Leases and Easements
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.
How do I lease my land to wind project developers?
Wind developers buy the turbines from the manufacturers, lease the land to place the turbines, construct and operate the development, and sell the electricity to a utility or distribution company. As a landowner, your business role will be to negotiate a contract for the lease of your land to a wind developer.
Electricity from the Wind: What Landowners Should Know
This article from the Wind Powering America program is designed to assist in agricultural outreach efforts. The article gives a quick run down of things landowners should consider before entering into a lease or easement agreement with a wind developer.
Guidelines for Landowners in Negotiating Wind Energy Leases
This speech was given by Bernard Noling of the Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Association in 2003. He goes over suggestions and things to look out for in negotiating a wind lease, and describes how wind leases are similar to mineral leases.
