WONDER WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A WIND DEVELOPER? We found this description of 'a day in the life of an assistant wind developer' on a career information website. ( Click here to read it at the source) We follow it with a description of a day in the life of a family living with what wind developers leave behind. 8:00 a.m. : After waking up in the Holiday Inn in a remote part of Iowa, you get in your rented SUV and drive into town to have a breakfast meeting at the local diner with the mayor. Your development team has optioned a hilltop in the area for developing a windpower facility, and you are now in the process of negotiating a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT agreement) with the town. It's probably going to end up being a new fire truck, school playground, and the new access road you will be constructing anyway up to your site. You are flying solo on this meeting, confirming the outline of the agreement with the mayor and putting in some time to continuing to build this crucial relationship. 10:00 a.m. : You drive up to the site to take a look around and call on the farmer who owns the land. The two of you take a walk around the fields together, making note of some exposed bedrock that indicates a spot where it will be too expensive to lay tower foundations. He invites you inside his home for some coffee, and you chat about milk prices. You brought a few photos of wind turbine installations in Europe with cows grazing nonchalantly at th ...
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WONDER WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A WIND DEVELOPER? We found this description of 'a day in the life of an assistant wind developer' on a career information website. ( Click here to read it at the source) We follow it with a description of a day in the life of a family living with what wind developers leave behind. 8:00 a.m. : After waking up in the Holiday Inn in a remote part of Iowa, you get in your rented SUV and drive into town to have a breakfast meeting at the local diner with the mayor. Your development team has optioned a hilltop in the area for developing a windpower facility, and you are now in the process of negotiating a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT agreement) with the town. It's probably going to end up being a new fire truck, school playground, and the new access road you will be constructing anyway up to your site. You are flying solo on this meeting, confirming the outline of the agreement with the mayor and putting in some time to continuing to build this crucial relationship. 10:00 a.m. : You drive up to the site to take a look around and call on the farmer who owns the land. The two of you take a walk around the fields together, making note of some exposed bedrock that indicates a spot where it will be too expensive to lay tower foundations. He invites you inside his home for some coffee, and you chat about milk prices. You brought a few photos of wind turbine installations in Europe with cows grazing nonchalantly at th ...