Monhegan floating wind - the twenty year rationale

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Comment by Penny Gray on May 6, 2017 at 9:21am

Sounds like he's explaining that the length of the "test period" must be twenty years because those two turbines have to operate for 20 years in order to make enough money to finance the project. That's so laughable it isn't funny.  Do these academics have a clue what they're doing? Twenty years????

Comment by Ron Huber on May 5, 2017 at 10:55am

Regarding the distance from Monhegan permissible for floating wind whackers, hearken back to  2010 when LD1810 when Maine's ocean wind laws were first passed

1.Audio from the final legislative hearing 3/24/10 on the offshore wind bill.  2.The Maine PUC'  RFP.  

1.  At the final work session on LD 1810 on March 24th, the Utilities and Energy Committee had the the competitive solicitation process for offshore wind in the bill summarized for them. As the committee analyst said: "It clarifies who's in and out". 

Transcribed below and also at  at 8 minutes 57 seconds into this recording from the hearing  is that description of eligible applications:

"Wind energy developments connecting to the transmission system within Maine using one or more floating turbines in the Gulf of Maine at 300 feet or greater in depth and no less than 10 nautical miles from any land area of the state other than the coastal wetlands or an uninhabited island. So that type of offshore project would be eligible."

I think this is a pretty unambiguous statement: "no less than ten nautical miles from any land area of the state other than the coastal wetlands or an uninhabited island".

 

2. This is  repeated in the PUC's official  competitive solicitation RFP notice. In relevant part the notice says: 

"For purposes of the competitive solicitation, "deep-water offshore wind energy   

pilot project" means a wind energy development, as defined by Title 35-A, section 3451, 

subsection 11,1 that is connected to the electrical transmission system located in the 

State and employs one or more floating wind energy turbines in the Gulf of Maine at a 

location 300 feet or greater in depth no less than 10 nautical miles from any land area of  

the State other than coastal wetlands, as defined by Title 38, section 480B, subsection 2.2  

 or an uninhabited island. "

 I don't think that Monhegan can be considered an "uninhabited island", do you?

How is siting them within 3 miles OK?

Comment by arthur qwenk on May 4, 2017 at 5:38pm

Alert to Monhegan residents.

These test turbines are just the start of dozens more to come in the same area. This is how the wind scumbags work, their modus operandi.

Squeeze the door open, then build on it shortly thereafter in the same area.

They utilize that technique everywhere they go , whether land based or at sea.

Kick them out. Do not let them get a beachhead in your backyard!