http://www.pennfuture.org/

http://www.rnp.org/default.html

http://www.nwseed.org/

http://www.ocgi.okstate.edu/owpi/

http://www.greenenergyohio.org/default.cfm?Flash=true

Wind projects bring significant economic development to their host communities through property taxes, new jobs, and work for local contractors. Wind provides these opportunities while producing clean and efficient power from a local natural resource.

This report was published by the GAO in September 2004. This report talks about current wind power generation in the U.S. and prospects for growth, economic contributions from wind power to farm income and rural communities in ten states, the trade-offs for farmers of owning a wind project vs. leasing land to a wind project, and the USDA's efforts to promote on-farm rural wind development.

This publication was released by the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative (NWCC) in 1997, and describes the direct and indirect economic effects of wind power development through state and regional examples.

Click here to read the report. 

This 1998 issue brief from the Renewable Energy Policy Project discusses how Tribal Governments can use renewable energy to meet the needs of rural electrification, economic development, environmental protection, and an expression of a commitment to balance the human and natural worlds.