Maine’s largest solar farm
Maine’s
The Madison Electric Works solar farm consists of about 26,000 panels and occupies nearly 22 acres in the Madison Business Gateway. The project, which cost $10 million to install, is expected to produce about 5 megawatts of power. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
largest solar farm prepares to power up
The project in Madison, more than twice the size of others in the state, will supply 3,000 homes and small businesses.
MADISON — The state’s largest solar farm could be fully operational this week.
The solar energy project in the Madison Business Gateway is more than twice the size of any other in Maine and was constructed by Ohio-based ISG Energy over the summer and fall. It was originally expected to be up and running by Thanksgiving, but the permitting process took longer than expected and construction ran behind.
The farm will produce nearly 5 megawatts of electricity and Madison Electric ...
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Comment by Dan McKay on December 28, 2016 at 1:29pm
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This Ponzi scheme is going to take off like a rocket and the day isn't far off when the paralyzation of power systems will take place. The more a resource of certain attributes is allowed takeover of any given system, the more the system resembles the resource attributes.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on December 28, 2016 at 1:21pm
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Even at 100% solar efficiency, the U.S. would need 4x our current land mass to reach the 2050 green energy objective based on our 2013 power usage. We have exceeded the 50% point of no return.
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Either Maine's Media is paid to put out this false propaganda or these genius reporters never went to school and were passed through the classes with trophies for attendance.
Even at 5 Megawatts per hour for 5 hours a day, this would only be 750 Megawatts per month, and even if the average use in Maine was only 400 Kwh (.4 Mwh per month) it would approach only 1875 homes per month.
Are our legislators and agencies along with our media persons all
"Stupid ?"
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Comment by Penny Gray on December 28, 2016 at 1:08pm
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Now if only we could get the sun to shine at night! How much is that costing per household?
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Once MEW receives maximum benefit from this "Hedge" and "Ponzi" scheme, will they kindly reimburse the taxpayers and other ratepayers that made this project possible.
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.8 Megawatts per month, per home for 3,000 homes would be 24,000 Megawatts per month (average Maine home)
5 Megawatts per day (almost) for 30 days would equal 150 Megawatts per month.
What math class did I miss ?
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22 ACRES, of more corporate occupation, corporate profiteering, loss of crop production, 5896 trees for forest product, carbon absorption, wildlife habitat, water cleansing.
The Greener things get............ the blacker things become
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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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