Record Hill Wind Reports a Dismal Quarter of Production

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Comment by Steve Thurston on November 14, 2018 at 12:20pm

Thanks Dan.   Not only is the production pathetic, Record Hill Wind gets $1 million per year of its income not from selling electricity but from providing "capacity".  This is an outrage.  Wind turbines cannot provide capacity because they cannot be called upon to ramp up when demand requires.  These capacity payments for wind turbines are just another part of the scam that is unknown to the public due to media bias.   Here's a complete picture of RHW's FERC reports from project start in 2011:

	RECORD HILL WIND LLC		ROXBURY, ME
	project size mw	qtr nameplate cap
	50.6	110814
quarter	production	qtr capacity factor	capacity payments	cap $/mwh
3-2018	10,500	9%	$225,817	$21.51
2-2018	22,321	20%	$270,357	$12.11
1-2018	35,529	32%	$305,996	$8.61
4-2017	30,981	28%	$305,996	$9.88
3-2017	14,557	13%	$240,663	$16.53
2-2017	21,865	20%	$171,873	$7.86
1-2017	38,502	35%	$137,478	$3.57
4-2016	36,187	33%	$137,478	$3.80
3-2016	20,055	18%	$111,954	$5.58
2-2016	26,574	24%	$176,003	$6.62
1-2016	37,591	34%	$208,028	$5.53
4-2015	34,805	31%	$208,028	$5.98
3-2015	17,859	16%	$169,414	$9.49
2-2015	29,601	27%	$188,869	$6.38
1-2015	43,452	39%	$198,597	$4.57
4-2014	37,182	34%	$198,597	$5.34
3-2014	19,428	18%	$161,734	$8.32
2-2014	25,076	23%	$180,665	$7.20
1-2014	42,069	38%	$190,131	$4.52
4-2013	37,775	34%	$190,131	$5.03
3-2013	22,363	20%	$154,785	$6.92
2-2013	26,403	36%	$51,449	$1.95
1-2013	39,911	36%	$58,829	$1.47
4-2012	29,504	27%	$59,012	$2.00
3-2012	17,799	16%	$48,087	$2.70
2-2012	24,894	22%	$48,087	$1.93
1-2012	37,907	34%	$52,088	$1.37
4-2011	6,596	6%	$33,278	$5.05
AVG	28,117	26%	$160,122	$6.49

Comment by Dan McKay on November 14, 2018 at 9:08am

Rollins Wind ( 60 MW )a subsidized wind project by Power Purchase Agreement with the ratepayers of CMP and Bangor-Hydro :

Quarter 3 2018

23,464.73 megawatt-hours 

$ 1,523,154.67 in sales at an average price of $62.95 per megawatt-hour as per Power Purchase Agreement

Note: Record Hill Wind is a 50.6 MW wind project that is a merchant plant that sells it's energy to the wholesale market. Quarter 3 2018: average sales price was $38.54 per megawatt-hour.

Comment by arthur qwenk on November 13, 2018 at 8:13pm

Wind power in Maine, the farce that keeps taking,from the taxpayer.

Comment by Long Islander on November 13, 2018 at 6:06pm

The investigation conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has uncovered numerous examples of dysfunction, negligence and mismanagement by DOE officials, raising troubling questions about the leadership at DOE and how it has administered its loan guarantee programs.”

The report shows that the Department of Energy (DOE) “approve[d] Record Hill Wind’s $102 million loan guarantee project as “innovative,” despite the project using commercial technology. DOE knew that the Record Hill project did not use significantly innovative technology.”

“the Record Hill Wind project attempted to categorize minor modifications to existing commercial technology as “innovativeness.” DOE eventually agreed with Record Hill Wind’s questionable reasoning”

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/developing-u-s-senate-h...