Record Hill Wind Reports a Dismal Quarter of Production

Record Hill Wind Reports a Dismal Quarter of Production
RECORD HILL WIND LLC
Quarter 3 2018
10,500.52 megawatt-hours went to market
$ 821,502.92 received for energy and capacity
9.47% capacity factor

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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...

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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