Land lease payments

Land lease payments

There are large number of landowners in Finland who are getting additional income from wind power. Wind power in Finland is typically located in forests, and from the landowner’s point of view, the land lease paid of a wind turbine is higher than the return from the same area under forestry use.

In areas where there are many landowners because of small or narrow properties, a situation may arise where a wind turbine cannot be built on one owner’s property because there is already another turbine on their neighbors’ property. For this reason, FWPA recommends that the land lease is distributed between all of the land owners that have land in such a distance from a turbine that another turbine cannot be built on the area.

As wind power is typically located on forest areas, the landowner is allowed to continue the forestry, and wind power provides additional incomes to the forest owners. New roads to be built for the wind power can be utilized also for forestry and other operations at the area.