{"id":17805,"date":"2010-09-02T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=17805"},"modified":"2010-09-02T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:53:20","slug":"4h-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/4h-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Wind: Will it Work for You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drs. Steve Harsh and Lynn Hamilton<!--more-->, professor and visiting associate professor, respectively, in MSU\u2019s Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, working with Marilyn Thelen, MSU Extension will host &#8220;Small Wind will it Work for You?&#8221;. The workshop is on Wednesday, September 8, 6 \u2013 9 p.m. at Smith Hall, Clinton County Fairgrounds, 800 Sickles St., St. Johns.<br \/>\nRecent state and federal laws have made wind energy a much better investment than in the past, Hamilton said.<br \/>\n&#8220;One of our goals, through these workshops, is to go over those policy changes and to talk about steps to a successful wind project,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nHamilton and Harsh have developed a Michigan-specific checklist of factors to consider before investing in a wind turbine to help residents determine whether a wind turbine is right for them.<br \/>\nDuring the workshop, case studies will be presented using a small wind economic model and Michigan wind data collected from the MSU anemometer loan program to show what factors make a difference in making a turbine affordable.<br \/>\nAdditionally, the presenters will focus on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP), which provides grants for farms and rural small businesses.<br \/>\n&#8220;More than 70 million in grants have been allocated for 2011 and 2012,&#8221; Hamilton said, &#8220;so we would like to help Michigan farmers and rural small business owners get some of those dollars.&#8221;<br \/>\nFor more information regarding one of the workshop, contact the Clinton County MSU Extension office (989-224-5240) or Hamilton at 517-432-6656. No registration is necessary for these events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drs. Steve Harsh and Lynn Hamilton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}