Landowners and RWE Americas

RWE Americas first meets with landowners to discuss how the project development process works, how the lease agreement works, and how landowners, their families, and their communities can benefit from a wind farm or other renewable energy project. Then, when a landowner is ready to become part of the project, we work with them to reach a lease agreement that allows us to develop, build and operate the project and spells out how the land owner will be compensated over the life of the project. Once an agreement is in place, RWE begins doing all the development activities needed to make the project a reality: measuring the resource, establishing how and where the project will be connected to the grid, and performing all the environmental and other studies needed to secure the permits to build the project.

We can then compare that information to historic data in order to fully understand the renewable energy potential of your land. This measurement process lasts at least one year.

At the same time that RWE is measuring the resource, RWE is working with the transmission system operator to determine how energy from the project can be put into the electric grid.

Next, RWE’s team of engineering professionals works with a wide variety of stakeholders to design the most efficient renewable energy project possible at the site. For a wind farm, when this stage is complete, we can tell you how many turbines will go on your land. Many different factors will affect the final site plan, including resource characteristics, environmental constraints and obstructions, and federal, state and local zoning requirements.

Depending upon the market conditions, RWE may elect to sell the energy on the open market, enter into a contract to sell the energy to a utility, power marketer or commercial client, or market the power through another offtake arrangement.