We are interested in fair win-win local partnerships with local taxing authorities and with local residents and landowners. Our fresh new company focuses on capturing the benefits of wind power generation for local and public benefit. Our renewable energy project development approach starts with a firm foundation built on these core features:

• We will only build projects that are acceptable and beneficial to overall community stakeholders, not projects which simply deliver large financial benefits restricted to just a few large and well positioned landowners. Acceptable projects – as judged by host communities – may range from the several Megawatt range to the major regional multi-megawatt ventures.
   
• We will offer communities majority profit sharing and future ownership options. Profit sharing can start upon commercial production of electricity. Ownership options – negotiated upon project inception – leave the community in complete control of the long term benefits of an energy source known for environmental responsibility and production cost stability.
   
• We will take the risk: up-front feasibility and development costs are high and significant. As community partners, we are willing to invest the time and money required to make “go” or “no go” determinations on projects that could meet broad community centered objectives.
   
• We will work closely and openly with communities, using any and all methods that allow for the optimum money and benefits flow into the community: examples include Host Community agreements, PILOT (Payments In Lieu Of Taxes) agreements, Property Tax payments, and others as applicable. We are flexible and firmly believe in an “open” negotiation process whereby we willingly and openly disclose our view of overall project financials – from our perspective and the perspective of the community.
   
• We are and will continue to be based in New York State and will strictly utilize talented New Yorkers and New York products whenever possible to develop and sustain projects.

Our goal is to create fair win-win partnerships, not to disrupt communities by exploiting their tremendous and beautiful natural resources. Please consider working with Empire State Wind Energy, LLC - such that in the long term you have the option to reap 100% of the benefits created in your community, with your wind resources.

Please consider working with us - to make sure that your community does not become merely the next passive host of highly profitable (absentee controlled) power project development, but rather the beneficiary and host of a community asset.

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