Siting Workgroup

The NWCC Siting Workgroup has served as a forum for the discussion of all siting issues, such as environmental impacts, permitting approaches and zoning questions. Addressing both process and substantive considerations related to wind turbine siting, the Workgroup has developed a Wind Energy Facilities Handbook to help decision-makers assure necessary environmental protection and respond to public needs – thereby avoiding costly court challenges, and allowing wind to be a competitive electrical generation resource.

• 2006 Siting Workgroup Blueprint
  January 2006

Siting Publications

• State Siting Guidelines Fact Sheets
  April 2006

• NWCC Wind Energy Siting Case Studies
  June 2005

• Permitting of Wind Energy Facilities: A Handbook
  Revised August 2002

• Permitting Wind Energy Facilities: A Handbook
  March 1998

• Siting Issues for Wind Power Plants
  Issue Brief 3 / Issue Paper 3

Meeting Summaries

• Proceedings of Technical Considerations in Siting Wind Developments: Research Meeting
  December 1-2, 2005 - Washington, D.C.

• Offshore Wind Development Meeting Summary
  July 1-2, 2003 - Washington, DC

• Offshore Meeting Summary
  September 25, 2002 - Washington, DC

• New England Wind Power Siting Workshop Summary
  October 24, 2001 - Boston, Massachusetts

Related Links

• MN Environmental Quality Board's
  Power Plant Siting and Line Routing Program