Welcome to the Community Wind Toolbox.

The Community Wind Handbook offers high-quality practical information for farmers and rural landowners looking to develop commercial-scale wind projects.

The core content of this Toolbox comes from The Community Wind Handbook, developed by Windustry on behalf of the Rural Minnesota Energy Board and published December 15, 2006 by a partnership of the Agriculture Utilization Research Institute, the Southwest Initiative Foundation, The Minnesota Project, Clean Energy Resource Teams, and the Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council.

Read the full acknowledgements and information about the project partners.

The following links connect to web versions of the Toolbox chapters. Each chapter and the entire Toolbox are also available in Adobe Portable Document (PDF) format.

The Community Wind Toolbox

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Community Wind Development Overview and Checklist
• Chapter 3: Community Wind Project Planning and Management
  • Wind Project Calculator
• Chapter 4: Wind Resource Assessment
• Chapter 5: Siting Guidelines
• Chapter 6: Permitting Basics
• Chapter 7: Leases and Easements
• Chapter 8: Costs Associated with Community Wind Development
• Chapter 9: Financing Community Wind Projects
• Chapter 10: Tax Incentives
• Chapter 11: Choosing a Business Model
• Chapter 12: The Minnesota Flip Business Model
• Chapter 13: Power Purchase Agreement
• Chapter 14: Interconnection - Getting Energy to Market
• Chapter 15: Turbine Selection and Purchase
• Chapter 16: Public Policy for Community Wind

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Individuals are permitted to download and print the Community Wind Toolbox for personal use. No distribution or commercial use of the Community Wind Toolbox in any format is permitted.