With a handful of generous benefactors stoking the fires, the fledgling Renewable Energy—Wind Technology Program at Amarillo College is picking up serious steam.

The program has recently received contributions of currency and equipment worth nearly a quarter-million dollars that will bolster scholarship opportunities and hands-on wind-technology learning.

The big-ticket items come courtesy of Clipper Windpower, Inc., and include wind-turbine components—gears, electronics and converters—a hefty shipment valued in excess of $200,000.

Meanwhile, thanks to monetary donations from Texas State Technical College of Sweetwater ($10,000), Edison Mission Group of Wildorado ($7,500), and Amarillo Education Credit Union ($1,000), AC has established a scholarship fund that immediately will impact its wind-technology students.

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