First Wind files for new 18-turbine wind farm

Written by Steve Fuller Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 8:17 am

TOWNSHIP 16 — First Wind has filed applications with state agencies to build a new 18-turbine wind farm in eastern Hancock County.

The project would be located in Township 16 and Township 22. The former is the site of First Wind’s existing 19-turbine Bull Hill wind farm, which went online…

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Added by Long Islander on January 23, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

UMPI turbine website is working- again.

While the UMPI turbine "live wind data" website was down 1/19-1/22 the turbine itself apparently kept working, at a Capacity Factor .188.

Harry Roper Houlton/Danforth

Added by Harrison Roper on January 23, 2013 at 12:18pm — No Comments

Audio recording the Energy, Utilities & Technology Committee

It is always useful to listen to and when possible record the meetings of the Energy Utilities and Technology Committee when they are holding hearings or meetings of relevance. If you attend a hearing of the committee please bring a recorder along and set it on where it will record both the committee and the testifiers.

Or you may record from afar. Below is a freeware program that lets you record audio…

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Added by Ron Huber on January 22, 2013 at 11:47am — 1 Comment

Maine Sunday Telegram: Maine still pursuing Canadian electricity

January 20, 2013

Maine still pursuing Canadian electricity

Lots of information in this article that needs to be vetted and corrected.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/mainers-still-making-pilgrimage-for-power_2013-01-20.html

Added by Long Islander on January 20, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

4000 feet health (noise) safety and property values

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/river-valley/2013/01/17/planning-board-listens-residents-questions-wind-or/1308560

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M.D. Harmon: Global warming forecasts suffer from conflicts over facts

1/18/13

M.D. Harmon: Global warming forecasts suffer from conflicts over facts

Basing public policies on 'cherry-picked' data that are open to interpretation can cause costly mistakes.…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 18, 2013 at 9:15am — No Comments

FULL YEAR REPORT OF WIND OUTPUT IN MAINE

Folks, we have updated our reporting of Maine wind sites output by going back and adding 4th Quarter of 2011 to go with the three Quarters of this year. Also added is some pertinent other information about these sites. Sorry for the diminished size of the original spreadsheet.

I consistently say capacity factor of Maine wind projects is under 25% and you can see these figures make that a true statement! Take away Mars Hill, which performs significantly better than all the others…

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Added by Brad Blake on January 11, 2013 at 10:30pm — 11 Comments

Mill officials say LePage’s efforts to change renewable energy policy could hurt paper industry

By Scott Thistle, Sun Journal

In both the Bangor Daily News and the Sun Journal:…

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Added by Long Islander on January 10, 2013 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Breaking News: Iberdrola Leaving Hammond...cancels Leases

January 9, 2013 - Pam McDowell, Staff Writer - Thousand Island Sun

1000 Islands - Iberdrola Renewables has confirmed that the meteorological test towers have been disabled and the company will no longer pursue developing the Stone Church industrial wind farm in Hammond, a project the company has been courting for the past several years. ... Read…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on January 10, 2013 at 9:41am — No Comments

FMM-CTFWP MEETING

FOLKS,

you received a week ago a message ( see below ) from Brad Blake, interim co chair of the CTFWP, alerting you to a meeting on Saturday , January 12th in Waterville to discuss issues concerning activism and legislation against industrial wind power in Maine.

This message is to REMIND you that it is NECESSARY for you to identify yourself and respond before Friday that you intend to attend. Due to space limitations, we must have a…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on January 10, 2013 at 9:12am — No Comments

Wind Subsidies: Fiscal Cliff Deal Saved Them But Are They A Lot Of Hot Air?

Lorraine Devon Wilke at Addicting Info has written a jewel of an op-ed about wind turbines...

It's long but worth reading every word... and concludes... "Before we cover every mile of our natural land with giant, whirring, metal machines paid for by our taxes, let’s be sure we know what we’re really getting. Subsidies, the environment, the…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on January 7, 2013 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Year to Date 2012 Maine Wind Power Output is Poor

The data for the Third Quarter (July, August, September) for production of Maine wind projects has been obtained from the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency (FERC) and the results are, as expected, very poor. The Summer months low production completely offsets the Winter months. Unfortunately, due to air conditioning demand, the need for generation for ISO-New England is greatest when wind power fails the most. If the 4th Quarter mirrors the 2nd Quarter, it appears that in 2012, the average…

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Added by Brad Blake on January 6, 2013 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Portland Press-Herald: Energy, education on tap for Maine lawmakers

Energy, education on tap for Maine lawmakers

January 5, 2013

By GLENN ADAMS, The Associated Press

EXCERPT:

Energy will be another priority as the governor tries to lower electricity costs by allowing more Canadian hydropower in the state and letting it count toward the state's requirement that portions of its energy mix be…

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Added by Long Islander on January 5, 2013 at 5:03pm — 1 Comment

Welcome to windturbinepropertyloss.org

Click on: Wind Turbine Property Loss…

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Added by Long Islander on January 4, 2013 at 11:00am — No Comments

CALL TO ACTION ...THIS IS WARFARE !!!

YES... we have lost this OCCASION …

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on January 3, 2013 at 9:00pm — 10 Comments

Can't get much " Greener " than that

Maine may be even “ Greener “ than anyone realized. From the EIA website……………………………,

“Trade is highest in regions with large amounts of hydropower. Canadian hydroelectric generators are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest; in Northern Manitoba, which exports electricity via transmission lines running south through Minnesota and North Dakota; in Ontario bordering New York and Michigan; and in Quebec north of New England. Certain states rely heavily on imported electricity:…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 3, 2013 at 8:53am — No Comments

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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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