Economic Impacts of Utility-Scale Wind Turbines: What Rural Arkansas Counties Need to Know #AR

Across the U.S., roughly 97% of wind turbines are installed in rural areas. Considering this statistic, if utility-scale wind energy were to be introduced in Arkansas, rural communities would bear the direct impacts. This fact sheet contains projections of these impacts. The broad economic tradeoffs over time are listed below: Benefits of Wind Development County GDP increases by about 4%. Farmland values increase by 7%-8%. Costs of Wind Development Personal income falls by 0.5%-0.8%. Employment declines by about 1%. Population . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/economic-impacts-of-utility-scale-wind-turbines-what-rural-arkansas-counties-need-to-know/