State, feds finalize agreement for nation’s 1st floating offshore wind power research lease
The deal brings Maine one step closer to creating the nation's first floating wind facility, tentatively a 15-square-mile array that will include up to a dozen turbines floating nearly 30 miles southeast of Portland.
August 20, 2024
Daniel Kool
Press Herald
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State and federal officials finalized an agreement Monday for an offshore wind research lease in the Gulf of Maine, bringing Maine one step closer to creating the nation’s first floating wind facility.
The lease was first offered by the Federal Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management to the state in May. Gov. Janet Mills announced its formal agreement in a statement Monday afternoon.
The 15-square-mile wind array will include up to a dozen turbines floating nearly 30 miles southeast of Portland, and it is designed to test how ocean ecosystems and users – like shipping and fishing vessels – interact with floating wind farms, the statement said....................................
.......The site is expected to produce up to 144 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power tens of thousands of homes. Maine requested the research lease in 2021. Construction timing will become clearer as permitting and regulatory processes move ahead.
The Mills administration announced in February that it hopes to construct a port on Sears Island to construct and service the turbines..........................
Read the full article at https://www.pressherald.com/2024/08/19/state-feds-finalize-lease-ag...
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15 square miles or a 4 x 4 mile square
Each wind turbine is 12 MW for a total of 144 MW installed, which will have an ANNUAL average output of at most 60 MW x 8766 h/y = MWh
There are very few FLOATING wind turbines in service in the world of that size with extremely long blades, which will vibrate in the stronger winds until they fall apart, as at Cape Cod
The Maine people will be so screwed
Isn't it amazing how many homes these things are always projected to power? Tens of thousands of homes is such an accurate number. When I purchase a generator or a solar panel I always look at the power generation figures and I've never read one that promised tens of thousands of watts.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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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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