At the Hywind Maine meeting at Rockland library on Tuesday,  I was the only visible critic of deepwater floating ocean windpower among the attendees.  I  interviewed 3 Statoil officials, one consultant, a representative of the DeepCwind Consortium and a Seagrant staffer. The recordings  have background crowd sounds

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 -The UMPI turbine website just posted a new production figure: 374,690 kWh since "mid-November".

That's 217 days, or an average of 1727 kWh per day.  The "installed capacity" is 14,400 kWh per day, so that's a Capacity Factor of  11.99%.  No other new information is posted - the "full turbine informaiton" software is still not working.

Harry Roper   Houlton/Danforth

It is good that attention is being paid to Harvard's purchased interest in Stetson II. Here are some hard facts - let's see if Harvard cites these uncomfortable figures:

  According to FERC's quarterly summaries, Stetson II (when construction was completed) produced 10 GWH in the third quarter of 2010 and 20 GWH in the fourth quarter of 2010.

The installed capacity of Stetson II is 57 GWH per quarter. That's 30 GWH produced for the half year; installed capacity for the period…

Energy firms announced wind deal despite risk posed by legal appeal

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-23/wind-farm-faces-closure-over-noise-breach/4087900

Victorian Ballarat Senator John Madigan "Better to put our energy instead of accusing people of being hysterical... we should get on and do the research..."

Waubra resident "All we want is our life back on the farm."

At several Australian projects, turbines are…

In bureaucracy language, to "take" is not only to kill but has implications for habitat use as well.



U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service extends comment period to revise eagle permit regulations

June 22, 2012 -- Docket Number FWS-R9-MB- 2011-0054

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the comment period on the proposed rule, published on April 13, 2012, to revise the regulations governing permits for nonpurposeful take of…

Please join Harley Keisch and Lisa Linowes for this Sunday's Wind Wise Radio program. We encourage our listeners to dial in and talk with us and our guests.  The dial-in line is 213-943-36683

In Massachusetts, Freedom of Information Act requests have turned up evidence of the massive…

Norwegian company hosting info sessions about wind project off Maine coast

This is a good read to remind us our problems may be local but they are shared by many across the world.

"How Not To Build A Windsite" but oh oops, they did.  Read all about it.

Meanwhile the folks who brought you the Condor Cuisinarts in Southern California are now suggesting…

Today (July 20, 2012) the UMPI wind turbine site reported  actual power produced since mid-November of  2011 at 364,689 KWH. That's 210 days, and an average 1736 KWH per day. Divide that average by the "installed capacity" of 14,000 KWH per day and you get .124. This is called the "capacity factor"; capacity factor is seldom mentioned by wind promoters. It means the turbine has been working at one eighth  (12.6%) of its potential since it was repaired in mid-November of 2011.  This, for an…

Now that First Wind and Emera have announced their joint venture to be both utility and generator (what many believed was against the law), we thought it might be helpful to summarize some of the writings on this from the non-partisan Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

Monday | June 18, 2012

First Wind, Emera close joint venture deal

Massachusetts-based First Wind Holdings and Nova Scotia-based Emera Inc. have closed a $361 million deal to jointly own and operate wind energy projects in the Northeast through a new company called Northeast Wind Partners.

Three large wind projects in Pennsylvania have been stopped.

WWR will speak with Laura Jackson, the President of Save Our Allegheny Ridges (SOAR), and Jack Buchan, an active opponent of these projects, about these important victories including how a small, endangered bat helped save a mountain from being…

Every candidate is against subsidizing wind power.

This is well worth watching - start at minute 14:00 by dragging the time bar on the bottom of the video.

Click here:

http://video.mpbn.net/video/2242839005/

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The above screenshot is from the movie "Windfall".

As this gentleman points out, wind projects do not make sense for the wind companies when there is no way to attach the turbines. When greedy landowners decide to throw their neighbors under the bus so that they can line their pockets at others' expense, their schemes fall apart when other…

Opposition grows against Passadumkeag wind project proposal

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/203398/2/Opposition-grows-against-Passadumkeag-wind-project-proposal

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