Awardee Name
Not Provided
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Agricultural application of an innovative mid-scale wind turbine design
Awardee State/Territory
Montana
Involved States/territories
Montana
Award Year
2012
Project Background
The goal of the project is to demonstrate the viability of an appropriately scaled, reliable, cost-effective, and visually acceptable wind turbine, and thus to fill a largely vacant mid-size niche in the turbine market. What is available is either commercial-scale and too large or residential-scale and too small, in either case too expensive to own or operate, and in neither case very well suited to the landscape. This is the barrier to agricultural on-site and distributed wind energy, despite its relative cost-effectiveness and the pressing conservation need for it
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No