Kansas Wind Applications Center

The Kansas WAC missions are to educate electrical engineers on the basics of wind energy, and to be a source of information on wind energy for the people of Kansas, who want to harvest wind power for the benefit of themselves, their children and the state. If you have questions about how wind power might benefit you, please contact us and we'll be happy to help you.

WAC Projects

Anemometers: coming soon
Wind lease information
Wind turbine micro-siting: where on my land would work best?
Wind energy estimates for specific sites

Wind Energy Web Links

Kansas Energy Office Community Wind Website: includes county wind maps
Download: Kansas transmission line map
American Wind Energy Association
Land Easement Compensation Packages. PDF file from Windustry. It includes charts of typical compensation from around the country. Payments to landowners have been rising with the size of turbines. Various ways that developers encumber land, and how the landowner can prepare to get the best deal.
Negotiating Wind and Land Agreements from the Farmers Legal Action Group. One chapter in a larger book, targeted towards land owners.
Windustry Webpage for Landowners Considering Leasing
An archive of Webinar power points on Leases and Easements

Wind For Schools

NEWS 2008 Request for Proposals is now available! (MS Word document) Deadline 1 April, 2008.

The Wind for Schools program, supported by the National Renewable Energy Center Laboratory, aims to help rural school districts install 1.9-kW wind turbines for use in education, and to encourage incorporation of renewable energy education into the K-12 science curriculum. Our goal is to install five turbines per year at rural schools throughout Kansas, and to provide assistance to schools in educating their students about renewable energy, especially wind power.

Application Process
Cost Estimates: how much, and where does the money come from?
Curriculum Help

NREL's curriculum resources page
KidWind
The NEED Project: National Energy Education Development: both wind and solar curriculum guides

The SkyStream turbine: Southwest Wind Power

Questions? E-mail us:

Ruth Douglas Miller, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU
Dan Nagengast, Executive Director, Kansas Rural Center, Lawrence, KS, 66047

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This page maintained by Ruth Douglas Miller; last update 19 February, 2008.