Responses to Maine PUC's July 20, 2010 "Request For Comments on Long-Term Contracting for Offshore Wind Energy and Tidal Energy Projects."
RESPONSES
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True impacts obscured
By Steve Thurston
Published:
Friday, September 3, 2010 2:12 PM EDT
I am writing in response to Karin Tilberg’s letter-to-the-editor, in which she defends the “Wind Law” and the task force that led to its implementation “Articles were unfair,” Aug. 27).
She criticizes Naomi Schalit for unfairly characterizing the process, but the incriminating words in Schalit’s three-part series came not from Schalit, but from
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Public notice regarding Champlain Wind's Kossuth Petition
Dear Interested Persons:
The following public hearing notice is being published by the Secretary of State on September 1st. It contains information, including the schedule, for the September 22nd rulemaking hearing regarding Champlain Wind’s request to designate a portion of Kossuth Township as within the Exp
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This is a place to find and download archived documents on this website. Please add documents to this repository as desired. Adding a file is very easy to do. This is accomplished by adding a comment to this post (entitled "Archived Documents") - when doing so, you simply click on the icon above the comment box that looks like a piece of paper, browse your hard drive for a file, add the file and click "Add Comment". A link to the file now exists as the comment and anyone can now downlo
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UMPI Wind Turbine Scorecard - Update as of September 1, 2010
One month ago, on August 1st, the UMPI turbine's production to date was 714,884 KWH. Today it stands at 740,982.
In other words, during the month of August 2010, total monthly production was a mere 26,098 KWH, translating to daily production of only 842 KWH. (26,098 KWH / 31 days in the mont
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Exposed: Mass Audubon’s financial interest in Cape Wind
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I have learned that the websitge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has quarterly information on quantity and prices of energy sold to the grid. All power producers are required to report quarterly peak and off-peak power sold and the price. When the data appears on the computer screen there is no URL in sight, but maybe you can find it via Google at FERC.
I just did, and I learned that First Wind's Stetson ( Evergreen Wi
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We just hit the 100 day mark of the second year of the UMPI turbine and for these 100 days, only 8.89% of nameplate capacity has been achieved.
That's pretty far from the 100% nameplate figures and related stats that the wind industry constantly touts.
Since this is the only official state-sanctioned in-the-field active data providing experiment with a technology that could destroy much of Maine's core essence, perhaps it is time to investigate all electrical pro
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Here are two handy documents, each is in pdf and WORD format.
The District Locator is a guide to House and
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“It's all about that view,” Baldacci said, staring out over the tops of trees at Mooselookmeguntic Lake and the Bemis Mountain Range.
“That view says 'Maine,'" Baldacci said. "It gives people an inspiration and it's going to be that way forever.”
http://www.sunjournal.com/franklin/story/893848
Meanwhile, coming soon on close to 2,000 sites in Maine if Governor Baldacci and his wind industry friends get
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