NMSU Team attends WEATS in Boulder Colorado
The NMSU team and two students from the ITESM team speak of their experience while participating in the WEATS training program:
When we went to WEATS we participated in a weeklong training session, over small and large wind industries. This includes project management and current market opportunities such as green tax and net metering. We were also exposed to where the industries current standings, and where their main focuses lie, such as renewable energy on Native American land along with the piece of the pie that renewable energy will input to the overall energy demand of the US. We visited and toured the NREL facility and went to the pinoquen wind farm near the Colorado and Wyoming border. We also learned about the benefits that wind energy has towards the environment. The admissions of green house gasses into the atmosphere and global warming have been a growing concern in the world and electricity produced through the wind does not result in harmful substances getting released into the air..
Robert Foster and the NMSU and ITESM teams at Aragonne Mesa Wind Project Site |
 NMSU and ITESM teams at Ponnequin |