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The WindShare/Toronto Hydro wind turbine at the CNE.

This is very old. It's kept for mostly historical reasons.

Concentrating on community-based power in Ontario. Very, very preliminary at the moment.

Links

• Zephyr North — the wind resource assessment people (and, coincidentally, where I work).
• Toronto Renewable Energy Co-op — the parent of the WindShare co-op.
• OSEA — the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association. Dedicated to community-based renewable energy.
• The Kortright Centre — teaches short courses in renewable energy. They're run by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
• Home Power Magazine — the source for home-scale renewable energy. The previous issue is always online.
• Grassroots — a local store who can help with any renewable energy/low energy installation.
• IPPSO — Independent Power Producers' Society of Ontario.
• CFRE — Citizens For Renewable Energy. Based near the Sky Generation wind turbine on the Bruce peninsula.
• CanWEA — Canadian Wind Energy Association
• Heiner H. Dörner — catalogues wind energy designs that didn't quite work. Has some pictures of the huge 4MW turbine built on Cap Chat.
• Centre for Alternative Technology — based in mid-Wales, this charity has impressive resources on all aspects of renewable energy
• Scoraig Wind Electric — Hugh Piggott has been home building small wind turbines for his remote community for years.
• Fair Isle — Britain's most remote inhabited island. They've been using wind power for years. Coincidentally, this is where Catherine & I met ... ☺
• Miscellaneous JavaScript calculators for wind energy applications
• Wind Turbine Noise Issues — useful paper on understanding wind turbine noise.

Books

Paul Gipe has written some of the best books on the subject. My favourite book of his is Wind Energy Comes Of Age (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, 1995. ISBN: 0-471-10924-X). It gives a good overview of the technology, and a rare look into the impact on society of wind energy.

The Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners, by Bill Kemp. Good book by a local author.

If you just want the heavy theory, the Wind Energy Handbook (Burton, Sharpe, Jenkins & Bossanyi. pub John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN: 0-471-48997-2) has everything you need. Based on the famous Loughborough Wind Energy Course (formerly at Imperial College, London, where I took it), it's absurdly complete.

The Assessment and Rating of Noise from Wind Farms (ETSU-R-97) (PDF) — this is the grand-daddy of wind energy noise documents. Though rather old, and not without its faults (mostly to do with its age), ETSU-R-97 has stood up to more than a decade of intense scrutiny. As there didn't seem to be a searchable copy on the web, I compiled this from the fragments on the DTI website, and then ran it through Acrobat's OCR module. The OCR should be accurate enough for search engines to find relevant citations; please don't rely on this text as gospel.