Green energy’s fair shot

Hello Willem Post - Sorry, I simply do not know how to do a spreadsheet. I am 79 years old and most details of the internet have escaped me.  But you have a very good idea;  I hope someone will spot this and do the project for you. 

  To me, it is self-evident that actual power production (and the lack thereof) will eventually prove to be the deciding factor in whether the turibnes will endure.  From what I have seen in monitoring the UMPI turbine's poor output for 2.5 years,  inland…

The Angus King-Yale Endowment project referenced is Record Hill Wind. The First Wind project that is referenced is called Kahuku Wind. Detailed information on both projects can be found at the website of the U.S. DOE Loan Programs Office.…

  The Federal Energy Regulation Commission  (FERC) has a website that lists seemingly hundreds of energy producers in the USA.  The site has information on quarterly power sales and prices and some other details.   

  To check out the  Maine wind producers' actual power production you have to know the name FERC uses for them:

Mars Hill is "Evergreen Wind Power, LLC";

Stetson I is "Evergreen Wind Power V, LLC"

Stetson II is "Stetson Wind,LLC"

Kibby is…

The vote in Frankfort adds to the election night shutout favoring wind ordinances across the state.  Statewide, it was 5-0 in favor of protective ordinances and moratoriums on election night and …

The following is excerpted from today's Sun-Journal:

LePage isn't the first governor to seek a deal with Hydro-Quebec. Gov. John Baldacci also turned an eye north seeking to capitalize on the mega-provider's eagerness to penetrate the New England market. But those efforts hit a series of roadblocks, including concern from…

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"So far, we've been the lead contractor on every major project in New England," says Parker. "We know that's not going to continue, but we intend to continue bidding on every job that's feasible for us."…

A reader left the following post with this article in the Bangor Daily News:

Portland, you've got it all wrong!  Since you all favor wind power and jobs, and economic development, and being green, you…

From:

WindAction Editorial

Windpower’s PTC: Secondary to state mandates

(Posted November 28, 2011)

I  put together few bullets points of historical significance about  the  genesis of the regulatory  process for wind power  in Maine : PLEASE  CHECK  THE REPORT  FOR A MORE THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING:

Report on the Viability of Wind Power Development in Maine, Maine Public Utilities Committee (Presented to the Utilities and Energy Committee of the Maine Legislature, January 27, 2005) 

Available on-line at:…

As one of the reader commenters has cleverly written:

"Your search – “renewable energy” – did not match any documents".

Google abandons renewable energy projects

The following key comment was left by a reader in today's Bangor Daily News article entitled "Oakfield vote advances $300 million wind project in Aroostook County"

"You should be aware that these wind projects are single purpose entities with no legal recourse to the…

Hello All:  The Mount Desert Islander published the following letter in today's edition, Lynne

The clothesline and the BS line.

In the line at the grocery store, the cashier told an older woman

that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags

weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained,

"We didn't have…