In spite of having government backing them ( Al Gore was Vice President ) and the first and best locations for wind resource, Mr. Bradley, a previous employee describes Enron's lack of success with " Green " energy:

Bradley: Enron’s green investments lost money year-by-year despite the taxpayer subsidies, so yes. The ‘green’ kick also got management off track—got the company off of a consumer-driven track onto a government-driven track. That is a bad trade even in…

Today is January 27. According to the website, the UMPI wind turbine produced a total of 22,200 kWh over the past ten days. Those days included a n'or'easter Friday the 21st and  yesterday the wind was essentially calm.  That's the way it goes with wind power. 

That  power output is an average of 2,220 KWh per day. So, with capacity of 600 kW, the turbine averaged less than four hours of good wind each day. 

Ideal wind whould produce 14,200 KWh - but it never happens. Thanks to…

Austerity pulling plug on Europe's green subsidies

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LONDON— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Published Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 7:15PM EST

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2nd ANNUAL MAINE WIND CONFERENCE 1/25/11 Edited Morning and afternoon sessions

(edited=removal of twitter links)

Live blogged by "DeepCwind Consortium"

Speakers for Morning DeepCwind  Session

Jake Ward UMaine's Dept of Industrial Cooperation

Gary Hunt, UMaine's School of Economics

Caroline Noblet, UMaine's School of Economics

Mario Teisl,  UMaine's School of Economics.

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It makes people feel good, like they're doing something to save the planet.  But let's assume that this gathering will be devoid of science and scientists. Let's assume that uneducated ideologues will populate these "Power Hours" and propose all sorts of flakey ideas which will eventually become policy.  We suggest that GPCOG insist that engineering experts attend all of these meetings. 

"Reducing energy..."    What does that mean?

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Maine Representative Stacey Fitts, House Chair of the Energy and Utilities Committee, was quoted AGAIN mentioning our "energy problems."

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GE CEO has been given the reigns of our economy by the President:

 This item has achieved "Innovative Award " by GE : A Cloth Windmill

A set back from stationary industrial noise emitting higher than World Health Organization standard.

How do I get this worded onto a town warrant article?

The capacity factor of a wind project depends on a number of different things and is site specific.  I cannot comment on the capacity factor of the Stetson project as I have not see those numbers, but there are several reasons why the UMPI capacity factor would be lower than that of Saddleback.  The UMPI turbine is a smaller turbine (600 kW), which is less efficient than a larger turbine,…

Outgoing Maine Dept of Marine Resources commissioner George Lapointe's final presentation on ocean windpower off Maine. 

(Photo is from a meeting a month earlier)

     In his 9 slide powerpoint George has a share-the-resource POV. Selling out ocean natural…

The following is a list of 29 bills relating to windpower (one or 2 include tidal energy) that will come before the Maine legislature between now and the close of the 2011 session. It comes from this list of more than 1,000 submitted bills accepted by the Maine legislature for this session. (58 page pdf file)  More about the Maine legislature…

Rufus brown did an excellent representation to the court. He was able to combined both the Oakfield and Roxbury cases as one. Noise is the major issue and the fact that the DEP will not give an open hearing concerning the projects and sound. If there was a hearing, then Rufus would be able to ask the "wind specialist" to prove their conclusions and to explain how they made there findings on the issues involved.

One justice even asked why the DEP didn't use this opportunity to allow a…

I spent yesterday afternoon in the State House researching out hydropower. With the help of a legislative reference librarian I got 18 pp. of energy related bills and two critical documents inventorying small hydropower sites in Maine.

In 1982, the State planning office prepared the MAINE COMPREHENSIVE HYDRO PLAN; it was updated in 1992; but 'apparently' not in 2002.  The report identified a total of 700.734 MW of capacity---unlike…

http://www.maine.gov/doc/parks/programs/planning/northern/documents/WMtnsPublicMtgMinutes.pdf

Freeman Tibbetts spoke about wind power proposals in the Western Mountains of Maine and

shared with Bureau staff CDs of aerial photography he took on a flight over the mountains.…