First Wind data as posted on the LURC website...
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Comment by Harrison Roper on July 15, 2011 at 8:24pm
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I have 'done the math' on the power production information reported to LURC. Excluding the reported down times, I came up with capacity factors of 19.2% for Stetson I in 2009 and 21.5% for Stetson I in 2010.
The true capacity factors, taking into account the 7 week shutdown, will be about 10% larger, or 21% for 2009 and 24% for 2010.
In my opinion, a power transformer failure should not be applied to an official report of power generated. If the machinery fails, that is part of the cost of doing business, and the evaluation of the capacity factor is proportionatly lowered.
Stetson II, which operated the last 345 days of 2010 (87.6% of the year), had a capacity factor of 20.1%.
These are unfamiliar large figures for me. If I have made an error, please let me know.
H. Roper Houlton/Danforth
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Thank you, Gary Kuhn, for bringing this to our attention. I think it is significant that First Wind did not publicize information on actual power production until LURC required it. Neither have I read of any downtime for construction of Stetson II, or for a trasformer that went bad.
It makes me wonder - what else are they not telling us? After all, our government is a major financeer of their projects.
Harry Roper Houlton/Danforth
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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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