All Blog Posts Tagged 'wind' (118)

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It would be awesome if you could take 3 minutes and fill in the survey for Shell Wind Energy regarding their proposed Bear River Ridge project.  http://www.shell.us/home/content/usa/innovation/wind/projects/bear_river/survey/

For more information on Bear River Ridge proposed project:

• The county…

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

A reliable source reports that Kibby produced 32.91%  its installed capacity in the first quarter of 2011 and 20.46 % of installed capacity in the second quarter of 2011. Winter is usually the best quarter for wind power.

FERC quarterly summaries are not yet available for 2nd quarter of 2011.

UMPI continues to repeat the promise that its website will be working "next week". No information is available on the website except the local wind speed, which is calm now.

H…

UMPI  has finally posted March power production: 17564 KWH, or 566 KWH per day. The turbine's capacity  is

600 KW, or 600X24=14400 KWH per day.  This figures  as a 3.9%  capacity factor, or less than an hour per day of "good" wind. 

This sort of  "explanation" of the lack of other data has been posted for about 10 weeks::

    "The  Live  Wind Turbine Data is not currently active due to repairs. The general contractor anticipates

this system will be functional this…

Wind Power Investors Get Another Reality Check

By John Peterson on Seeking Altha

Last Wednesday I stirred up a hornets nest with an article titled "A Reality Check for Wind Power Investors" that included two graphs from the Bonneville Power Administration, or BPA,…

The UMPI website is once again not working, for the past week. There have been some good wind days, and maybe it was generating power and not reporting it for some reason. No explanation is offered.  This is a rather common situation.  Eventually it gets fixed.

  Friday 2/18 at 6:00 pm the UMPI website reported net power produced 1,099,296 kWh; since then it has reported zero net power.  I will continue to monitor the site daily.

  You will also be interested to know that when…

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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…

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…

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…

The Bangor Daily News recently ran an editorial where out-going Dept of Conservation Commissioner was expressing concern about the incoming Governor cutting parks budget.  This is my response:

Save the Parks and Public Reserved Lands from Turbines

When did Eliza Townsend ever speak up to Baldacci about the greatest single threat to…

I see Wind as a nursery crop for the next Nuclear renaissance.

DOE recently made public its plans for small nuclear reactors to help pump water for storage at Wind turbine sites, to allow more Wind in the mix.

The science on human contamination from radioactive materials makes it now extremely difficult for…