Boothbay interested in UMaine offshore wind power project

Boothbay

interested in UMaine
offshore wind power project

Boothbay selectmen are interested in participating in a pilot project to see if an offshore wind farm is a viable, renewable energy source. The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center is in the midst of planning to construct a small, experimental wind farm off Monhegan Island. The center is seeking a location for cables to connect two offshore turbines to the mainland.

The center won a $3.7 million grant in 2016 for developing an offshore wind farm. The center is leading a consortium of 20 other partners hoping to use research derived from the pilot project and developing a 500 megawatt offshore wind farm in the next 10 to 15 years.

The center has identified Boothbay and Saint George as potential locations for receiving the six megawatts of electricity generated from wind power. UMaine professor Habib Dagher explained the proposed experimental wind power initiative during the Jan. 24 Boothbay selectmen’s meeting.

Following Dagher’s 95-minute presentation, selectmen authorized the center to perform a cable route survey during the last week of March. The survey will take about eight days. It will map the seabed’s geology to find a suitable location for burying electrical cables underwater, according to Dagher.

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Comment by John F. Hussey on January 26, 2018 at 12:20pm

If Boothbay and http://www.boothbayharbor.org/boards/joint-economic-development-com... is stupid enough to want the useless, unreliable eyesores let them pay for it! "...Maine Aqua Ventus needs the special rate to pay for loans financing the project’s infrastructure.But the commission recently reversed its decision. Maine Aqua Ventus no longer has approval for charging above market electrical rates..."   What about the visual impact? 

Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on January 26, 2018 at 12:08pm

Dagher out selling this lousy idea again. Shameless promotion -- sticking ratepayers with $.35 Kwh while enriching investors and corporate interests.

 

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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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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

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"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."

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