NEW Anemometer Loan Program

Arkansas Energy Office, John Brown University develop anemometer loan program 

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (May 15, 2009)

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Energy Office and the Renewable Energy Department at John Brown University have partnered to develop an anemometer loan program designed to allow land owners in Arkansas to measure wind energy potential.  

Through the program, selected participants will borrow wind measurement instrumentation to conduct a one-year measurement study on their site. Initially, the program will supply four 34-meter meteorological stations with the equipment necessary to measure and record wind speed and direction. Faculty and students from the Renewable Energy Program at John Brown University will install the equipment and monitor the data from their campus in Siloam Springs. They will also develop a wind resource analysis for each participant at the end of the measurement period.  Once the one-year measurement period is completed and the data is collected, the equipment will then be relocated to other selected participants. 

More details about the selection criteria and participant obligations – as well as downloadable application forms – are available here.  The Anemometer Loan Program accepted applications from June 1, 2009 through July 31, 2009 for the 2009-2010 loan period.  The four final locations have been selected and installations are underway (click here to learn more).  Applications for the second year of the program will be accepted during the summer of 2010. 

Funding for the Arkansas Anemometer Loan Program comes from both the State of Arkansas and the Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America Program.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

  • Jenny Ahlen, Renewable Energy Programs Coordinator, Arkansas Energy Office, Arkansas Economic Development Commission, 501-682-2460, jahlen@arkansasedc.com 
  • Fernando Vega, Director, Renewable Energy Program, John Brown University, 479-238-8743, fvega@jbu.edu

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