U. S. Department of Energy Awards
Southwest Windpower The United States Department of Energy (DOE) issued Southwest Windpower,
along with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the “Outstanding
Research and Development Partnership” award. The Department of Energy
issues four awards per year for outstanding contributions to
advancing the mission of its wind energy research and development program. These
awards recognize the program’s outstanding contributions each year in the
areas of research and development partnerships, individual research efforts,
leadership, and technology acceptance. This award specifically recognizes the outstanding contribution that the
company has made to the federal program’s mission of advancing U.S. wind
energy technology though effective partnership with a national laboratory Southwest Windpower received a development partnership contract from NREL in
2000 to develop an innovative, residential wind turbine that reduces or reverses
a consumer’s electrical meter. The new wind turbine will be available to the
general public by the end of 2005, and is expected to offer substantial
improvements in cost effectiveness, ease of installation and use, and quietness
for small wind turbines. This project is lead by David Calley of Southwest
Windpower and Jim Green of NREL. “We are deeply grateful of NREL’s
enthusiastic support and for the dedication of our engineering team to make this
project possible, “ Mr. Calley states. Flagstaff, Arizona based Southwest Windpower is a manufacturer of wind
generators which are used to produce electricity for rural applications such as
remote homes and water pumping and for reducing the monthly electrical bill for
homes connected to the electrical grid. Source: Southwest Windpower
Monday, December 20, 2004
Southwest Windpower was chosen from a field of over forty industry and
university partners currently involved in the DOE Wind Energy Program portfolio
of research and development activities, currently funded at over $40 million per
year.