Wind

Two sites a few kilometres apart can have materially different wind regimes. Bankable wind projects rely on measured data — typically from met masts or remote sensing — collected at a representative height, followed by micrositing to place each turbine where it performs best without disturbing its neighbours.

Resource measurement and micrositing are specialist technical work carried out by qualified partners. Our role is to make sure the land that the micrositing points to can actually be secured.

A wind project's land is less about one large parcel and more about a network of rights: turbine foundations, crane hardstands, access roads wide enough for blade transport, internal cable or line routes, and a pooling substation.

That network often spans many landowners. Coordinating consistent terms across all of them is usually the longest-running task in early wind development.

Many early wind installations occupy sites with strong, well-documented resource but run smaller turbines than are available today. For owners of those assets, repowering — replacing older machines with fewer, larger ones — can be worth evaluating alongside continued operation or life extension.