Monday, November 19, 2007

UMASS Center for EE&RE

Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at UMASS
http://www.ceere.org/index.html
Team of engineers working on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Government money and public-private partnerships. Publications on website seem to end in 2004.

Fact sheet on wind turbine economics - estimating the simple payback time using assumptions about capacity factor, subsidies for wind energy, electricity prices, costs:
http://www.ceere.org/rerl/publications/published/communityWindFactSheets/RERL_Fact_Sheet_2b_Wind_Economics_Intro.pdf

Jim Boyce mentioned that James Manwell - director of the Renewable Energy team at CEERE - was local expert on FIT.

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