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�ne rvt�awese r�emm�g ts��t»smeu wnn maaei oramenas rage�ot o MAC WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE FINAL DRA 18/1009 SMALL WIND BNERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS The Midwest Plannin��BLUZ MODELORDINANCE The biog on land use and zoning SMALL WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS MODEL ORDINANCE • Home SEC'fION I- INTENT • About • Contributors The intent of this ordinance is to balance the need for clean,renewable energy resources and • Local Food SVstems Diotect the necessity to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the wmmunity. The • Intro to Plannina and Zonin¢Workshons [Ciry/CounryJ finds these regulations are necessary to ensure that Small Wind Energy • Floodina in Iowa vroiect Conversion Systems are appropriately designed,sited and installed. • Switcher SECTION II- DEFINTTIONS � HEIGHT TOTAL SYSTEM:The height above grade of the aystem,including the generating � Archive unit and the highest vertical extension of any blades or rotors. � Posts Tagged`small wind model ordinances' LOT(or Parcel): Any legally established lot or percel which contains or could contain a permitted or permitted conditional principal use as provided by[Chap[er/Subchap(er/Arricle] � Model small vvind ordinances now available on the web _oe��g caae. FO F GRID:An electrical system that is not connected to utility distribution and trensmission �` March 14th,2010 facilities or to any building or strueturo that is connected. � 1 comment � SHADOW FLICKER: Changing light intensity caused by sunlight through the moving by Gary Taylor bledes of a wind energy conversion system. O In 2009,the Iowa Legislature passed HF 810,(now codified at Iowa Code 476.48)which created the � SM,4I,L WIND ENERGY CONV�RSION SYSTEM(S WECS):A wind energy conversion � Small Wind Innovation Zone Pmgram. This bill permitted ciries and coundes to to create small wind system which has a nameplate rated capacity of up to fifteen(15)kilowatts for residential innovation zoaes for the purposes of promoting small wind pmduction. If a city or county creates a uses and disuicts and up to one hundred (100) kilowatts for commercial, and industrial small wind innovation wne,landowners who install wind generation facilities become eligible for a districts and which is incidental and subordinate to a principal use on the seme parcel. A � state tax credit(although it is highly uncertain at this time whether the Legislature will fund this tax system is considered a SWECS only if it supplies electrical power solely for use by the (.. credit program tlus ye8r). As part of the p[ocess of creating a small wind innovarion zone,lowa Code owner on the site,e�ccept that when a pareel on which the system is installed also receives 476.48 requires the city/county to adopt a model otdinance for regulating stnall wind electrical power supplied by e utility compeny,excess electrical power generated and not generation equipment. The ordinance was to be developed by a small wind innovation wne preseritly needed by the owner for on site use may be used by the utility company in committee made up of representatives from the League of Cities,Iowa State Assceiation of Couttties, accordance with section 199,chapter 15.1 l(5)of the Iowa administrative code,as amended � Iowa Environmental Council,the wind energy association,and utilties reptesentatives. The bill from time to time. required the League and ISAC to make the model ordinance available on the web. After several monttis of work by the committee the mode!ordinance is available on the League's website(thia link SMA�L W1ND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM.FREE STANDING:A SWECS which takes Vou to the Lea¢uel. is elevated by means of a monopole tower only and is not located on another suppotting structure except that the tower shall have en appropriately wnstructed concrete base. Guyed, In a effort that was already ongoing when HF 810 was passed the Des Moines Melropolitan Advisory lettice,or other non-monopole style towers shall not meet this definition. Council also created a model wind ordinance. MAC believes that this ordinance is better suited fox use in urban areas than the model ordinance put forth by the committee. It is also available on the SMALL WIIVD ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM,HORIZONTAL AXIS:A small wind same League website. energy conversion system that has blades which rotste through a horizontal plane. lowa leaislation,Wind and solar eneravIowa Code 476 48 �a�1 wind model otdinances � �'$f� c�ns.�as.u�o��b��s.�nr..w�.r�•••�ee.atan..oeWw+a�+o.nonaiu.ucw�ewe.taee� Pflge 1 of7 http.//blogs extmsion.lestete edu/plenningBLU1/tng/small-wind-model-ordina�es/ 11/132014 � O