Wind Power:Gaps in stakeholder understanding

OverviewOverview

It cost nearly 9 million btu to produce electricity in 2009~US Energy Information Administration

“Electricity is the lifeblood of the people” ~Professor Gross Ph.D. in EE and CS

It only cost 4 million btu to produce electricity in 1998

Fossil fueled energy production has side effects

The Earth’s reserve of fossil fuels is limited

The cost of Wind Power has gone down by approximately a factor of twenty in the past few decades

~Professor Gross

OverviewOverviewThe consumption of renewable energy has nearly doubled in the past three decades ~ US EIA

Plans to increase wind energy’s contribution to US electricity supply to 20% by 2030

“Homeowners will pay about 1.7% more…due to Cape Wind” ~National Grid

The Cape Wind Project6 000 000 000$

“Cape Wind will produce 12,047,599 cumulative MW hours and save 6,276,599 tons of CO2”

~Cape Wind

Stakeholder’s Perspective: Dan Pang

OverviewWind Power is:

Renewable

“It feels like they are acting”

“A green earth”

The future

“I know a lot about wind power.”

Reads online

Clean

Overview

Dan Pang

“That’s just how it is.”

“At this point I just want to finish the project”

“That’s beauracracy in our country”

Engineers Without Borders Wind Turbine Group Leader

“You couldn’t hear anything a mile away.”

Stakeholder’s Perspective: Nick Wahoff

Been to a wind farm

Overview

Dan Pang

Nick Wahoff

Stakeholder’s Perspective: George Gross

“It is…an area of tremendous social and economic benefit”

“Wind power is no good”

Pages of data on his computer

“People get angry when they flip the switch and there is no juice”

“The most important thing in the energy industry is reliability”

“Shopkeepers in Costa Rica still keep diesel generators by their shops”

Gaps in Communication

Information is there,But people don’t look

So it stays

On dusty bookshelvesAnd old hard drives

“I know a lot about wind power.” “That’s just how it is.” Pages of data on his computer

Conclusion

1)Wind power: Background2)Stakeholder viewpoints:

1)Dan2)Nick3)Professor Gross

3)Communication gaps.