NEW LAW WILL STREAMLINE WIND PROJECT PERMITTING IN MAINE

The UMPI wind turbine has a capacity of 600 kw, or 14,400 kwH per day in perfect wind.  Today the website reports 345,400 kwH "since mid-November".  That's 190 days, and the power that was produced averaged 1818 kwH per day. Divide 1818 by 14,400 and you get a 12.6 %  Capacity Factor. For this turbine in this location, 12.6%  Capacity Factor is about average.  On the 14th of this month, the turbine's third anniversary, I calculated a Capacity Factor of 8.9%, including a 210-day period of…

5/26/12

Maine Voices: Remembering Baxter's legacy key to not exploiting mountain resources

By CHRIS O'NEIL

EXCERPTS:

Fernald is a relevant policy that ought to be remembered a hundred years later as our mountain resources are exploited for the export of…

Please do not sip coffee before clicking this link...

WWR will interview Chris Braithwaite about wind energy development enveloping the ridges of Vermont and the confrontations it has provoked.

Chris has just published …

By Don Hopey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 16, 2012 3:49 pm

Two big wind development projects on Appalachian ridges in Bedford Counties on Dunning and Evitts mountains (24 turbines) and the Clover Run project in Clearfield counties (40 turbines) have been canceled. Fewer new turbines will be spinning across the nation next year due to the possible end of a federal tax credit program that has driven development.…

I Like the story at http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/letters/portland-says-cannon-is-the-citys_2012-05-25.html

Imagine one of those on the lawns of people in towns being attacked by big-wind. I wouldn't need to be real to make the message.

This was of course before Redington-Nubble and Mars Hill, etc.

As part the approval, Kenetech must release data immediately on possible bird impacts, include in its final plan information on power contracts with buyers of electricity, submit details of soil studies and erosion control plans, and show how it might minimise road construction at the sute. Commissioners, however, rejected a proposal to have Kenetech build the…

Passadumkeag Mountain group to discuss wind farm at cookout

Eagles butchered on green altar

The next time you read some bald faced pro-wind lies in an online post, consider that the blogger may be employed by an organization that has made this commenting part of his or her job. The employer could be a wind company but also a wind industry law firm, engineering firm, a paid off so called environmental group, an ornithologist who rigs bird studies, etc.

It is now established fact that many of the pro-wind comments we see in online reader…

WWR will talk with an expert working hard to save birds, other wildlife, and desert flora from being negatively impacted by industrial scale wind developments in sensitive areas and a journalist who is a leader in the effort to tell these stories.…

First Wind satisfied with electricity output in 2011, spokesman says

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/19/business/first-wind-satisfied-with-electricity-output-in-2011-spokesman-says/

In November 2009, about thirty bewildered individuals from around the state gathered together, stunned by the realisation that our beloved state had become the target of powerful forces driven by the lure of government largess, and that if nothing was done, soon there would be thousands of wind turbines marring Maine's formerly priceless landscape. The Citizens Task Force on Wind Power was formed that day.   J was at that meeting, having already written several newspaper columns decrying…

Because I make revisions to my articles as a result of comments, etc., I am listing the URL instead of the article.

You go to the URL and will see the latest version.…

I recently found the listing of grants that have been awarded via Section 1603 of ARRA.  This program is fortunately ending at the end of 2012, but any wind project that shows a "substantial" start on a project before then (such as beginning construction on an access road beyond just tree clearing) will be grandfathered in to this gift of taxpayer money.  The Obama administration used the Recovery Act as a way to boost an industry that can't stand on its own.  In lieu of the PTC for ten…

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…