Burlington Electric turns to Maine wind farm for new electric supply
"Corporate Poaching ?"
Vermont Business Magazine Burlington Electric Department has added a Maine wind farm to its renewable generation portfolio. The 17-turbine Hancock Wind Project went online yesterday for commercial operation and will supply BED with 13.5 megawatts of electricity, or 9 percent of its energy needs. The Hancock Wind farm has a total capacity of 51 megawatts and is located in rural Hancock County, Maine. BED's stated goal is to source 100 percent of its power from renewable generation. While it now either buys or produces about 91 percent renewable energy, it sells much of its own production (hydro, biomass, solar) as Renewable Energy Credits or RECs to reduce customer rates. The after-REC total was just over 20 percent in 2015. 
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on December 16, 2016 at 10:20pm
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Boy, that 51 MW capacity facility is really spreading it around isn't it.
I'm not too sure of my figures but even at a generous 40% of capacity and a modest 500 kw per household per month, I make it about enough for 30,000 households spread amongst 17 municipal buyers in Mass and Vermont..
Hmmm. And isn't there some loss over distance as well? Hmmm.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on December 16, 2016 at 9:52pm
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It seems there are 17 buyers, one for each turbine...... All Poaching to meet some of their requirement or to get ahead of the game a bit and make some sort of justification as to a need for Hancock Wind output.
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New Maine wind farm more than doubles wind output for MMWEC, member utilities
The public power utilities that have contracted with MMWEC to purchase Hancock Wind Project output include utilities serving the communities of Boylston, Chicopee, Groton, Holden, Holyoke, Ipswich, Mansfield, Marblehead, Paxton, Peabody, Russell, Shrewsbury, Sterling, Templeton, Wakefield, West Boylston and Westfield.
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Comment by Art Brigades on December 16, 2016 at 9:39pm
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It sure looks like they're trying to claim that 20% is 100%.
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Hey Eric,
If you haven't already check out Burlington Electric some more.
https://www.burlingtonelectric.com/about-us/what-we-do/where-we-get...
Their rate seems to be 16.99 cents per kwh. That seems to include transmission?
They seem to spread their buying around, not a bad thing?? Except for the use of downeast Maine to light up western Vermont. That part does seem to highlight the craziness of wind energy sources. Power Purchase Agreements crisscrossing all over the grid.
January-December 2015
Winter Peak MW 53.1 Summer Peak MW 63.1 Energy Use (MWH) 353,730 Resource Fuel Type Location Capacity (MW) Energy
(MWH)McNeil Wood Vermont 25.0 145,180 Winooski One Small Hydro Vermont 7.4 26,785 NextEra Energy Power Marketing Small Hydro Maine n/a 43,800 Sheffield Wind Vermont 16.0 35,006 Georgia Mountain Community Wind Wind Vermont 10.0 33,145 NYPA Large Hydro New York 2.6 17,263 Hydro-Québec Large Hydro Quebec n/a 4,880 VEPPI Small Hydro Vermont 2.2 7,456 Vermont Standard Offer Other Renewable Vermont 4.4 5,543 Burlington Solar Solar Vermont 0.9 1,117 BED Gas Turbine Oil Vermont 22.0 217 ISO New England Exchange - Net Various (system mix) New England n/a 33,337 Total Net Purchases 353,730
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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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