, PYCO Industries Turbines & Samsung /
Cielo Wind Site.
5:00
PM - Presentation of Certificates
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.
