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Since entering this new century, our global society has faced unprecedented challenges in energy production. It is more urgent than ever to address our ever increasing thirst for energy and the resultant environmental impact caused by the energy production. Today, electricity is one of the most common commodities of energy. The generation of electricity is, consequently, one of the largest global sources of environmentally concerning emissions. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the overall electric power consumption in the United States has increased from 3302 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 1997 to 3974 billion kWh in 2008. As a result, more than 2477 million metric tons of CO2 were emitted in 2008 simply due to electricity generation, which accounts for about 40% of the U.S. total annual CO2 emissions. In his 2011 address of the State of Union, President Obama mentioned an ambitious goal of achieving 80% of electricity from clean energy sources by 2015 [1]. A majority of states in the U.S. have passed Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which set aggressive goals to achieve given percentages of electricity generated from renewables by particular deadlines [2]. To address the aforementioned challenges and to achieve the clean energy goals, given the ecological and social stagnation that we are experiencing in our urban centers, we will have to come up with innovative, cost effective, community energizing and ecologically friendly complementary additions and alternatives to our traditional power generation methods. Before introducing what we call the Detroit and Southeastern Michigan Community Wind Power Cooperative Model (henceforth referred to as the “Detroit model”), we shall first describe the traditional community wind farm model upon which it is historically based. We shall also include some of the key refinements and improvements made to the traditional model which subsequently led to the development of the Detroit Model, in order to first familiarize the reader with the foundational concepts of community wind. Traditionally, community based wind power has involved placing medium to large commercial sized (250 kW-2MW) wind turbines into rural settings to provide electric power for local communities or to be sold externally to make a profit or both. These turbines range in height from 150 to 425 feet and have rotor diameters of between 100 300 feet [8]. There have been many forms of ownership throughout the history of community wind, however the most prevalent forms, and for our purposes, most important one’s have

Community Wind Power – A Tipping Point Strategy for Driving Socio-Economic Revitalization in Detroit and Southeast Michigan