A co-founder of Bergey Windpower Co. and its’ president since 1987, Mike Bergey is a mechanical engineer (Univ. of Oklahoma) and an internationally recognized expert in the fields of small wind systems, distributed generation, and clean energy policy. He holds one patent, has authored more than 70 technical papers and articles in the field, has testified at several Congressional hearings, and has served as a consultant to a number of U.S. and international agencies. He has twice served as president of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and served on the AWEA Board of Directors from 1981 to 2007. He chaired the AWEA Small Wind Turbine Committee for more than 20 years and authored AWEA’s 2002 “U.S. Small Wind Turbine Industry Roadmap: A 20-year Industry Plan for Small Wind Technology”. In 1994 he was recognized as the “Wind Industry Man of the Year” by AWEA. In 1981 he was recognized by AWEA for development of the “AWEA Performance Rating Standard”, which was the basis for the IEC 61400-12 performance testing standard used for all wind turbines worldwide. He chaired the AWEA Small Wind Standards Committee for 30 years and led the development of the 2008 AWEA small wind certification standard, AWEA 9.1-2009, (also adopted with minor changes in the U.K., Japan, and Canada). He was a co-chair of the AWEA/ACP Small Wind Standards Committee that revised AWEA 9.1-2009 to reduce its burden on innovation. The revised U.S. national standard, ACP-101-1-2021, was approved by ANSI in 2022. Mr. Bergey was a founder and the first president of the Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA), the trade association of the U.S. distributed wind industries. He is currently in his sixth term as DWEA president. He was the principal author of DWEA’s 2015 industry strategic plan “Distributed Wind Vision, 2015-2030” and has authored numerous white papers and policy briefs for DWEA. He is a past chairman of the U.S. Export Council for Renewable Energy, past member of the Dept. of Commerce’s Environmental Technology Trade Advisory Council, and past president of the Oklahoma Renewable Energy Council. In 2003 Mr. Bergey served on Oklahoma Governor Henry’s EDGE Committee, which prepared a strategic plan for economic development in Oklahoma. He then served two terms on the Governor’s Council for Workforce and Economic Development. He served on the Norman, OK Chamber of Commerce Board from 2003 – 2010 and was the Chamber president in 2008. He has served on the boards of numerous civic and charitable organizations in Norman and Central Oklahoma.