Learn the value of your land for a wind farm & list for lease for free
Interested in leasing your land for a wind farm? Are you curious if your property is suitable for wind turbines? If you are already receiving offers, are interested in leasing or selling, or would like to know your property's potential, get a free LandApp property report. If you are interested in receiving offers to lease your land for a wind farm after generating your report, you can list your property for lease for free on LandApp's marketplace with no obligations to accept any offers.
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Wind Farm Leasing Process
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Determine Wind Lease Value
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Landowner looks up property on LandApp, and determines the potential value of a wind farm, and any other resource they are interested in.
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Landowner can partner with a broker to help build a full land report for their property.
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List for Lease for Wind Energy for Free
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Landowners or brokers create listings on the LandApp marketplace, including multiple resource types.
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LandApp provides valuation, supports detailed descriptions, document uploads, and offers expert assistance.
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Listing Shared with Wind Developers
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Once posted, listings appear on LandApp’s marketplace, where wind developers can view them and access landowner contact information.
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Developers are notified of available properties and may reach out with tentative offers to begin negotiations.
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Lease Negotiations With Wind Developer
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Landowners and developers negotiate lease or purchase terms, with LandApp or a broker providing support.
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Landowners choose the best offer and are encouraged to hire an attorney for legal review, with referrals available upon request.
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Closing
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The landowner or representative must mark LandApp listing as 'Leased'.
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Landowner collects payment from the developer.
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Development Phase
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The developer designs the wind farm layout and submits it for regulatory approval.
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Development may stall due to financial or regulatory challenges.
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Construction Phase
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During the construction phase, the wind turbines are being installed and connected to electrical infrastructure.
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This phase can last from 2 months to 1 year.
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Operations Phase
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The wind farm is generating electricity and the landowner receives payment from the wind developer according to their agreement.
Wind Farm Leasing FAQs
LandApp earns revenues through our subscription-based toolkit, which is engineered for energy developers to plan and manage their projects. Energy companies also use LandGate to view landowner listings and evaluate parcels of interest.
Yes - LandApp can provide you with a free estimate that will let you know approximately how much you could receive to lease your land for a wind farm per acre per year. To receive this estimate, landowners must generate their free Property Report by finding their parcel on our map.
When you find your parcel on our map to generate your free property report, the wind lease estimate provided by LandApp for wind energy considers your property's distance to electrical infrastructure (transmission lines and substations), average wind velocity, topography, buildable acreage, ease of access to your property, current and future demand for electricity, state and federal incentives, and more!
The lifespan of new generation wind turbines typically ranges from 20 to 30 years. However, your relationship with a wind energy developer is typically much longer than this. From the option period through the end of a formal lease agreement, your relationship with a wind developer may last anywhere from 30-50 years. Additionally, most wind leases also include an option for the wind developer to extend the lease for a few more years following the completion of the formal lease agreement.
There are many ways that landowners can be paid when they lease their land for wind turbines, and it varies depending on a few different factors. Landowners can also negotiate their wind lease payments.
Most wind leases start with an option period, in which the developer pays you $5 to $50 per acre per year while they do their due diligence to ensure that they can begin construction. Once the wind turbines have been constructed and are generating electricity, wind developers can pay landowners per acre, per turbine, and/ or with royalties. If a wind lease pays on a per turbine basis, the payment amounts are generally determined by the size of the turbine, and by how many megawatts of energy each turbine produces. $5,000-8,000 per megawatt is considered typical.
A wind lease option is an agreement that gives the wind developer the exclusive right to enter into a lease agreement to develop a wind farm on your land. The option period of 2 - 6 years gives the developer time to obtain necessary regulatory permits, enter into power purchase agreements with electricity purchasers, obtain financing, conduct environmental studies, etc.
A wind lease option does not mean you are guaranteed to have wind turbines on your property. Wind developers use a wind lease option to ensure that they will have the exclusive right to enter into a formal wind farm land lease agreement before they invest time and money into their evaluation. During this term, landowners are not permitted to explore other lease options with different developers.
A fixed annual payment for a wind lease is a pre-negotiated amount of money you will be paid annually for your wind farm lease. The number of years is also pre-negotiated and usually 20-25 years, with an option to extend the number of years. Unlike most solar farm lease agreements, there is a good chance that your wind farm lease agreement would also provide for royalty payments to be paid to the landowner. Royalty payments are based on a percentage of the revenue received by the developer.
In a fixed annual rent payment lease, the landowner will not benefit from higher future electricity prices. However, if your lease provides for a royalty payment, your monthly royalty check would increase as the wind farm developer receives increased revenue as electricity prices increase.
You will be responsible for property taxes on the portion of your property that is not developed for a wind farm. The wind farm lease agreement generally provides that the developer will be responsible for the taxes assessed on the wind farm developed lands.
Landowners receiving payments from wind developers can market and sell those future payments for a lump sum up front. Selling future wind lease payments is generally in the best interest of the landowner, since those payments technically decrease in value over time as a result of inflation, and the lease payments are never guaranteed (the developer of the lease can stop operating the wind facility at any time). Property owners list their wind income streams for sale on LandGate for free!
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