Renewable energy wind/solar
RENEWABLE ENERGY WIND/SOLAR
WINDFARMS
Spring Creek is at the forefront of the rapidly growing renewable energy industry developing windfarms. Our leadership has extensive hands on experience in windfarm development and construction.
WINDFARM PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Our professional team can provide the oversight and project development of all the intricate facets of windfarm design. This will include maintaining the regulatory paperwork, to monitoring project status, to managing stakeholders expectations while delivering unencumbered right of ways, easement and lease agreements, all of which are extremely labor intensive. Spring Creek will provide all of the elements of project design such as locative design, engineering surveys, right of way acquisition, title surveys, meteorological tower acquisition, DOT crossings, Lease negotiations and transmission lines.
ACQUISITIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS
Spring Creek management and land agents have extensive prior experience in acquiring leases, right of ways and access agreements. Our acquisition agents are subjected to the highest standard of success in obtaining easements because most wind farms are private and do not have the power of eminent domain. We pride ourselves in understanding the landowner issues with the natural, agricultural and financial values of the land prior to signing lease agreements. We are also informed of the fair and equitable settlements involved dealing with landowner damage calculations for turbine sites, access roads, collection lines and other construction components. Agents meet with landowners whenever and wherever they are needed. Spring Creek agents use a more aggressive approach using advanced acquisition strategies to achieve maximum success for the client.
TITLE EXAMINATIONS
Determining who the proper owners are in the area where the windfarms will be built is one of the first tasks to be performed. Our title specialist sometimes spend months before acquisition begins determining surface ownership, legal descriptions, conveyances, mineral interests, oil leases and lease roads, current lease holders, encumbrances, title clouds, mortgages, liens, agricultural problems, construction right of way, judgments and military issues even in a friendly regulatory framework. This background information sometimes affects site selections. Our agents are skilled in working with manual and electronic courthouse records.
SPECIFIC PROJECT ELEMENTS
A few of the other major components of a windfarm projects include: Wind Studies provide the basic foundation for the project local. Meteorological towers are also needed for site specific preliminary wind studies. These sites may be needed and acquired by Spring Creek land agents. Transmission and Collection Lines must be negotiated. We coordinate projects with Surveyors and Engineers to assure that survey permission has been obtained and that survey restrictions are documented and observed. Environmental and Archeological Surveys are usually always required prior to any project conception. Spring Creek can take care of all of these project requirements.
CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION AND DAMAGE SETTLEMENTS
Upon the completion of the land acquisition phase of the project, agents are needed during the construction part of the project. Most times, existing agents which have built good rapport with landowners stay and assist with this part of the project. Agents act as a liaison between the landowner and all construction contractors and subcontractors. Maintaining excellent relationships to both sides is crucial to final settlements of damages occurred to the land by construction. Our agents are extremely aware of the importance of fair and honest settlements and final sign offs by the landowners. Our aggressive strategies obtain a very high percentage of final landowner releases which saves our clients time and money.
SOLAR FARMS
SOLAR FARM DEVELOPMENT
Solar farm development can be a very complex and expensive endeavor. Our management and agents do however have experience in development of solar farms. Solar farms are primarily privately owned projects. These projects may entail a number of various purchase agreements, lease agreements or land usage agreements. Acquisition for solar farms will many times require an agent that is highly skilled in the fee simple purchase process. Locating a suitable site for solar farms is a particularly complex issue and can be very tedious and time consuming at times. Criteria for solar farm selection includes finding land with the proper slope, proper soils, rainfall, vegetation, proximity to High Transmission Capacity lines and adequate power grids. Other complex issues surface involving conservation and environmental impact, governmental, agricultural problems, construction right of way and even military issues.
