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Lessons Learned in Renewable Energy Development: Challenges and Insights from Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore, a seasoned professional with 25 years of experience in developing and operating renewable energy facilities, shares insights from the Southwest Renewable Energy Conference. Focusing on critical elements such as health and safety, ordinances, and community concerns, he addresses key issues including visual impact, sound management, and property value implications. He emphasizes that properly defined ordinances can serve as valuable roadmaps for project permits, while also noting that setbacks have complex, exponential impacts on development. His expertise spans projects across multiple states, highlighting the importance of proactive community engagement.

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Lessons Learned in Renewable Energy Development: Challenges and Insights from Christopher Moore

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  1. Lessons LearnedChristopher Moore Southwest Renewable Energy Conference September 15, 2010

  2. Agenda • Bio • Obligatory Commercial • Ordinances • Primary Issues • Health & Safety Issues • Other Issues • Final Points

  3. Christopher Moore • 25 years developing, building and operating power plants • Natural Gas, Diesel, Biomass, Wind • Renewables since 2001 • Amoco, Alliant, Reliant, Gamesa, small IPPs • Projects in 20 states

  4. Nature Energies Inc. • Small firm based in Rochester, MN • Develop, own, and operate • Wind in MN, AZ • Solar in CA, AZ • Biomass in CA

  5. Nature abhors a vacuum and developers abhor an ordinance? • No ordinance – Great, maybe • Raises the bar for subsequent applicants. • A defined ordinance, while perhaps initially intimidating, provides the road map to a permit.

  6. Critical Elements • Primary Issues • Physical impacts for groups • Health and Safety Issues • Physical impacts for individuals • Other Issues • Local issues

  7. Primary Issues

  8. Visual Impact

  9. Visual Impact - a matter of perspective

  10. Sound • Easily modeled • Less easily described • Illinois treats sound as pollution • Type of sound • Type of Source to type of Receiver • Time of day limits • Best method is to visit a wind farm

  11. Property Values • REPP study – 2003 (repp.org/articles/static/1/binaries/wind_online_final.pdf ) • LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY Study – 2009 (eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/reports/lbnl-2829e.pdf ) • Private studies – 2004-2007, completed as part of permit hearings • No negative impact on property values

  12. Health and Safety Issues

  13. Health and Safety • Individual impacts • Subjective • Resonates because most Charters require the protection of the health and safety of the community. • Resolution is setbacks

  14. Setbacks • Early development – setbacks consisted of two areas, safety zone and annoyance zone. • Annoyance zone has expanded • The annoyance is measured linearly, but the impact of setbacks is exponential.

  15. Setbacks Map Green = Signed land Yellow = Road (500’) and Residences (1500’) Orange Line = Property line setbacks

  16. Setbacks Map Total area in this example = 12 square miles Total leased area = 8 square miles (66%) Land available for siting turbines = 1.9 square miles (16%)

  17. Setbacks Map Properties eliminated from potential for turbine siting.

  18. Other Issues These are the actual project construction standards

  19. Final Points • Ordinances are beneficial • Group issues are what people care about • Health issues are what get raised • Setbacks have an exponential, not linear, impact • The actual construction of the project is almost an after thought.

  20. Questions Christopher Moore Nature Energies 2720 Superior Drive NW, #103 Rochester, MN 55901 chris.moore@nature-energies.us 612.749.4236

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