CWEC is a partnership of the University of California and the California Energy Commission. We were established in 2002 to provide a centralized state-level forum for wind power issues, unbound by the traditional constraints of existing government and industry bodies. We are housed on the University of California, Davis campus, leveraging UC Davis' longstanding history of wind power-related efforts and the experience and expertise of its diverse faculty and students. We work in close cooperation with the California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.