Community Wind Toolbox


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. Click here for more acknowledgements and information about the project partners.

The Toolbox is free to use, but you have to be registered on our website to access it. Click here to register.

If you're already registered, use the form in the left sidebar to log in. You can then click on the links below to access the different sections of the toolbox as web pages. You can also download sections or the entire Toolbox as PDFs by clicking on the last link.

The Community Wind Toolbox

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