Well done videos featuring interviews from folks inside the Isabella Wind farm, not far from me in central Michigan.
I’ve gotten to know folks in the area, general agreement that the turbines, installed in 2020, are performing as promised.
No zombie apocalypse so far.
Above, Farmer Steve Gross.
Below, School Superintendent Bill Chilman.
As wind energy expands in the United States, concerns have grown about the potential for tall turbines to be a drag on property values.
But a new nationwide study that analyzed data from 300 million home sales and 60,000 wind turbines finds turbines’ impact on home values is much lower than previously thought – about a 1% drop on average for a home with at least one wind turbine within six miles.
The study’s authors find the most impact on home prices happens if a home is less than five miles from a turbine; the further a home is from a turbine, the less of a value hit it takes.
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Auffhammer said one of the study’s most interesting findings was most of the dips in housing value were driven by early wind turbine installations in the US at the end of the 1990s. Closer to 2020, “we don’t really find an effect,” Auffhammer added.
That’s consistent with what I’ve heard from Township officials and assessors in wind farm areas.