All Blog Posts Tagged 'Maine' (95)

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…

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 FERC Quarterly reports have just been posted for the  2nd quarter of 2011.

Stetson I sold 32,000 MWH of power.  With its capacity of 26MW, that is .251 of capacity.

Stetson II sold 13,000 MWH of power. With its capacity of 26 MW, that is .224 of capacity.

Mars Hill sold 30,000 MWH of power. With its capacity of 44 MW, that is .308 of capacity.

That's the facts -

Harry Roper  Houlton/Danforth

Who knows anything about the plethora of Maine windpower related bills to come up in the near future Help me with yourthoughts on as many as you known anything about. ALL TO BE HEARD APRIL 24/25

 The hearings are at 9:30 Monday (probably lasting all day) and 1:00 Tuesday.  More details will follow. Meantime, below are links to the bills if anyone wants to start crafting testimony.  Thank you.…

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The Greene Grocers Inc., and the tale of Good State folly.

Once upon a time, a new idea to provide “new, clean, and technologically advanced” source of produce for The Good State, is born. The…

This is a copy of a post I wrote for my personal blog a few days ago. Thought I'd repost it here.

Do you have a special place? That place you've…

On January 3, 2011,  the US Dept of Energy published a notice on a plan to add twenty new categorical exclusions to review of development projects as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Windpower is, alas, part of that plan.  Deadline to add your input is February 17,…

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.

START LIVE…

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…

PEER (Public Employees for environmental Responsibility) lifts the rock under which the Cape Wind political maggots have been hiding, gnawing away at our environment. Something to consider as Maine looks to de-wind its waters.

FEDERAL AGENCIES FLYING BLIND IN CAPE WIND APPROVALS — Internal E-Mails Admit Huge Data Gaps, Inability to Monitor and Pursue Mitigation

For Immediate…

At the Offshore Wind: Tools and Information for Maine Coastal Stakeholders" meeting in Belfast on December 145h , one of the afternoon panels was called Lessons Learned from Siting Renewable Energy Projects. Panelists included the Mayor of Block Island off Massachusetts, a Rhodes Island commercial fisherman, a representative of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone…

October 14, 2010, presentation on Maine windpower issues

by Jonathan Carter at Camden Public Library.

Note: these are mp3 files

Introduction by Ken Gross 2minutes…