Massachusetts: Totems of good intentions gone awry
If the turbines had operated as planned, functioning 24 hours a day, they were projected to earn the town between an estimated $1 million and $2 million a year..............In addition to the $10 million that the town spent on building the turbines, they now have to pay as much as $2 million more to remove them.
“It’s a shame,” said Susan Moran, chair of the town’s board of selectmen, who initially supported the turbines but voted to take them down. “This is absolutely a financial blow to the town.”
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https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2019/01/24/green-energy-blues-in-a-...
Region’s power generators using more oil, coal
Typically, coal and oil each account for less than 1 percent of the region’s power generation fuel mix and natural gas is at 41 percent. But when temperatures plummet and the use of natural gas for heating rises, pipeline constraints often lead to shortages of natural gas, prompting some generators to switch to fuels that can be stored on site. Higher use of coal and oil is problematic for the region because those fuels generate more greenhouse gas emissions than natural gas..........................Last winter, a 15-day cold spell put severe pressure on generators who relied on natural gas. The deep freeze prompted a lot of fuel switching, with the region burning more oil during that short period than it did in all of 2017 and 2016 combined...........................Natural gas supplies have been supported by significant LNG [liquefied natural gas] injections over the past week. This has resulted in less oil-switching than was originally forecast, and oil inventories were materially unchanged.”
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https://commonwealthmagazine.org/energy/regions-power-generators-us...
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Comment by Willem Post on January 24, 2019 at 9:55pm
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The ignoramus town leaders PLANNED to locate the turbines too close to people.
They were rah rah ing the ill fated project.
Acoustics engineers had told them they would be too noisy, and that people would be disturbed.
But, they forged ahead anyway.
After some years of costly litigation, the wind turbines were stopped
Now they will be disassembled for a cool $2 million.
When the ignorant government bureaucracy gets involved in energy matters trying to save the world, there will be all sorts of subsidy seeking hucksters to fleece everyone.
The same shenanigans are happening in Vermont and Maine
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 24, 2019 at 3:40pm
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Totem. As in tote' em out of here.
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"If the turbines had operated as planned..." that's a big "if" and the article didn't state how much electricity had actually been produced since the turbines went on line. Obviously nowhere near one to two million dollars a year or they'd have broken even by now. The article made it sound as if the ten million dollar investment was a total loss, plus another two mill to dismantle them. LED lightbulbs would have been a far more intelligent investment, tho not nearly as visible a "totem" to the "green" movement. The comments generated by that article were discouraging.
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Nuclear is the only way forward!
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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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
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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