SE CERT: Getting the Best Wind Agreement - A Seminar for Landowners

Release Date: 06/12/2008

Contact:
Joel Haskard, Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) Co-Coordinator
U of M’s Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships
612-625-8759
haska004@umn.edu

Southeast CERT Meeting in Partnership with Southwest Initiative Foundation, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, and Alliant Energy

Blooming Prairie, MN—June 12, 2008—The purpose of this meeting is to educate the audience on wind rights and development choices, on how to ensure you get a fair agreement, on your options, about where to access resources for advice, and on some sense of the “big picture” and why this is an opportunity.

When: June 25th, 2008, from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Where: The Serviceman’s Club, 204 4th St NE
Blooming Prairie, MN 55917, (507) 583-7884

Agenda:
6:30pm: Welcome – Pam Bishop, Program Specialist, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
6:40pm: The Big Picture & Why this is an Opportunity – Lissa Pawlisch, CERTs Coordinator and Pam Bishop, Program Specialist, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
6:50pm: Rural Energy Development Initiative (REDI), C-BED and Disbursed Generation Study overview – Cheryl Glaeser, Program Specialist, Southwest Initiative Foundation
7:10pm: Risks and Rewards: From leasing your land to owning your own project – Melissa Peterson, Program Analyst, Windustry
7:35pm: Business Tactics: Getting the Best Agreement for Landowners
      – George Crocker, Executive Director, North American Water Office
      – Jeff Cook-Coyle, Vice President, Development, Nature Energies
      – Craig Byram, attorney, law firm of Hoversten, Johnson, Beckmann & Hovey
      – Dave Brunsvold, project development manager, Wind Capital Group
8:30pm: Adjourn

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The Clean Energy Resource Teams are a joint program of the University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, the Southwest Regional Development Commission, the Minnesota Project, Minnesota Department of Commerce, and the Green Institute. The CERTs program brings together team members from diverse backgrounds including farmers, utility representatives, state and federal government staff, educators and academics, small business owners, members of non-profit and environmental groups as well as individuals interested in energy issues. Together they work to identify and implement community-scale energy efficiency and renewable energy projects across the state. Major funding is provided by Minnesota Department of Commerce, The Blandin Foundation, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, University of Minnesota Institute for Renewable Energy and the Environment, University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, and U.S. Department of Energy.