300 Million Home Sales Prove It: Wind Turbines Don’t Kill Property Values After All
Yet another study pulls the rug out from under the “property values” argument against wind turbines and utility-scale wind farms.
Yet another study pulls the rug out from under the “property values” argument against wind turbines and utility-scale wind farms.
According to an El Paso County Assessor, property values have increased across the board, rather than diminished, in the wake of the nearby wind farm’s installation. In news picked up by Fox21 News in Southern Colorado — which in and of itself is news, considering Fox’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, has generally set … [continued]
More than any other renewable energy technology, wind farms have encountered heated opposition based solely on the absurd: They affect our health; They impact property values; They look ugly (this one being somehow a valid argument in some countries). However, two new studies have found that wind farms do not … [continued]
The impact of wind farms on the price of houses in proximity has been an issue of hot contention for years now, with advocate groups on both sides of the issue claiming the high scientific ground with competing reports and mounds of anecdotal evidence to boot. A new study conducted … [continued]
Nine major and statistically reliable studies covering roughly 270,000 property transactions by different respected and independent organizations in three different countries spread over fifteen years have found no correlation between operating wind turbines and negative property values (in fact, three found slight but statistically insignificant improvements). Another low reliability study … [continued]
A new comprehensive study — The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis — conclusively shows that property values are not harmed by wind turbines and wind power facilities. The study, conducted by Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory shows that neither … [continued]