The Hoffman Falls Wind Project is a proposed up to 100-megawatt wind energy generation facility located in the Towns of Fenner, Nelson, Smithfield, and Eaton in Madison County, New York.
The Hoffman Falls Wind Project is a proposed up to 100-megawatt wind energy generation facility located in the Towns of Fenner, Nelson, Smithfield, and Eaton in Madison County, New York.
The Project is expected to provide $63 million in local investment to the Towns of Fenner, Nelson, Smithfield, and Eaton, Madison County, the Cazenovia and Morrisville-Eaton Central School Districts, and participating landowners.
The Towns are expected to share approximately $400,000 annually through the development of a Host Community Agreement, based on past precedent set by similar projects of this scale in New York State.
The Project will provide revenue to over 40 local participating landowners and their families through lease agreements and easements that create reliable income from the land for years to come.
This revenue includes additional annual payments of $100,000 through a Shared Community Payment Program which will be made out to neighbors of the Project.
The Project will create approximately 52 full-time construction jobs and up to three permanent operations and maintenance jobs, in addition to contracting local labor for ongoing services such as road repair, snow removal, and vegetation management.
