What Landowners Can Expect from E.ON

The Development Process
E.ON manages all the development processes necessary to bring a project to construction:

Stage 1: Real Estate Agreements
E.ON developers work with landowners to reach a lease agreement. Once agreements are secured with the landowners, E.ON begins a series of development activities.

Stage 2: Wind Assessment
In order to fully evaluate the wind energy potential of your land, E.ON installs one or more meteorological masts on the site and compares and correlates that information to historical data. Wind assessment begins with a year long period of data collection and then continues throughout the development process.

Stage 3: Transmission
E.ON professionals begin assessing transmission pathways for each project in the earliest stages of site selection. E.ON continues intensive transmission analysis throughout the development process to determine how much energy from your area can be delivered into the larger transmission system, and how quickly.

Stage 4: Site Design, Permitting and Real Estate Review
When the quality of the wind resource has been established and a transmission pathway has been identified, E.ON’s experienced professionals will begin designing the wind farm. It is at this stage we can tell you how many turbines we will install on your land and where they will go. Several factors, including wind direction and speed, topography, existing obstructions, and local zoning requirements will affect the final site plan.

Stage 5: Marketing the Power
Depending upon the type of market and market conditions, E.ON may enter into a long-term agreement to sell the energy to a utility, or E.ON may sell the energy on the open market.

Lease Structure
E.ON understands it cannot develop renewable projects without the cooperation and participation of landowners like you. We put a premium on understanding your current land use and working with you to ensure that a wind farm is compatible with your existing operations.  

Compensation
E.ON traditionally works with landowners to reach an agreement that provides a defined development term and, once the project is constructed, a long-term operations period. Typically, landowners receive rent during the development period and ongoing revenue from the sale of energy produced during the operations term. This structure ensures that our interests are aligned. We are incentivized to build the project as quickly as possible, and to find the best market for the power.

Constructing a Wind Farm
Building a wind farm generally takes 6 to 12 months. Construction consists of improving or installing roads capable of transporting turbine parts, excavating and installing foundations, erecting tower sections, installing nacelles, hubs, and blades with cranes, trenching underground cable, and installing a limited amount of overhead transmission line. On all of its projects, E.ON uses modern, utility scale wind turbines that operate smoothly and quietly even in high winds.