It's near impossible to get electricity production data from commercial wind complexes. So it is refreshing that UMPI has pledged to the people of Maine to share the data on electricity production from its $2 million wind turbine.
For those of you who thus follow the UMPI wind turbine progress with the same fervor as your favorite sports team, the attached simple Excel file (UMPI Turbine Analysis) can be downloaded and will let you keep score.
Just go to their website and off to the right, click on "Live Turbine Data".
Then in cells H4 and H5 of the Excel file (yellow colored on the attached), simply enter the current date and the KWH to date posted on their site respectively. The sheet will then recalculate.
We are less than a month to the anniversary of its commissioning on 5/15/09, so very soon we should have a year of actual data.UMPI Turbine Analysis.xls

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Comment by Long Islander on May 1, 2010 at 12:06pm
The UMPI turbine efficiency now seems to have dropped below 11%, 14 days to go to the one year anniversary.


Comment by Long Islander on April 30, 2010 at 2:36pm
The UMPI expectation now seems to be 73% over the projection with 15 days to go to the one year anniversary.


Comment by Long Islander on April 29, 2010 at 7:11pm
Everything was reset to ZERO today.

Comment by Long Islander on April 29, 2010 at 8:09am
The UMPI expectation now seems to be 72.3% over the projection with 16 days to go to the one year anniversary.


Comment by Long Islander on April 23, 2010 at 2:50pm
The UMPI expectation now seems to be 69.4% over the projection with 22 days to go to the one year anniversary.


Comment by Long Islander on April 21, 2010 at 1:25pm
The UMPI expectation now seems to be 68.4% over the projection with 24 days to go to the one year anniversary.


Comment by Long Islander on April 19, 2010 at 1:08pm
The UMPI expectation now seems to be 67.4% over the projection with 26 days to go to the one year anniversary.


Comment by Long Islander on April 18, 2010 at 1:00pm

The annual ouput projection has dipped below 600,000 KWH.

 

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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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