UMPI's 600 mw turbine reports an average power production of 2324.7 mwh the past ten days.
This is a little over five hours of good wind per day. The period included a 3-day nor'easter. Right now it is calm, agai,with power at munus .3 kw.
Harrison Roper
Houlton/Danforth
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From: http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN2827788820101028
Wind farm owner and operator First Wind Holdings Inc canceled its IPO after cutting its expected price range by 24 percent and facing investor skepticism about its balance sheet and wind industry financing.…
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UMPI's turbine website reports power produced for the past ten days (10/02 thru 10/11) totaled 20192 kwh, or an average of 2019.2 kwh per day. This is better than usual; there has been some windy weather lately, for a change.
In the ten days 9/11 thru 9/20, the UMPI turbine produced only 688 kwh per day. The turbine's "capacity" (which wind turbines rarely if ever produce) is 600 kw, or more than 14,000 kwh per day (600 kW X 24hrs)
Harry Roper
Houlton/Danforth
Added by Harrison Roper on October 11, 2010 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment
On Sunday, October 3, Stephen Watson and I made a pilgrimage up Rumford Whitecap Mountain in Oxford County. I say pilgrimage because this is a stunning and unique mountain, one of the lowest elevations to find sub-arctic flora in the state. It has sweeping 360 degree views from its open ledges. It has always been a favorite hike to me and this year was special, as it is likley the last time to hike this gem and see the viewshed unsullied by industrial wind turbines. I have posted a series of…
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On September 14th at the Hutchinson…
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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…
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Summertime, and the living is breezy --- NOT.
Just as the air conditioners are starting to crank up in earnest, the wind turbines stop turning. They hardly produce any electricity in the windier winter. And they produce almost zero electricity when Maine turns on its air conditioners. Brilliant, simply brilliant.
UMPI's $2 million (and counting) wind turbine experiment is clearly elucidating the gross failure of wind…
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Hello. - Today (April 8, 2010, I just received from Marcia Spencer-Famous, LURC staff, the protocol for sound testing at Stetson II.I presume it is a public document, The protocol does indeed include dBC.
Harriison Roper
Added by Harrison Roper on April 8, 2010 at 5:09pm — 2 Comments
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