Wind Energy: The Wheels are Coming Off the Gravy Train 

By Marita Noon 

Posted on May. 14, 2012

The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking.

Perhaps this current wave started…

Today my wife and I were at our camp, which is on the hill across Upper Hot Brook Lake from the dozens of Stetson I and II turbines. There was a good wind all afternoon, with some whitecaps on the lake. When we  arrived at about 12:30 pm, ten of the eleven visible Stetson II turbines were turning, at about 23 rpm.  Later in the afternoon (down at the lake) we saw only Stetson II turning, and at 3:00 to 4:30 none of the 30 visible turbines, including all of Stetson II and about 17 of Stetson…

Hello Hart - Here is a partial list:

Lincoln Lakes (First Wind)  Rollins   Evergreen Wind Power III, LLC

Washington County -Stetson I (First Wind) Evergreen Wind Power V, LLC

washington County -Stetson II (First Wind) Stetson Wind, LLC

Mars Hill - (First Wind) Evergreen Wind Power, LLC

Kibby - TransCanadian Maine Wind Development, Inc.

Carthage - Canton Mountain Wind, LLC

Oakfield - (First Wind; not yet under construction) will be Evergreen…

http://www.wowo.com/ArticleDisplay/tabid/74/ArticleId/6064/Pat-Miller-Discusses-Wind-Turbines.aspx

has a not to be missed 32 minute radio show from Indiana where a popular "drive time" host talks with three gents about proposed wind farms to be installed in that…

Does anyone have a list of:

All wind projects currently built in the State of Maine,

Whether they were TIF'd or not,

What the TIF  split was ie: 50/50, 60/40, 90/10 or some other percentage,

And who the LLC is that owns / operates the project

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hart Daley

7 Hidden Meadow Lane

Dixfield, ME

Does anyone have the article that was written regarding I believe First Wind / Bowers Project where the wind company basically stated

Fishermen could turn their boats around OR move to another cove if they did not like the view of the turbines

Any info would be appreciated

Hart Daley

The quarterly summary and spreadsheet pages of the FERC website are shut down as of 11:00 this morning (5/14).  I am hoping this means they are being updated with 1st quarter 2012 data. (The quarter ended March 31, 44 days ago.) 

  Also, the UMPI turbine was erected exactly 3 years ago.  I plan to do a summary of its power production , capacity factor, and reliability record and I will post it soon.

  One sentence was changed on the website: a re-wording of the explanation of…

Utilities see growing ‘smart meter’ opposition

Rumford Whitecap was a beautiful hike and then we got over a rise and saw the turbines and it was pretty shocking. Talk about out of place, out of scale. We saw two very large raptors soaring. They definitely weren't turkey vultures, so they were probably eagles. It was very windy on the Record Hill side of the summit and the turbines were…

Also, be sure to read this website's "Costly Transmission" section at:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/transmission-lines

CMP, producers at odds over new system

They disagree whether power producers were misled about the upgraded lines' capacity.

By …

I have to laugh when I hear that people will get jobs from this Wind project there wont even be any temporary construction jobs !!! If you think so then I ask you how many Dixfield residents got jobs on the bridge project ??? construction company's will bring their crew with them dont be dumb !!! anyone know someone who got a job on that project ?? I dont !!!! How many years has that been going on ???   and do you think anyone in this town or Canton or Carthage will get one of those high…

I just dont understand why our board of selectmen cant see what their blind Nazi like attitude is doing to our town !! We the people want a voice a chance to say No to wind this is not democracy!! not my America cant the board see they are tearing this town apart !! why cant we just say no to wind and keep the peace and be Happy like we were !! I will never vote or support any one of them again in my life !!! they are unfair one sided big government stooges sold us out just for money , dont…

Wind Wise Radio will be speaking with Laura Israel the director of the movie WINDFALL.  

Two Meredith residents featured in Windfall, Keitha Capouya and Ken Jaffe, MD, will also join in.  

Keitha currently serves as Meredith's Town Supervisor and Ken runs Slope Farms which specializes in grass-fed, organic…

Blinking Lincoln turbine lights on Rocky Dundee seen from Upper Pond

YOU ARE INVITED TO COME TO AN OPEN INFORMATIONAL MEETING WITH

RANDALL…

http://www.windaction.org/stories/22196

The UMPI website has posted the turbine's power output for the past week, Friday May 4 - Friday May 11:  12,324 KWh was generated by its 600 kw turbine in tha past week.  12,324 KWh divided by the 100,800 KWh per week installed capacity (600 KW X 7 days X 24 hours ) gives a Capacity Factor of 12.2 %,  slightly less than than the average 12.7 CF for the previous 164 days. Before mid-November, it was non-operative for 164 continuous days. 

I am hoping UMPI will continue posting a weekly…

Vanishing Vacationland

Wind Energy Without the PTC

by Lisa Linowes

May 10, 2012



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