New UMPI data - same old story
As of today (July 5, 2012) the UMPI turbine website reports it has generated 379,171 kwH "since mid-November". That is 223 days; at 14,000 kwH per day "installed" capacity, that's a Capacity Factor of .118, about the same as the previous reports. No other new information is posted. As before, the site declares the full-data reporting software continues to need "fine tuning".
The turbine was shut down for 210 days before last November's fresh start-up. That's 223 days of operation plus 210 days of non-operation preceeding last mid-November. This means it produced 379,171 kwH in 433 days, an average of 875.6 kwH per day. At 14,400 "installed capacity" per day, that's a Capacity Factor of .06.
With a new President, we observers hope UMPI will offer some further explanation.
Harry Roper Houlton/Danforth
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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on July 8, 2012 at 12:16pm
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The other part of the story is the cost and duration of operational maintenance. The wind trade journals are filled with technical descriptions of how to perform maintenance on gear boxes, electrical connections, and corroded/wore blade surfaces.
Just yesterday I read about a robot that uses magnetic feet to climb and inspect a tower! ...and who's paying for that?
The otherside of the production equation is that wind turbines will produce more power than the grid will accept; and wind farms actually pay grid operators to accept it. But, instead of a loss, they make still make money. One farm got 22 cents subsidy and paid 21 cents, still making a penny a KwH.
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on July 7, 2012 at 10:10pm
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The industrial size turbines are not much better , at least UMPI is providing some data, FirstWind is still playing energy games and keeping secrets. Enron is alive and well.
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Comment by Long Islander on July 5, 2012 at 7:47pm
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Well into this, long after the useless turbine settled into what was for a long time an 11% capacity factor, UMPI's old president and/or finance people went on record stating the turbine achieved its dollar saving goals.
How did the turbine accomplish that feat with such incredible underperformance in electricity production?
Perhaps they have discovered some new laws of math the rest of us don't yet know about?
It's been over three years. It's high time that the years of candy coating get scraped off so we can have the unvarnished truth. As an institution of higher learning and one that promised (in writing) transparency for this project which has been funded in part by public funds, the University of Maine owes the residents of Maine the whole truth and nothing but the truth with regard to their learning about wind power.
It is the state's only official experiment. So please....give us the results and broadcast them far and wide. As far and wide as all the propaganda spread by the previous president. There are many suffering Mainers who need this information widely publicized.
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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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