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The Australian Wind Energy Institute Education project features an Online Campus that allows registered students to gain access to course materials and other relevant study and industry training materials to assist their studies. The Campus is actively linked to the Australian Wind Energy Institute research program.

Green Wind Schools Project

The AWEI is working on a kit to assist individual households and the education sector in assessing the relative cost advantages that arise from installing hybrid domestic wind and solar energy generating systems coupled with low voltage appliance and lighting conversion technologies. This work is linked to the various green schools projects promoted by state and local authorities. One of the main aspects of the project is to demonstrate the lower cost and higher energy yield capacity delivered through wind energy compared to current solar technology for individual dwellings and small industries. One of the aspects of this project is to lobby for support of small scale wind generating capacities at local community as well as the various state government levels as as cheaper alternative to solar power and extract energy concessions equal to those offered to the more expensive solar technologies.

One of the key elements to carbon reduction in individual households, multi-story apartment blocks, office buildings and schools is the concept of energy efficiency. Cheap school construction methods, the so called design by panel to a price model is commonly sold to school communities on the grounds of providing modern flexible learning spaces. This nonsense defies the fundamental logic of education as a process. Learning takes place anywhere and so called spaces that are designed to enhance it are nonsense. The only rational sense to designing educational spaces is to make teaching as a process to assist learning as conducive to individual learning needs as possible. The reality of modern school design is that it is generally design based upon a formula to construct cheap buildings with  a 30 year life span. That fact that communities within which these school buildings exist continue to change for far longer time frames then 30 years, suggests that education planners might consider working on longer term urban population models in conjunction with local councils. The AWEI actively supports and provides schools with support in changing their current energy usage patterns by combining low energy lighting with energy storage technology that can easily be connected to small wind turbines at lower costs then their solar equivalent. 

Wind Energy Jobs in other Countries

American Example:

Wind energy is a burgeoning industry. In 2007, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), 3,200 new wind turbines were installed across the nation as power companies responded to the push for more green energy. That translates to a 45% growth in the nation’s total wind power generating capacity in a single calendar year. AWEA predicts 2008 will equal 2007 in new wind capacity installed. (www.awea.org) In South Dakota, the MinnDakota Wind Farm, operated by PPM Energy, was completed last year, more than doubling the state’s wind energy output. Other projects are in various stages of development including the ACCIONA Energy Tatanka Wind Farm, to be located in McPherson County, the Buffalo Ridge Wind Farm to be located in White, and a Wessington Springs regional project. As any South Dakota resident could guess, the potential for the state to produce energy from wind is among the best in the nation. South Dakota ranks fourth in the U.S. (behind only North Dakota, Texas, and Kansas) in wind energy potential, making South Dakota’s outlook for continued development of wind energy extremely promising. (www.awea.org) New turbines mean new jobs for skilled South Dakotans. A general rule is that a two-person operation and maintenance team is needed for every 10 turbines. That means that trained wind turbine technicians are in big demand – in South Dakota and throughout the Midwest.

Physical blade stress analysis maintenance and working at extreme height requires special safety equipment and harnesses.

Turbine Efficiency

Software training in Siterra, Wind Farmer, Scada, and other relevant software programs coming soon.

GH Bladed software training coming soon.

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