The project team, with the help of the participating members, are developing several tools and resources to help cooperatives learn more about distributed wind from the RADWIND project. The following are those available or planned at this stage. Contact our team at RadwindProject@nreca.coop for more information on this project.

Available Resources

Reports

• 2021 NRECA RADWIND Survey (April 2021)
  A report summarizing the results of a recent survey of NRECA's distribution cooperative and other rural distribution utility members. Its focus is on co-op awareness, experience, and interest in wind technologies as a distributed generation resource.
  

• Use Cases For Distributed Wind in Rural Electric Cooperative Service Areas (April 2021)
  A report that covers the beneficial use of wind as a distributed energy resource (DER) across three major use cases: Front-of-Meter, Behind-the-Meter, and Off-Grid. These can utilize various sizes of wind turbines on their own or hybridized with other DER technologies.
  

• Value Case for Distributed Wind in Rural Electric Cooperative Service Areas (May 2021)
  A report that defines the values of the examples described in the beneficial use case documents to a cooperative or utility compared to other potential market-based solutions (e.g. peak shaving, grid and resiliency support, local economic development).
  

• Financing Distributed Wind Projects in Rural Electric Cooperative Service Areas (August 2021)
  A report that looks at various types of financing, incentives, and business models that can be used by electric cooperatives and other rural utilities to deploy distributed wind projects, or to support their members in doing so.
  

• Business Case for Distributed Wind in Rural Electric Cooperative Service Areas (April 2022)
  A report that seeks to identify and address market barriers to distributed wind adoption by laying out the business case for distributed wind in each use case established by the RADWIND project: front-of-the-meter (FTM), behind-the-meter (BTM), and off-grid. This advisory summarizes the contents within the Business Case report.
  

Case Studies

Case studies highlighting electric cooperatives' and rural public power districts' experiences in deploying or interconnecting distributed wind generation.

Tools and Resources

• Distributed Wind Toolkit
  
• Advisory (September 2021)
  

• RE Magazine Article: Tech Insights - Distributed Wind Toolkit (January 2022)
  

• Toolkit
  

• Webinar Recordings

• Modeling Tools for Distributed Wind Hybrid System Sizing, Integration & Optimization (April 2022)
  An informational webinar to introduce participants to the fundamentals of hybrid system sizing and integration from an optimization perspective.
  See this advisory for a full description of the webinar, an agenda with time marks, and information on the speakers and their organizations:
  Advisory
  

• Emerging Tech Series - Renewable Hybrid Power Plants (August 2021)
  

ADditional NRECA Resources

• Advisory: RADWIND Project Resources Summary (February 2022)
  

• Advisory: RADWIND Participation Opportunity for Year 2 (November 2021)
  

• Podcast: Harnessing Distributed Wind: Inside the RADWIND Project (June 2021)
  

• Advisory: RADWIND Participation Opportunity - Member Stakeholder Advisory Group (October 2020)

• FAQ: RADWIND Participation Opportunity - Member Stakeholder Advisory Group (October 2020)

• TechAdvantage 2020: Session Presentation Materials