This is a good read to remind us our problems may be local but they are shared by many across the world.

"How Not To Build A Windsite" but oh oops, they did.  Read all about it.

Meanwhile the folks who brought you the Condor Cuisinarts in Southern California are now suggesting…

Today (July 20, 2012) the UMPI wind turbine site reported  actual power produced since mid-November of  2011 at 364,689 KWH. That's 210 days, and an average 1736 KWH per day. Divide that average by the "installed capacity" of 14,000 KWH per day and you get .124. This is called the "capacity factor"; capacity factor is seldom mentioned by wind promoters. It means the turbine has been working at one eighth  (12.6%) of its potential since it was repaired in mid-November of 2011.  This, for an…

Now that First Wind and Emera have announced their joint venture to be both utility and generator (what many believed was against the law), we thought it might be helpful to summarize some of the writings on this from the non-partisan Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

Monday | June 18, 2012

First Wind, Emera close joint venture deal

Massachusetts-based First Wind Holdings and Nova Scotia-based Emera Inc. have closed a $361 million deal to jointly own and operate wind energy projects in the Northeast through a new company called Northeast Wind Partners.

Three large wind projects in Pennsylvania have been stopped.

WWR will speak with Laura Jackson, the President of Save Our Allegheny Ridges (SOAR), and Jack Buchan, an active opponent of these projects, about these important victories including how a small, endangered bat helped save a mountain from being…

Every candidate is against subsidizing wind power.

This is well worth watching - start at minute 14:00 by dragging the time bar on the bottom of the video.

Click here:

http://video.mpbn.net/video/2242839005/

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The above screenshot is from the movie "Windfall".

As this gentleman points out, wind projects do not make sense for the wind companies when there is no way to attach the turbines. When greedy landowners decide to throw their neighbors under the bus so that they can line their pockets at others' expense, their schemes fall apart when other…

Opposition grows against Passadumkeag wind project proposal

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/203398/2/Opposition-grows-against-Passadumkeag-wind-project-proposal

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I need to ask a question. What evidence is there that industrial turbines take more energy to run than they provide? This is a broad scope question looking for empirically solid answers.

Today the UMPI turbine website reports an update of its ouptut; it generated 355.286 KWH since mid November. That's about six months, or about 183 days. The turbine's "installed capacity" for that period is 600 KW times 24 hours times 183 days equals 2,635,200 KWH. Divide the installed capacity into the actual power produced yields a paltry Capacity Factor of .134 . The previous Capacity  Factor, on May 29 was .126. An optomist would say things are improving. I think a realist would say…

Minnesota -- Vermont -- California

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After disappearing for a day or so, the FERC website has the quarterly summaries posted again.

EXETER, Maine (AP) - A family dairy farm in central Maine is using a new system that converts cow manure and food waste into heat and electricity.

         

Maine's top environmental, agriculture and economic development officials will be on hand Thursday when the anaerobic digestion system is unveiled at the Stonyvale Farm in Exeter, which has about 1,000…

When I came across this quote, I couldn't help but think of Stantec, Sewall Co. Kleinschmidt and all the engineers hired by CMP trying to make a transmission fit for wind :

“No engineer could, or would, join [a government funded bound rubber band electricity generation plant].” Would that this were true, Mr. Hails. Given what I’ve seen, engineers would join with economists in a New York minute, putting grand make work on display with their shoulders to the wheel of making the…

The Maine Public Utilities Commission ( Overseers of electric rates in Maine ) must be having one of those “ If we only knew then what we know now “ moments . In 2009, the PUC mandated a contract between a wind turbine project owner in Lincoln, Maine and Central Maine Power and Bangor-Hydro. An article from the Lewiston Sun Journal appearing in April 2010 states “The 20-year contract between Rollins’ owner, First Wind, and CMP and Bangor Hydro Electric Co. was hammered out by the Maine…

Conflict of Interest - Maine State Legislature

Title 1 MRSA §1014 lists several activities constituting a conflict of interest to help define ethical standards and to identify areas of real or apparent impropriety that are to be avoided. These are examples and should not be considered an exhaustive list. The…

Lake Township in Michigan recently voted 2 to 1 against changing their zoning laws to allow wind turbine development. Now the town board is considering giving 40% of their township to the neighboring township which has very lenient zoning standards.  If property owners don’t agree with the town’s vote – should they be allowed secede?  Is the Confederacy alive and well in Michigan?  WWR will be talking with Kevon Martis, a spokesperson from Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition about these…