While growing numbers of energy providers see wind farms as viable alternatives to coal-burning power plants, more extensive wind farm development is limited by a common problem: the logistics of delivery. Simply put, these massive wind turbines are delivered and then assembled on site with clusters of 150-foot-long propeller blades. Standard 18-wheel trucks are too small to handle the job and they raise safety issues.

Because wind farm sites are remote and logistically difficult to approach, the sheer size of the monolithic wind turbine requires a rare and highly specialized delivery vehicle. With less than 100 such vehicles in existence in the US, wind farm developers face long waiting periods for delivery and daunting transportation fees. Both of which heap unnecessary hurdles in the path of wind farm development.

Partnership

WindRoads, a Denver-based partnership of non-partisan Republicans and Democrats, was formed to provide at least a partial solution for wind turbine delivery. WindRoads – and its principal partners Mark Hogan, Ed Thomas and Michael Nelligan – intend to help America in its goal to reduce carbon-based omissions by 20 percent in the next 20years.

How We Got Started

Inspired by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore’s stance on global warming and the movie An Inconvenient Truth as well as other environmental issues, Michael Nelligan, trucking industry CEO and former Chairman of the Denver Republican Party, joined forces with Mark Hogan - former Colorado Lt. Governor, legislative Majority Whip and Colorado Chairman of the Democratic Party - and former Denver city councilman Ed Thomas, former law enforcement official and corporate security consultant. Together they launched a revolutionary business plan to put WindRoads Transport, and wind-based energy reserves, all over the national map.