Clipper Windpower to Install 2.5 MW Wind Turbines at University of Minnesota for Conducting Wind Energy Research

Clipper Windpower, Inc., a wind turbine manufacturing and wind project development company, has been chosen to enlist in a powerhouse group comprising industry and scholastic leaders, to assist the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in accomplishing a target of 20% wind power generation all over USA. The task of the group will be supported by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

Clipper will install its 2.5 MW C96 Liberty wind turbine standing over 130 meters in height at the UMore Park property in Rosemount, MN, a field site in the University of Minnesota. The university is one of the three institutions across the country selected to get a U.S. Department of Energy’s wind energy research grant. Clipper’s association with the consortium will continue all through the summer months to enable the research team to make visits to its head quarters in Carpentaria, California, and its manufacturing facilities located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Clipper, in turn, will arrange the visits of its official to the park site to help the researchers at the university.

Amir Mikhail, Clipper Wind Power’s senior vice president of engineering, said that the participation in the federal sponsored wind energy research provides openings for mutual cooperation and technological improvement. He added that as a member of the consortium, his company will find ways to improve the performance of the wind turbines and will be engaged in educating the engineering students at the university about wind industry.