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The SWCC Board of Directors has established the SWCC Certification Commission to supervise the evaluation of turbines for SWCC Certification. The Commission is composed of three (3), qualified and independent industry experts appointed by the Board of Directors. The Commission has been delegated the authority to review and approve SWT certification applications in consultation with the Technical Director.
Among other responsibilities, and consistent with the SWCC Small Wind Turbine Certification Policy, the Commission:
- Reviews, in consultation with the Technical Director, each certification application and relevant supporting information under the applicable SWCC Certification standards;
- Determines by majority vote whether each certification application is granted, conditionally granted, or rejected;
- Determines whether each certification renewal application is granted, conditionally granted, or rejected;
- Determines whether a Certification Holder must submit a new certification application when a product has been modified;
- Requires the submission of additional application renewal information when appropriate; and,
- Reviews and determines the appropriateness of design changes related to certified small wind turbines.
Current Commissioners
Dr. Nolan Clark, P.E.
Malcolm A. Lodge, P.Eng
Michael Klemen
Dr. Nolan Clark, Agricultural Engineer P.E.
Dr. Clark is a retired agricultural engineer from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research
Service. Dr. Clark conducted research on irrigation technologies and wind energy systems at the USDA
Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas for 38 years. He began his
research career in 1971 and served as the Laboratory Director from 1993 until 2009, when Dr. Clark retired. His
research experience included wind power for irrigation pumping, wind power for domestic and livestock
water pumping, wind turbine performance, wind/hybrid generating systems, wind effects on sprinkler
irrigation, groundwater management, microclimate, plant-water relationships, and animal waste
management. Currently Dr. Clark serves on the Panhandle Regional Water Planning Group as chair of the
Agricultural Water Use Committee. Dr. Clark is a Registered Professional Engineer.
He is a native Texan and received a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Texas Tech University in
1964; an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1967; and a Ph.D in
Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1970. Dr. Clark served as an instructor at Mississippi
State University and as a Research Associate at Texas A&M University before joining USDA-
Agricultural Research Service at the Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland,
Texas, as an Agricultural Engineer.
Dr. Clark received the 1992 Engineering Concept of the Year Award presented by the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers for development of a new and innovative wind turbine; and in 1993, he was
awarded the Academic Award by the American Wind Energy Association for long-term commitment to
world-wide utilization of wind energy technology to meet rural needs. In 2003, Dr. Clark was named a Wind
Energy Pioneer by the DOE Wind Powering America Program and received an Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the American Wind Energy Association in 2005. In 2009, he received an award from the
Wind Powering America Program in recognition of leadership, dedication, and numerous contributions
to small wind turbine applications. Dr. Clark is a member of the American Wind Energy Association and a
Fellow in the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
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Malcolm A. Lodge, P.Eng
Malcolm A. Lodge is founder and President of Island Technologies Incorporated, an electrical engineering and wind energy system consulting and design firm. Malcolm has thirty years experience in wind energy engineering and has designed, managed and
constructed wind energy systems and projects worldwide. He is particularly experienced and knowledgeable in
the field of small wind turbine systems design and of hybrid wind-diesel systems for remote communities. In
1980, Mr. Lodge was founder, designer and manager from 1980 to 1990 of the Atlantic Wind Test Site (AWTS),
Canada's national laboratory for wind energy systems evaluation and testing. During this period he worked
closely with other international wind energy research laboratories in the USA, Denmark, Netherlands, Greece,
and Germany to develop standards for wind turbines and for development of wind-diesel technology.
He has
organized and hosted several international technical workshops on wind-diesel engineering technology and is
recognized worldwide for his expertise in this area of wind energy engineering. From 1969 to 1976 he worked as
chief instructor of electronics and electro-mechanical technology at Holland College in Charlottetown PEI. From
1964 to 1969 he was a product design and development engineer with Canadian Westinghouse Co. Ltd. In this
position he designed and supervised the production of a number of NATO underwater weapons systems and
products and also designed automatic controls for industrial metal working, welding and other production
machines. He is the author of several patents for machine control systems.
Mr. Lodge is founding president of
the Canadian Wind Energy Association and has held many other director positions in other renewable energy
organizations, standards agencies and advisory groups to government. He has been awarded the R.J. Templin
Award for outstanding contribution to the development of Canadian Wind Energy Technology and he is an
active recreational athlete and skis, sail boards and speed skates. He received a Bachelor of Engineering with
Honours Distinction from Nova Scotia Technical College in 1962 and a Masters in Engineering specializing in
Control Systems Design in 1964. He now resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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Michael Klemen
Mr. Klemen holds a joint undergraduate degree in Mechanical
Engineering and Computer Science (ABME) from Bucknell University. He has been doing data
acquisition since 1991. He is presently employed by the North Dakota
University System as Assistant Director for Fin and HRM Systems Development.
Mr. Klemen has been interested in renewable energy for over two
decades. After college, he installed renewable energy systems for
his brother and sister, and his hobby farm has been off-grid
powered by a hybrid wind/PV system since he purchased it 15 years
ago. The particular model of wind turbine he flew at his
brother's and sister's sites didn't work as advertised. Given his
background in engineering and computer science, it was a natural
progression to install data acquisition systems at all three
sites. After many hours crunching the data and analyzing how it
was performing, he was able to reverse engineer the different
failures they had. Over the years, he has flown about a dozen
turbines, and several manufacturers have sent him turbines to fly
and test for them.
He wrote an article in 1997 for Home Power Magazine (#62) and has been
a member of the small-wind-home list on YahooGroups! since 1998, which
was formerly moderated by AWEA (he is the current moderator). In 2002,
he presented at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's annual energy
fair. In 2003, he was on the Board of Directors for ND SEED (North Dakota Sustainable Energy for Economic Development). In 2004, he presented the
results of what he has learned analyzing his data at AWEA's Global WindPower
conference. He was a member of the working group that created the AWEA
Small Turbine Testing Standards, and in 2008 was invited to present at
the Small Wind Turbine Testing Organization Workshop hosted by NREL at
the NWTC (National Wind Technology Center).
He comes to the SWCC as an extremely educated consumer who understands how to interpret raw data. He hopes that every small wind turbine owner has a good experience with the installation.
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