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Proposal to build major wind farm in Aroostook County resurrected



Katie Chapman (left), project manager for EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Jeff Bishop, a member of the company's government relations team, were in Maine this week meeting with stakeholders in the renewable energy industry. EDP Renewables is proposing to build what would become New England's largest wind farm in southern Aroostook County.

Katie Chapman (left), project manager for EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Jeff Bishop, a member of the company's government relations team, were in Maine this week meeting with stakeholders in the renewable energy industry. EDP Renewables is proposing to build what would become New England's largest wind farm in southern Aroostook County. Buy Photo

Posted Oct. 08, 2013, at 6:01 p.m. Last modified Oct. 08, 2013, at 8:01 p.m.

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PORTLAND, Maine — A wind farm first proposed in southern Aroostook County in 2007 is back on the table.

EDP Renewables North America LLC, based in Houston, is pursuing development of a 250-megawatt wind farm roughly nine miles west of Bridgewater. The company calls it the Number Nine Wind Farm.

At 250 megawatts, the wind farm, if approved, would be the largest in New England when measured by capacity. Currently, the largest wind farm in the region is TransCanada’s Kibby Mountain wind farm in northern Franklin County, which has the capacity to generate 132 megawatts.

EDP Renewables North America’s plans were revealed in late September when Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced that the company had signed long-term power purchase agreements with the state’s two major electric utilities — Connecticut Light and Power and United Illuminating.

Developers of wind farms are looking to Maine with increased interest as technology improves and states pass laws requiring more power be supplied from renewable resources.

EDP Renewables is actively looking at other sites in Maine, according to Katie Chapman, the company’s project manager on the Aroostook County project.

“Northern Maine has been called the Holy Grail of wind because there’s a lot of resources up there,” she told the Bangor Daily News in an interview Tuesday. “If you can figure out how to get the transmission, the sky is the limit.”

Chapman and Jeff Bishop, a member of the company’s government relations team, were in Maine this week meeting with stakeholders.

The company plans to open a new office in the Presque Isle area within the next two months, Chapman said, adding that transparency and open dialogue are central to the company’s plans in the state.

“I’m personally willing to meet with anyone willing to talk,” Chapman said.

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Comment by Norman Mitchell on October 11, 2013 at 6:29am

617 no 379 yes the poll  as of now but will they listen to the people never have never will SAD !! 

Comment by Peter Beckford on October 9, 2013 at 9:32am

This article has it all. The entire history of Maine getting wrecked by profiteers, from paper companies to Angus King. I'm sorry, but i have to say that these friendly, sincere, transparency-loving managers are willing to cause people misery and pollute beautiful places in order to make themselves money. Just a bit disgusting.

 

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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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