Video: Highlights from First ISU Wind Energy Symposium

Iowa State drives green technologies with First ISU Wind Energy Symposium

Patti Lewis
Phone: 515 294-6617
E-mail: windenergy@iastate.edu

Get Wind of Iowa’s Energy Future at Iowa State!

With the world’s marketed energy consumption projected to grow by 50% over the next 20 years, the U.S. Department of Energy has challenged the nation to produce 20% of its total power from wind by 2030. Given the Obama administration’s focus on climate change, the imperative to produce energy from wind and other nonpolluting, renewable resources will only become stronger in the years to come.

As one of the leading wind energy-producing states in the nation, Iowa is key to any effort to realize the DOE’s 2030 target. And, as an institution dedicated to science and technology, Iowa State is particularly well positioned to play a central role in the research and development of wind technologies to help America realize not only its 2030 goals, but the broader goals of the College of Engineering’s 2050 Challenge as well.

On December 9, 2008, the College of Engineering hosted the “1st ISU Wind Energy Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities” in order to begin the work of drawing a road map that will better define Iowa State’s role in this rapidly evolving energy sector. In addition to representatives from the Department of Energy and the American Wind Energy Association, as well as industry leaders from John Deere, Siemens, Mid-American Energy, and Clipper Windpower, Iowa State research faculty led discussion panels on wind turbine systems, manufacturing and deployment, and infrastructure and delivery—all areas with developing or active research projects at Iowa State.

So if you’re a researcher, policy maker, or industrial leader with an interest in energy, we invite you to join this effort. Use the links at left to contact us for more information, and check this site periodically for updates, including the next Wind Symposium, with dates and details to be announced in fall 2009.