AI Overview Vineyard Wind
- Testing Constraints: The 351-foot (107-meter) blades for the Vineyard Wind project were too long for standard testing facilities, requiring them to be tested at a facility that could only accommodate up to 300 feet. As a result, the blades were cut, and engineers had to extrapolate data for the full length, skipping full-scale torsion testing.
- Cold Weather Performance & Icing: Ice accumulation is a major concern for offshore wind, as it causes aerodynamic imbalances and efficiency losses. While turbines are generally designed with "cold weather packages" (heaters) to operate down to -22°F, the specific 300-foot-class blades in question faced failures shortly after installation, raising questions about whether their design and testing fully accounted for extreme real-world, cold-weather conditions.
- Manufacturing Issues: Preliminary assessments of recent failures of 300-foot blades (e.g., Nantucket/Vineyard Wind) pointed to "manufacturing deviations" or errors in production, rather than solely a failure to withstand low temperatures, though some critics argue that proper full-scale testing might have caught these defects.
- Current Standards: Industry standards require that wind turbines work at temperatures down to -4°F, with specialized, colder climate, cold-resistant, and heated turbines working down to -22°F.
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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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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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