Rickerson, Wilson and Robert C. Grace. 2007. The Debate over Fixed Price Incentives for Renewable Electricity in Europe and the United States: Fallout and Future Directions. A White Paper. Prepared for the Heinrich Böll Foundation. http://www.boell.org/docs/Rickerson_Grace_FINAL.pdf This White Paper describes in detail the relative merits of both renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and feed-in tariffs (FIT) in the U.S. and Europe. The paper describes existing RPS and FIT policies and makes an argument for the implementation of additional FIT policies in the U.S. and Europe.

AWS TrueWind, LLC. 2005. An analysis of the impact of large-scale wind generation on the Ontario electricity system. Canadian Wind Energy Association. 19pp. https://ozone.scholarsportal.info/bitstream/1873/1054/1/267559.pdf This analysis contributes to understanding the potential impacts of significantly enhanced wind energy generation on the Ontario electrical grid. It clearly suggests that the addition of 2,000 MW of new wind energy capacity in Ontario is manageable.

Munson, Dick. 2005. An Energy Plan for the Great Lakes. Northeast-Midwest Institute. 14pp. http://www.nemw.org/Great%20Lakes%20energy.pdf This document outlines how Great Lakes states and cities could lead the nation in overcoming legislative and regulatory barriers and enable the region to become the center of power innovation.

Pryor, Scott, Mark Shahinian and Matt Stout. 2005. Offshore Wind Energy Development in the Great Lakes: A Preliminary Briefing Paper for the Michigan Renewable Energy Program. University of Michigan. http://www.erb.umich.edu/Research/Student-Research/Michigan_Offshore_Wind.pdf This briefing paper addresses several issues with respect to offshore wind energy development in the Great Lakes, including wind energy technology, cost of wind energy, benefits of offshore wind and regulatory considerations for offshore wind.

Bradley, David. 2004. A Great Potential: The Great Lakes as a Regional Renewable Energy Source. Greengold Development Corporation. Buffalo, NY. http://greengold.org/wind/documents/88.pdf This report argues that given the huge, usable  areas and significant wind resources of the Great Lakes, the region's entire electrical demand could be readily supplied by offshore wind turbines, at prices similar to and more stable than existing electrical rates.

Hélimax. 2004. Etude sur l'évaluation du potentiel éolien, de son prix de revient et des retombées économiques pouvant en découler au Québec. http://www.canwea.ca/images/uploads/File/Resources/Helimax-Report-FR.pdf This report answers three questions with respect to wind energy in Québec:

1. What is the potential of wind energy in Québec?
2. What would the cost price of wind energy be?
3. What would be the economic benefits of a 1,000 MW and 4,000 MW wind energy development?

Musial W. and S. Butterfield. 2004. Future for Offshore Wind Energy in the United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 16pp. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/36313.pdf This paper presents an overview of U.S. coastal resources, explores promising deepwater wind technology, and predicts long-term cost-of-energy trends.

Owen, Robert H. 2004. Final Report to Wisconsin Focus on Energy on Lake Michigan Offshore Wind Resource Assessment. Superior Safety and Environmental Services, Inc. http://www.focusonenergy.com/data/common/dmsFiles/W_RW_MKTG_LMWindAssessment.pdf This report estimates the offshore wind resource potentially available on Lake Michigan's plateau at shallow water sites within several miles of shore and further out on the Mid-Lake Plateau east of Milwaukee.

Starzinger, George and Matt Svrcek. 2004. Wind Turbine Development: Location of Manufacturing Activity. Renewable Energy Policy Project. http://www.repp.org/articles/static/1/binaries/WindLocator.pdf This study shows Ohio ranking second among all states in the potential to make wind turbines and component parts.  The report estimates nearly 12,000 new Ohio manufacturing jobs could result.

Environmental Law and Policy Center. 2001. Repowering the Midwest: The Clean Energy Development Plan for the Heartland. Chicago, IL. 139pp. http://www.elpc.org/documents/RepoweringtheMidwest.pdf This report  is a blueprint for producing economically robust and environmentally sound electricity in the 21st century by comparing two possible energy futures for the Midwest - one in which the region continues to rely on conventional, or business-as-usual technologies, and a second in which the Midwest unleashes its homegrown clean energy development potential. This report also quantifies the region's untapped energy efficiency and renewable resources and lays out strategies, policies and practices to advance a cleaner electricity future from the industrial Midwest across to the Great Plains.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 1983. Economic Analysis of Wind Turbines in DOE Region V (Great Lakes): A Final Subcontract Report. Draft. No final version of this document is available online.

Environmental Law and Policy Center. Job Jolt: The Economic Impacts of Repowering the Midwest. An Economic Study by the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory for the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Chicago, IL. 14pp. http://www.elpc.org/documents/JobJolt.pdf This document discusses the impact of implementing the Repowering the Midwest Clean Energy Development Plan (see below). It argues that doing so would create more than 200,000 new jobs across the 10-state Midwest region by 2020, up to $5.5 billion in additional worker income, and up to $20 billion in increased economic activity.