WANTED: Wind Developers

CPWEA's main goal is to connect landowners with wind developers. Currently, we are working on creating a list of interested developers so that we can provide their names to landowners who don't have their land leased for wind development but are interested in doing so.

Its important to note that most of our landowners have really great relationships with their neighbors, making it mighty easy to get large contiguous blocks of land together for development. Our association is made of mostly of landowners in Hale, Floyd and Motley Counties, an area that's ranked as class 4 winds (just in case you were wondering). Our association has maps available for developers to check out; we have our members' land marked and let me just say, there is a lot of interest in wind development.

What we want to do is whatever we can to get developers connected with landowners. Not just any developer though, it is very important to us to connect our landowners with developers who understand their needs and wants, a developer who will be sensitive to landowner concerns and who isn't merely in the business to make a buck, but wants sincerely to help out rural communities.

One thing we have starting doing is to feature developers who we think our landowners would like to work with in our monthly newsletter. We would like to continue doing so, so if you know a developer out there who you think would be a good fit, please contact me or leave a comment on this post.

Many developers seem to be waiting until the new transmission lines are built in the area before they make any significant actions towards developing a wind farm, but getting your name out there with landowners could never hurt. The first step in having a successful development is creating a good relationship with landowners; we can help developers with that step.

We would also like to work on getting a list together of local contractors or other companies who could be involved in the development process when the time comes. Hopefully we can provide developers with this list and bring work to local companies. If you fall into this category, please contact me as well because other than bringing in wind development to our area one of our main goals is to strengthen our local communities!

Until next time...