Portsmouth supports wind farm resolution

Portsmouth

supports wind farm resolution

PORTSMOUTH - The City Council has joined with Dover and Durham in approving a resolution asking Gov. Chris Sununu to explore the idea of building a wind farm off the coast of New Hampshire.

City Councilor Josh Denton, who proposed the resolution working with the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, said Monday the “goal is to get other communities to join us in the effort.”

“The only way for the task force to be formed is a request from the governor,” Denton said.

Sununu would have to ask the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to form a task force to “study our offshore wind potential,” Denton said.

Although New Hampshire has less potential locations to site a wind farm when compared to Massachusetts and Maine because of its relatively small coastline, Denton believes it still has plenty of good potential sites.

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Comment by Brad Blake on October 13, 2017 at 4:37pm

Denton and Splaine are ideologue airheads who obviously know nothing about the science or economics of electricity generation.   "It’s our really only solution to saving this planet" is such a vacuous statement.  So, you want to use the tiny bit of ocean in NH for the worst possible source of electricity.  The only operational shallow water wind site is Block Island, RI.  That project has a power purchase contract that began at 24¢ per kwh and has 3% annual indexing.  This compares to 5-6¢ per kwh that ISO New England is paying in the current wholesale market.  That is near shore, shallow water using monopoles driven into the seabed.  I am sure the homeowners and businesses along the NH coast would likely NOT want these monstrous machines sullying the ocean views.  The economics of far off shore deep water wind installations will be far worse if and when a viable floating turbine can be developed for that purpose, designed to withstand at a minimum the conditions that occurred with "The Perfect Storm" of October 30-31, 1991.
The media, instead of being complicit with pandering politicians and left activists owe it to the readers in depth analysis of the issues being pushed and always demand scientific and economic facts, not emotions, on which to report.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 11, 2017 at 8:38pm

@Paula -- 4003 Tesla Cars + 4250 homes (maybe), but only if they produce at 100% of the time at 100% efficiency which they can not, as nothing is 100% efficient. This would be the average monthly home power consumption with 300 miles of transportation for a household to be completely fossil fuel free. But then there are the other products (by the hundreds, including the home itself) of consumption that are fossil fuel produced. 

Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 11, 2017 at 6:06pm

And the councilors all sat there and didn't make raspberry noises??

From this dubious 'environmental' organizations website:

Just this past December, the turbines at America’s first offshore wind farm started spinning and creating clean, renewable energy. The Block Island Wind Farm is capable of powering 17,000 homes and is a huge milestone as we work to reduce and eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels.

If you’d like to see this kind of renewable development off our coast, take a moment to learn about our efforts to bring renewable energy to New Hampshire and please consider supporting SAPL. You can also stay in the loop by signing up to receive email updates!

And:

The Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) was formed in 1969 in response to the Public Service Company of New Hampshire’s announcement of its intent to construct a nuclear power plant in Seabrook. Although formed in response to the proposed plant, SAPL formulated its mission to encompass other seacoast New Hampshire environmental concerns. Even so, SAPL’s primary emphasis from inception through the 1990s was on the Seabrook plant.

Comment by arthur qwenk on October 11, 2017 at 9:26am

Stupid is as Stupid Does.

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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