Local ownership of a wind project accounts for half of its lifetime economic value to the community! You can see the benefits of each development stage when locally owned or managed in the graphic above.
From: Value Creation for Local Communities through Renewable Energies [pdf]
This post originally appeared on ILSR’s Energy Self-Reliant States blog.
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