Agreement Number
12-236
Awardee Name
Cascade Conservation District
Grant Type
Classic
Project Title
Agricultural application of an innovative mid-scale wind turbine design.
Awardee State/Territory
Montana
Involved States/territories
Montana
Award Year
2012
Start Date
End Date
Award Amount
$1,000,000.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Energy
Resource Concern (Specific)
Energy efficiency of equipment and facilities
Inefficient energy use
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
Conservation Practice(s)
Farmstead Energy Improvement
Project Background
The goal of the project is to demonstrate the viability of an appropriately scaled, reliable, cost effective, and visually acceptable wind turbine. This will fill a largely vacant mid-size niche in the turbine market. This project is intended to demonstrate that an innovative, silo-shaped, reliable, and easily-maintained 100kW wind turbine, the Zilo, can be installed, owned and operated on site while decreasing long-term costs, displacing the use of fossil fuels, blending into the landscape and giving operators a significant degree of control over their Energy futures.
Project Scale
Regional
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No
Awardee Technical Contact Name
Gordon Brittan