This has been a harried and hectic week for Rogue River  Wind, what with moving the prototype fabrication to our  new location and keeping abreast of the progress of the  Western Oregon Wind project. Unofficial reports from  Washington indicate that the WOW project has crossed  another hurdle and is moving forward in the Senate, however,  I state this with some trepidation as I have not been able  to get ‘official’ confirmation before we go to press.

Other funding opportunities for WOW, which will provide  an additional $2 million added revenue for local school  districts per year, are being explored at the State level as we  speak. The outlook is still good for funding in this upcoming  fiscal budget cycle but it will be weeks before I will be  able to report anything definitive.  It is not for lack of effort, however, as this project and  the myriad technical and financial and regulatory mazes a  project of this scope must go through are very time consuming.  The benefits of investing in our children, however,  make the effort and the expense well worth it.

Thank you to everyone that has exerted so much effort to  help us get this far in the process and who have offered to  facilitate the long list of bureaucratic steps looming ahead  of us. The plan is to put a website chronicling this project  from start to finish and encourage suggestions, feedback  and provide a list of tasks people may volunteer to do, if  they have the time and ability. The address will be published  when the site is available.