New facts about rigging data for excessive wind energy Tax credit's part 3
The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) data pertaining to wind energy production is greatly inflated. As I had reported earlier about the claimed wind energy produced in America, which relates to the capacity factor of installed wind farms changed dramatically in 2005. From 2005 forward the wind industry's energy production had magically increased and capacity factor reported to be in the range of 30-35% for every turbine in America. What all this means is that this industry may have received as billions in PTC over payments going back to 2005.
Here are some new facts. For the EIA energy production numbers to be true America's wind turbines would have to be producing with a capacity factor of about 31.5%. All of Europe's turbines are listed as having a capacity factor in the range of 20%.
I also looked up the installed capacity and wind energy production numbers for California going back to 2001. http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electric_generation_capacit... What I found was that California's wind energy production per installed MW capacity has declined. In 2001 the turbines were claimed to be producing with a capacity factor of 24%. But in 2013 the reported energy shows a capacity factor of 23%. Even so both figures are still far below the figures give out by the EIA and CA accounts for about 1/5 of the nations installed wind energy. Remember that production tax credits are being paid by the billions from the energy claimed to have been produced at wind farms and these credits also do not take into consideration the tremendous amount of energy used by these wind facilities. Keeping these green renewable energy credits I will finish with a juicy tidbit. Today I came across a document stating that from June 2001- June 2002 Enron was paid wind energy production credits on wind energy numbers 3 times the CA figures claiming an impossible 71% capacity factor.
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Comment by Jim Wiegand on April 1, 2015 at 2:00pm
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Today I received this reply in response to one of my comments............That same question was posed to an FBI agent: "Is it possible for electricity from a gas peaking plant to run through turbine transmission lines and counted as "green" without the turbine blades ever having to turn?" The answer was, "Yes. We never thought of that." There is massive fraud and movement of billions of dollars taking place under the guise of "going green".
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What you can do with bogus numbers............"It’s not just the industry blowing its own horn. In a study this month, the Department of Energy said wind energy, currently 4.5 percent of the nation’s electricity supply, could provide 35 percent by 2050. Even under a more modest “business as usual” scenario, wind is seen providing 25 percent of the electricity sector by midcentury (Greenwire, March 12)"
http://www.governorswindenergycoalition.org/?p=12331
The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) data pertaining to wind energy production is also bogus and inflated. In looking at their numbers I found that the reported wind energy produced in America, as it relates to the capacity factor of installed wind farms, changed dramatically back in 2005 when compared to the earlier reported production. From 2005 forward the wind industry's energy production was magically increased and reported to be 30-35% higher for every turbine in America.
For comparison I researched the installed capacity and wind energy production numbers for California going back to 2001. CA is a major producer of wind energy, accounting for over 1/5 of the nations installed wind energy in 2005.
What I found was that California's wind energy production per installed MW capacity has actually declined. In 2001 California's turbines were claimed to be producing with a capacity factor of 24%. But in 2013 the reported energy output shows a lower capacity factor of 23%. Even so both figures are still far below the 31-32% figures given out by the EIA.
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Don't take it personal because I did not mean it that way. What I meant is that things are not what they seem with our government. There are also people above this Whistleblowers center that can lead you on for years or squash anything. It is best not to assume that the right thing will be done when dealing with such a well connected industry. Look at the Hillary situation.
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Comment by Gary Campbell on April 1, 2015 at 11:13am
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Jim Wiegand,
First, I take offense at your characterizing me as a 'sucker'. Second, I disagree with you.
I emailed the Corporate Whistleblower Center at America's Watchdog about a year ago asking if they would entertain evidence of a certain wind developer's business practices. I heard back from them within hours. We set up a phone call and we spoke for about 30 minutes. After reviewing the material I sent them, I got a written response about a week later. They said they can only take action on hard evidence that would not otherwise reach the public or government's eye any other way. In other words, you almost have to be a trusted employee of the target corporation. Although the bulk of their work is in the areas of Medicare fraud and corporate income tax fraud, they were very, very interested in what I told them about how wind is being pursued in Maine. Unfortunately I didn't have any confidential documentation to share with them.
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on March 29, 2015 at 9:30pm
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Conflict is that I wish that you would make this apolitical, definitely non-partisan on any scale. I lived in Steel Pittsburgh and Bronx, a big huge of conjested transpot
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Sorry to interrupt by wrong button - thumb Luddite. But Frank I am pretty disappointed. This needs to be apolitical and non-partisan. It needs to care about property rights in air (see wind easements) and under (see fracking) versus large landowners (again see endowments and probably pension funds here).
It shouldb
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Frank- I understand that what the grid requires is no long-term average - the timing, the transmission congestion (which all claim is solved until they hand the $1.4 billion cost onwards - I'm thinking 46% to Massachusetts, but I can't predict what to rural, residential 'homes' always talked about vs one small part of the l
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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 29, 2015 at 7:59pm
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Hillary scrubbed her hard drives and suffers no penalty.
Where is the legislation to secure transparencyon production and power usage?
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Kathy; wind maps are kind of irrelevant since the real time records are what counts.
What is most important are:
- Fluctuations in power generation and their effect on the grid. This is a huge problem and expensive to 'fix'.
- Differences between 'face plate capacity', REC's and how much is really produced.
- Why REC's have a constant value when the power produced has a value which fluctuates considerably based on demand.
- Transmission costs and long term loss of forest.
- Loss of habitat for wildlife; herbicides sprayed on Transmission line ROW isn't exactly bee friendly.
- Accurate counts of birds, butterflies and every other rare & endangered species that gets squashed by a turbine blade..
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see http://www.snl.com/irweblinkx/OperatingPowerPlants.aspx?iid=4072693...
When First Wind was part of the proposed Emera merger , info on production of all wind sites (and other fuel types ) was available for Maine wind generators(First Wind data). Rollins, Stetson 1 and 2 and Mars Hill were readily viewable on a monthly basis. They have since been scrubbed from the Emera site ,with the SunEdison/Terraform Yieldco merger.Bull Hill is there with a few months back data .Data concerning First Wind project output in Maine may be available at Sun Edison, but I doubt it.give it a try.
Why be ethical, this is wind scamming folks at its finest!
They scrubbed it , and of course, are now lying about it.
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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