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Aug. 25, 2006

Energy Museum to Open Sunday

Oh wowsers, I want to go! I'm going to have to Mapquest this and see how long it will take me to get there. I may not make it this Sunday, but I WILL get there!

According to this article, The Dull Homestead Farm in Brookville, Ohio, turned their farm into an exhibit of alternative energy. It's called the Future Energy Center and features windmills, hybrid cars, and energy saving forms of heating and air-conditioning. It sounds SO cool!

Oh, and look what else I found, when I was googling the Dull Homestead Farm -

Green Energy Ohio presented the

Rural Ohio Wind Development
Workshop & Tour
Seminar on small, community & commercial wind development
at your farm, home or business

September 28, 2005
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

at the

Dull Homestead & Farm
10404 National Road, Brookville, Ohio 45309

Dayton Daily News Oct. 2, 2005 Article Recaps the Workshop

AGENDA (pdf) MAP DIRECTIONS
or scroll down below .

Dull Farm 1
Six 10 kW (small-scale) wind turbines help power the Dull Farm near Dayton

Rural Ohio Wind Development Workshop & Tour
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Interested in Ohio's new cash crop - utility-scale wind power, 91 attended the Or GEO's workshop on Rural Ohio Wind Development on Wednesday, September 28^th beginning starting at 8:30 am at the Dull Homestead, a farming operation near Brookville with six 10 kW small wind turbines - the largest site of 10 kW Bergey wind turbines in the World. Topics included GEO wind testing activities across Ohio, financial assistance, and a panel discussion with professional wind developer and installers that work with wind power. Attendees - mostly farmers from over a dozen Ohio counties - toured the Dull Farm turbines and the nearby Montgomery County Madison Lakes Metropark with integrated solar electric will be conducted in the afternoon.

These Western Ohio wind installations are among the over 30 Ohio Wind Energy Sites that were on the Ohio Solar Tour on Saturday, October 1, 2005. For more information on the tour in your community, click here.

Dayton Daily News Oct. 2, 2005 Article Recaps the Workshop

For the agenda, click here (PDF) or scroll down below.

Thanks to the Ohio Department of Development's Office of Energy Efficiency for their support.

AGENDA

8:30 am Registration

9:00 am Welcome Remarks and Overview
Christina Panoska, Program Manager, Green Energy Ohio

Welcome to the Dull Homestead to gain valuable information on commercial, community and commercial wind development on your land. Learn about the latest technologies, projects and tools for renewable energy through your clean energy resource - Green Energy Ohio (GEO).

9:10 am Ohio Clean Energy Tools & Resources

Ohio Department of Development's Office of Energy Efficiency

Many incentives and resources are available for Ohioans interested in developing renewable energy projects. Learn about financial assistance, net metering, a statewide stakeholder group - Ohio Wind Working Group (OWWG), and a new Anemometer Loan Program.

9:30 am Ohio Wind Assessment Program

Steve Watts, Wind Energy Researcher, Green Energy Ohio

Do you have enough wind to support a small and/or utility-scale wind turbine? Learn about a new program to test the wind resources at several 100-meter "tall towers" sites in rural Ohio, the tallest wind monitoring tower in Lake Erie and the opportunities for future sites. Q&A time is allotted (at least 15 minutes).

10:15 am BREAK

10:30 am Ohio Wind Development - Panel Discussion

Wind energy production is becoming a popular topic in rural Ohio. Several developers are investigating sites across Ohio for the next wind farm while many landowners are installing their own wind or solar electric system to meet their energy needs. Learn about these activities and ask questions.

(10 min) Moderator - Bill Spratley, Executive Director, Green Energy Ohio

"Energy On the Farm"

(30 min) Geoff Greenfield, Installer, Third Sun Solar & Wind Power

(30 min) Tim Vought, Project Manager, Gamesa Energy

(20 min) Q&A

12:30 pm Networking & Box Lunch

1:30 pm Dull Homestead Tour

Ralph Dull, owner, Dull Homestead

The Dull Homestead is a model of modern agriculture with many strides in efficiency and stewardship of the land. The farm features six 10 kW small-scale wind turbines that feed into the farm's 3-phase 208 volt power system to offset the most expensive power used on the farm. The Dulls also designed and constructed an onsite biomass fired seed drying process, eliminating thousands of BTUs of gas previously used for the energy-intensive process. Learn more by taking a tour of the farming operation.

3:00 pm Tour leaves to Montgomery County Renewable Energy Demonstration Center at Madison Lakes (Directions will be provided)
Dave Schmenk, Energy Manager, Montgomery County

Montgomery County recently installed a 2 kW solar electric (photovoltaic - PV) system at Madison Lakes Park on a Renewable Energy Demonstration Center. The PV system is integrated into the existing standing seam metal roof and interconnected with the electrical grid. A wind turbine will complement the solar electric system and take advantage of Ohio's hybrid climate (windy winters and sunny summers). Take a tour and hear more about this exciting project.

5:00 pm END

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