Traverse City, MI: Community Wind Project
Traverse City, Michigan was the first municipal utility in the state to install a utility scale turbine in 1996.
Commercial (Large) Scale
Mackinaw City, MI: Community Wind Project
Two turbines were installed in 2001 on old sewer spray fields to help power Mackinaw City, Michigan.
Algona, IA: Iowa Distributed Wind Generation Project
There are three turbines in Algona, Iowa owned by a consortium of municipal utilities.
Lamar, CO: Community Wind Project
Lamar Light and Power in Lamar, Colorado and partnered the Arkansas River Power Authority (ARPA) to develop their community wind project.
Wind Energy Easement and Lease Bibliography
This document lists a variety of useful resources related to wind energy lease and easement agreements. We will regularly update this document when we find new resources.
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Wind Energy Land Agreements: Best Practices and Policy Recomendations
The Wind Easement Workgroup developed a list of recommended policies and practices for facilitating orderly and sustainable wind energy development. These policies are designed to protect landowners, enhance economic development opportunities in wind energy, and broaden access to wind energy market information.
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Compensation Packages for Wind Energy Land Agreements
This short paper summarizes published information about compensation packages for landowners and discusses the factors that seem to drive compensation levels. It also highlights several more detailed stories about land agreements for specific projects around the country.
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Wind Energy Easement and Lease Agreement Guidelines
This expanded document covers wind energy land leases as well as wind energy easements and features updated information on provisions, recommendations, and items to watch out for.
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Leases and Easements Project Summary
This is a summary of Windustry's Leases and Easements Project. Click on the link below to read the summary.
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