Dowses Beach Cape Cod 800 MW Cables Meeting 1/17/2023

Save Greater Dowses Beach Cape Cod Vacation Destination
 
Meeting January 17, 2023 Time 6:30 - 8:00 PM 
 
Osterville Village Library Meeting Room 

43 Wianno Avenue  
Osterville, MA 02655

 
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Questions need to be answered why state officials are allowing residential communities are being sacrificed for commercial ocean wind turbine cables. The total output of the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant was 680 megawatts. The state is allowing sets of cables at 800 megawatts through Cape Cod residential vacation destinations
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Why is the state of Massachusetts officials allowing foreign multi-national offshore wind contractors to make up to 10 cable landings in residential vacation communities destinations on Cape Cod? Applications have also been made in residential communities in Rhode Island. This is called the "generator lead line approach."
This is the cheapest method for ocean contractors to get to grid locations as XLPE submarine cable can cost up to 5 million dollars per mile installed. This method also requires (you) the electric ratepayers to upgrade the current onshore electric grid to get the power off Cape Cod to the destinations of Boston, Fall River, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 
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The "planned approach " avoids all Cape Cod communities. The wind companies spend 5 million per mile to install major XLPE submarine cables from one offshore platform to Boston, Fall River, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. This is more expensive for the wind companies but in the long run saves everyone money including the wind companies and prevents up to 15 cable landings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 
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Do it once do it right 
 
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See Page 7 Brattle Group: Summary of two transmission approaches studied in New England 
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1. The “generator lead line” approach:  communities at risk of commercial cable routes
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2. An alternative “planned” approach: correct method
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A two-year-old report on offshore wind transmission by economic consulting firm Brattle Group appears to find electric grid cost savings of over tens of millions and significantly reduced environmental impacts and project risks in developing a multi-user, "planned transmission system" for offshore wind. 

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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."

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