February 2012 Blog Posts (58)

Today's Sun Journal, Feb 29th. Might be a good place to comment?

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/river-valley/2012/02/29/dixfield-man-escorted-board-meeting-after-exchange/1161789

STATE OF MAINE

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION                                   Docket No. 2011-170

                                                                                                February 27, 2012

BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMPANY                    ORDER

and MAINE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY

Request for Exemptions and for

Reorganization Approvals

2/29/12

The January 2012 edition of FEN's publication The Maine Woods is devoted to the issue of industrial wind power in Maine.…

For those of us who are new, a letter to the President you will likely find interesting. This is from a U.S. Democratic Representative in NY State.

Download here:

Massa_USRep_DNY__letter_to_Obama.pdf

We found it interesting. Governor Baldacci's Attorney General, Janet Mills, apparently didn't.…

STATE OF MAINE

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION                                   Docket No. 2011-170

                                                                                                February 22, 2012

 …

Keep tax dollars out of wind development–defeat the Production Tax Credit

http://windwisema.org/2012/02/26/keep-tax-dollars-out-of-wind-development-defeat-the-production-tax-credit/

"...The PTC is nothing more than an earmark that lines the pockets of project owners and…

 As of February 24, The UMPI turbine website has something new to report - "annual maintenance"  has revealed a need for some new parts, which have been ordered. Officials hope to have it working "in early March".

  I will be at UMPI on Sunday and will report if the turbine is turning or not. But I won't hold my breath. 

  The same old 164,808 kWh of power production since mid-November is reported - there has been no update since Feb. 14th. 

The turbine's third…

Provocative Film Windfall Examining Wind Power Debate to be Screened on February 28 at UCCPA

Vermont leaders back away from renewable energy goals

Two key legislators say businesses are worried about higher costs and that the 2017 state goal is unreachable.

By Dave Gram / The Associated Press

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Two key state lawmakers said Tuesday that Vermont won't meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its…

Reading this, it occurred to me that some of the "CO2 trumps all" mainstream environmental groups are so addicted to their "ties" with the wind industry that their repeated lying is just like that of a junkie who must have his fix. When the wind industry dies, who will they cozy up to next?

Someone just sent me the following which I believe totally applies to the tired…

http://www.windpowerinplymouth.info/Wind_Power_in_Plymouth/Google_Earth_Simulation.html

Click GET STARTED >>

new window opens

It says "ENTER your address"

• type address in box

• "go" button shows google map,

• THEN press "click here when address is correct"

A new window opens.

It next prompts you to…

Please check out the URL below.

2 Companies that are searching for “environmentally friendly” sources of energy should…

February 2012

Learning from Others’ Mistakes: What Europe’s Experience with Renewable Mandates and Subsidies can Teach Texas

http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2012-02-PP03-LearningFromOthersMistakes-ACEE-JosiahNeeley.pdf…

The $2 million University of Maine wind turbine experiment, the state's only wind experiment that actually measures electricity, continues to fail the data test, not to mention the viability test.

When this grossly wasteful and expensive experiment began, great promises were made by the University about openly sharing data on electricity production and how much in supposed cost savings (ha!) could be truthfully attributed to the turbine.

It's been about a YEAR…

If you go to the MPUC website and click on the link to "Online filing...", then go to "virtual case file".  When you get to the search function, type the case number, 2011170 and hit search.  Then you can look at 34 pages or so of filings -  several thousand pages.  You can pick which briefs, motions, procedural orders, etc. that you want.  The excerpts in a previous post were from the latest transcripts.

It sounds like First Wind just doesn't beleive that procedural rules…