Alaska Wind for Schools installed two wind turbines in 2010 in the communities of Juneau and Sitka. Please visit the U.S. Coast Guard CEU Juneau and Mt. Edgecumbe sites to learn more about their projects and to see real time data from the energy monitoring system.

Begich Middle School takes steps to install a turbine at their school in Anchorage.  Click here to learn more!

Wind for Schools - Alaska brochure

Curricula - Wind for Schools Educational Program

Wind for Schools FAQ

The Alaska Wind-Diesel Applications Center has partnered with the Renewable Energy Alaska Project to implement the national Wind For Schools program in Alaska.

The program installs small wind turbines in rural elementary and secondary schools while developing Wind Application Centers at higher education institutions. This two-tier approach offers workforce development opportunities and hands-on science education for a wide range of ages.  

Teacher training and hands-on curricula are implemented in each school to bring energy lessons into the classroom through interactive and interschool wind-related research tasks. 

College students at the Wind Application Centers assist in the assessment, design, and installation of the small wind systems at the host schools, acting as wind energy consultants. They also participate in class work and other engineering projects in the wind energy field, preparing them to enter the energy workforce once they graduate.

This effort requires collaboration from stakeholders throughout the state including outreach coordinators, Renewable Energy Alaska Project, and other groups such as Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, Yukon Intertribal Watershed Council, and Western Community Energy, among others.  

This statewide team supports individual communities to form action plans for their schools. ACEP is also coordinating with national partners, Wind Powering America and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) who launched the first Wind for Schools project in 2005.

The program is open to any school in the state who meets the success criteria. Schools across Alaska are currently in various stages of planning.  The first Alaskan school to install a turbine was Sherrod Elementary in Palmer. Click here for Sherrod Wind Turbine live production data.

Please contact us for information on how to bring this program to your school. Application forms can be downloaded here.

 

Wind Powering America sponsors the Wind for Schools Project which is intended to raise awareness of the benefits of wind in rural communities.  A cookie cutter approach is used, to the greatest extent possible, in order to keep a basic and common configuration for all schools.  This includes the installation of a small wind turbine, specifically the SkyStream 3.7,  at a K-12 school.  A curriculum which matches the SkyStream wind turbine has already been established and utilizes the NEED program.  There are numerous schools throughout the state of Alaska which are in the planning phases of implementing the Wind for School program into their school.  In every state a Wind Energy Center is utilized to monitor and provide technical assistance to the schools as needed.  WiDAC has already assumed this role and will continue to promote and encourage this program.