DES MOINES — The Iowa Wind Energy Asoociation’s Sixth Annual Wind Conference will be held March 25-27 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines.

Iowa Wind Power 2013 planning is well underway with a powerful slate of national, state and industry leaders presenting. Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds are confirmed speakers. The conference will focus on four general themes that reflect the national and world leadership position that Iowa has achieved. Those themes include technology development, small and community wind, operation and maintenance and education training and research. 

General session presentations will focus on national policy and wind energy growth and sustainability issues. Many of these sessions will focus on the utility scale segment of the wind energy industry with a major presentation about transmission development and large scale wind farm deployment in Iowa and the nation.