Building a Community Wind Project: A Landowner’s Perspective

My family has been on our land for 77 years – my dad rented it, and eventually my brother David and I bought it along with some surrounding land. Besides farming, we’ve been in the commercial fertilizing and spraying business for 30 years and have spent many, many hours sitting around waiting... Read More

Financing Offshore Wind Farms in the U.S.

As most readers are aware, the first major U.S. offshore wind farm to begin development was the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. The project has been in the development phase for over a decade. The rest is here: Financing Offshore Wind Farms in the U.S.  Read More →

It Takes a Community To Raise a Wind Farm

While much has been made about the challenges that arise with large-scale power plants attempting to connect to the U.S. power grid through transmission and substations, relatively little has been said when it comes to smaller-scale renewable energy projects, such as community wind projects, trying... Read More

Wind Farm Contracting and Financing

In this time of ongoing technical, economic and political change, investors and lenders continue to take a cautious approach to determining whether to provide financing for a U.S. wind project. One key to the profitable development of wind projects is the efficient negotiation of financeable project... Read More

A Buoyant Future for Floating Wind Turbines?

In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry: developers seeking higher quality wind resources and turbines growing in size. Read more here: A Buoyant Future for Floating Wind Turbines?  Read More →

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