September's power production from the UMPI turbine was unsurprisingly low: it averaged 1190 kWh per day, Capacity Factor .082. The solar array generated 60 kWh per day.
Harrison Roper Houlton/Danforth
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on October 2, 2013 at 11:51am — 1 Comment
The UMPI turbine has racked up 11,243 kWh in the past ten days, an average of 1,124.3 kWh per day. Installed capacity is 14,400 kWh per day; Capacity Factor was .078.
Added by Harrison Roper on December 20, 2012 at 11:20am — No Comments
Capacity Factor (CF) is a standard and meaningful way of measuring a generator's actual power production over a period of time. The UMPI wind turbine has an installed capacity of 600 kW, which means in a full day with perfect wind it will generate 14,4OO kWh.
Northern Maine has just experienced a notably calm 10-day period, November 14-23, and the UMPI turbine website reports net power…
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on November 23, 2012 at 1:06pm — 1 Comment
Three years ago UMPI promised the public a turbine website that would report its output in ten-second intervals. Today I noticed (for the first time) that the software for that function is ACTUALLY WORKING!
For five minutes, at 10;25 am today (11/12/12) I watched wind speed and power changing every ten seconds, and I wrote the changes down as fast as I could: (wind speed in mph/power produced in kW) 12mph/86kW; 14/117; 12/69; 12/72; 11/91; 13/91....... I think that represents one…
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on November 12, 2012 at 11:51am — 8 Comments
UMPI has finally posted March power production: 17564 KWH, or 566 KWH per day. The turbine's capacity is
600 KW, or 600X24=14400 KWH per day. This figures as a 3.9% capacity factor, or less than an hour per day of "good" wind.
This sort of "explanation" of the lack of other data has been posted for about 10 weeks::
"The Live Wind Turbine Data is not currently active due to repairs. The general contractor anticipates
this system will be functional this…
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on June 5, 2011 at 9:13am — No Comments
Today is January 27. According to the website, the UMPI wind turbine produced a total of 22,200 kWh over the past ten days. Those days included a n'or'easter Friday the 21st and yesterday the wind was essentially calm. That's the way it goes with wind power.
That power output is an average of 2,220 KWh per day. So, with capacity of 600 kW, the turbine averaged less than four hours of good wind each day.
Ideal wind whould produce 14,200 KWh - but it never happens. Thanks to…
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on January 27, 2011 at 4:28pm — 1 Comment
UMPPI's wind turbine website is working again, reporting (finally) net output in "kwh" instead of the meaningless "kw" that prevailed for so long. You must understand that, on this website, "kwh" really means: "net kwh produced since commissioning May 19, 2009". I am hoping someone will make these distinctions clear to them; I have done my best.
In the 18 days from 5/19 to 6/05 (2010) the UMPI windmill produced (net) 24948 kwh, or an average 1386 kwh per day. It was a pretty quiet…
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on June 5, 2010 at 4:51pm — 1 Comment
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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