Just curious, has anyone out there on the Wind Farmers Network had any experiences with permitting wind turbines? small or large?

The National Wind Coordinating Committee developed a comprehensive guidebook on Permitting Wind Energy Facilities (2002, but still very relevant) : http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/permit/permitting2002.pdf

Windustry has a web page with several other guidebooks to help with such project development processes: http://www.windustry.org/resources/guidebooks.htm