Landowners can measure wind energy in Arkansas

ARKANSAS: State's wind energy potential to be measured by new program

Arkansas land owners will be able to measure the wind energy potential on their land under a new anemometer loan program from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission's Energy Office and the Renewable Energy Department at John Brown University.

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.

The Anemometer Loan Program will begin accepting applications on June 1, 2009. The deadline to apply for consideration in the first program year is July 31, 2009. Installations are scheduled to begin in August 2009.

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