Anemometer Loan Program

Now Accepting Applications for 2010

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Energy Office and the Renewable Energy Department at John Brown University have partnered to develop an anemometer loan program designed to allow land owners in Arkansas to measure wind energy potential.  

Through the program, selected participants will borrow wind measurement instrumentation to conduct a one-year measurement study on their site. Initially, the program will supply four 34-meter meteorological stations with the equipment necessary to measure and record wind speed and direction. 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 is now accepting applications from July 1, 2010 through August 15, 2010 for the 2010-2011 loan period. More details about the selection criteria and participant obligations – as well as downloadable application forms – are available here.   

Funding for the Arkansas Anemometer Loan Program comes from both the State of Arkansas and the Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America Program.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

• JD Lowery, Renewable Energy Programs Manager, Arkansas Energy Office, Arkansas Economic Development Commission, 501-682-7678, jdlowery@arkansasedc.com  
• Fernando Vega, Director, Renewable Energy Program, John Brown University, 479-238-8743, fvega@jbu.edu