8/12/10

First Wind bigwig Kurt Adams saw no conflict in his UMS Board Seat Hearing before the Education Committee

CMP has told Mainers that the MPRP upgrade is needed because our power lines are 40 years old. But we know the real reason is so that spurting wind, however intermittent, require new lines to prevent thermal overload. Below it states that the benefit of this project is for interstate transport of electricity. What that means is that the ratepayer is being forced to pay for new transmission, without which, the already subsidized wind companies would not have a way to sell their…

What the AWEA wants is the government to make us buy their wind electricity -- at high prices. And make us pay for massively expensive, unsightly and otherwise wholly unnecessary new transmission lines so that Mainers and southern New Englanders can but this expensive electricity. Skyrocketing electricity prices coming from statewide industrial turbine and transmission blight that is…

From the Business Insider:

T. Boone Pickens Just Dropkicked The American Wind Industry

American Wind Energy CEO Denise Bode

Renewable Energy Industry Chafed About Senate Energy Bill

by Timothy B. Hurst on July 22, 2010

The wind industry is not responding well to today's news that the Senate is abandoning a comprehensive energy and climate bill and that the proposed plan…

If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes. And if you don't like your oft stated annual wind turbine goal of over 1,000,000 KWH, just change it to 700,000, which is exactly what UMPI has done on its website very quietly. In fact, the UMPI website has been WIPED CLEAN of any mention of the long stated primary goal of producing 1,000,000 KWH per year, which previously had been prominent on the site. Perhaps this simply reflects the reality that in Year One, ended 5/14/10, only…

Tick, tock, tick tock. The sad performance of the $2 million (and counting) UMPI industrial wind turbine continues.

Yesterday at 7:02 AM UMPI had achieved 690,542 KWH after 422 days. At 10:17 AM, 27 hours later, achievement stood at 690,588, a gain of only 46 KWH. At the same time, yesterday was a sweltering day and air conditioners drew plenty of power to keep us cool.

The capacity factor is a miserable…

Source: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/avgwind.html

And you have the gall to call the people in Maine NIMBY's.

Download more at the link below.

HistoricalAverageWindSpeeds.xls…

Summertime, and the living is breezy --- NOT.



Just as the air conditioners are starting to crank up in earnest, the wind turbines stop turning. They hardly produce any electricity in the windier winter. And they produce almost zero electricity when Maine turns on its air conditioners. Brilliant, simply brilliant.

UMPI's $2 million (and counting) wind turbine experiment is clearly elucidating the gross failure of wind…

CO2_Emissions_State_Pops_Areas_Forest2.xls…

The $ 2 million UMPI wind turbine was commissioned exactly one year ago. Since that time, our elected officials gave praise (see below) , a film about the turbine was made, budget cuts had to be made within the university system and the famous turbine's long expected goal of 1,000,000 KWH of electricity ended up overshooting reality by 65%. Efficiency was only 11.6% of capacity.

Commercial wind operations do not reveal their wind production data because they claim it…

Should Kurt Adams’ actions be investigated?

On May 12, 2010, we asked if you agreed an investigation is warranted in the matter of former Maine Public Utilities Commission Chairman Kurt Adams accepting equity units from First Wind, where he now works as senior vice president, while still working for the state.

78.8% of you said yes

17.3% of you said…