Massachusetts -Wind Turbine Dirty Little Parasitic Electric Power Secret

Time To Pull Parasitic Electric Plug On Falmouth Turbines

Dirty Little Secret: Falmouth Politicians and Officials Hiding Massive Fraudulent Electric Power Bill Usage On Shut Down Wind Turbines

Falmouth Massachusetts 9/26/19

Parasitic Electric Power Going Into Wind Turbine At Taxpayers Expense 
 
The Falmouth shut down megawatt wind turbines continue to use electricity from the local electric company Eversourse aka the grid.
 
The Falmouth wind turbines were shut down by the Massachusetts courts in June of 2017. Court records show the town omitted a study, warning letter, memo, maps and emails that federal, state and local officials knew the turbines were far too loud near residential homes but that's not all they hid from the public. They are hiding the continued use of electric power going into the turbines at taxpayer expense.
 
The town for years is keeping the wind turbines in operating condition paying a maintenance plan, legal and engineering fees to move the turbines. In order to keep the turbines operational electric power has to go into the turbines. This electric power going into the turbines is called parasitic power.
 
The public has never been informed about the negative amount of power only the output figures.
 
The manufacturers of large turbines, for example, the Falmouth town-owned turbine, a Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt turbine do not include electricity consumption in the specifications they provide. Vestas does not reveal the amount of dirty electricity going into the wind turbine at taxpayer expense because it's between 8 and 25 percent and higher during extreme heat or cold
 
Town officials, if asked, will get back to you at a later as they usually do such as the ARRA grant/loan of Falmouth Wind II. There are too many dirty little secrets with these two wind turbines.
 
Taxpayers need to ask how much electric power is going into these two-megawatt turbines. How much is this parasitic electricity costing?
 
Among the wind turbine functions that use electricity are the following, yaw mechanism to keep the turbines facing the wind, recharging battery back-up, lights, controllers, communication, sensors, data collection, heating, air conditioning, oil heater, pump, cooler, and filtering system in gearbox, hydraulic brake and interface equipment between Eversourse and the turbines. This is not insignificant! All these systems use massive amounts of power!
 
The turbines are using up to 25 per cent of their rated output capacity (1.65 megawatts x2) twenty-four hours a day and more on extreme days for AC and heat. It's not free!
 
The town studied the installation of these turbines for years and does not want taxpayers to know the actual amount of electric consumption. The dirty power, parasitic electricity, into the turbines seriously diminishes any claim of providing a significant amount of energy in the first place.
 
A study of a Vestas V-82 type 1.65-MW wind turbine at the University of Minnesota, the same as the Falmouth turbines shows parasitic power use above eight percent per year between 2006 and 2008. This is the parasitic electricity or what the wind industry calls dirty electricity. The power usage they do not want the public to be aware of.
 
Taxpayers need only ask electric power company or Falmouth Energy Committee to show how much "dirty" electricity they purchased to maintain the turbines for the last two years. Why even have an Energy Committee if they don't know or omitted the information?
 
The real question is why the wind turbine manufacturer and the Town of Falmouth continue to hide the parasitic use of power into the turbines there is something seriously amiss in the town and wind industry's claims.
 
Why won't the town trot out some real electric rate numbers? But they don't. One begins to suspect that they can't because it's a fraud.
 
Falmouth politicians are Green zealots posing as energy engineers who should be free to play with their green energy toys at their own expense, on their own properties, the rest of us should not be saddled with their costs and unreliability.
 
Pull the electric plug stop the madness!

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