North Carolina Report

Wind Powering America

All States Summit

May 22, 2003

Key Activities for 2003

State Wind Map GIS Analyses Attitude Surveys Home Wind Workshop With Mick Sagrillo Wind Summit Anemometer Loan Program Wind Working Group Fact Sheets Web Site: www.wind.appstate.edu Macro Avian Impact Assessment

North Carolina Wind Map

Western NC Wind Assessment Work

Class @ 50m

Power Density (W/m2)

Area (acres) Percentage of Total

1 - < 100 3,889,086 59.32

1 + (100, 200] 1,895,923 28.92

2 (200, 300] 473,175 7.22

3 (300, 400] 159,767 2.44

4 (400, 500] 68,013 1.04

5 (500, 600] 30,374 0.46

6 (600, 800] 24,275 0.37

7 > 800 15,419 0.24

>= 2 (200, > 800] 771,024 11.76

>= 4 (400, > 800] 138,000 2.1

Land Areas of Wind Power Classes in 24 Western NC Counties

Watauga, Ashe & Avery Counties

Wind Resource Analysis by County Top 5 Counties in Western NC

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2-7 4-7

Haywood 99484 36769 19294 9360 4576 5120 3242 78361 22298

Watauga 93356 47809 14302 5396 2303 1729 939 72480 10368

Buncombe 191061 33596 13976 6592 3182 2688 2668 62705 15132

Ashe 184824 40000 9162 4190 1877 1877 1166 58277 9113

Avery 79528 27804 9281 4210 2352 1739 1107 46495 9409

acres

County Wind Maps

Coastal North Carolina

Attitude SurveyAmount of future electricity from wind

Don't knowMoreSameLess

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60

40

20

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75

96

Placing turbines on national forests should

be prohibited or not prohibited

Don't knowNot prohibitedYes, prohibited

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nt

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

14

51

36

Should a person be prohibited from erecting

a single turbine on own land

No opinionDependsNOYES

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nt

100

80

60

40

20

09

79

9

Problem With Turbines

PROBLEM1

political/legal prob

environmental dam

age

reliability

otherbirds

noisesafety

location

visual pollut ion

lack of information

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80

60

40

20

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1714

21

1116

11

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Home Wind Workshop

Wind Monitoring Activities

ASU/TVA Collaboration

Anemometer Loan Program

Home Scale Turbines in NC

Workshop Brochure

Macro Avian Impact Assessment

Potential Avian Impacts of Wind Energy Development in

Western North Carolina: A Literature Reviewprepared by

Curtis Smalling

Ecos of the Blue Ridge667 George Moretz Lane

Boone, NC 28607

For

North Carolina State Energy Office&

US Department of Energy

January 2003

Class 2 and Above