UMPI website down - for a full week
The UMPI website is once again not working, for the past week. There have been some good wind days, and maybe it was generating power and not reporting it for some reason. No explanation is offered. This is a rather common situation. Eventually it gets fixed.
Friday 2/18 at 6:00 pm the UMPI website reported net power produced 1,099,296 kWh; since then it has reported zero net power. I will continue to monitor the site daily.
You will also be interested to know that when driving thru Lincoln 2/23, about ten huge white turbine bases arevisible, all the way across the lake from the downtown lakeside gazebo. You can't miss them. This is the Rollins project, and construction seems to be proceeding apace. None of the bases have nacelles or blades, yet. I hope the citizens like the view.
Every one of the Stetson turbines seemed to be turning. How much power they are making is a deep dark secret, for some sacred commercial reason.
Harry Roper - Houlton/Danforth
Harry
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Comment by Harrison Roper on March 1, 2011 at 2:49pm
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Thank you, Long Islander, for your presentation of the data page of the UMPI turbine website and particularly the updated power output capacity record, highlighted in RED.
Here are a few more observations:
When there is a good wind, and the blades' pitch is at a low number, the turbine is usually generating good power. This afternoon at about 2:15 pm the wind is 13.9 mph, the blades are at 1.3 degrees; the generator iss turning at 1805 rpm and momentary power output is reported at 91.5 kw.
As it it has been for the past ten or so days, "power" production (actually meaning "net power production since commissioning") nevertheless is reported to be zero. I trust the problem is in the data reporting software and not in the turbine itself. The turbine was turning at 16.8 rpm (about half speed) late Sunday afternoon, in a light breeze.
Harry Roper - Houlton/Danforth
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Comment by Long Islander on March 1, 2011 at 8:00am
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Well, it's March 1st and the UMPI wind turbine we site again shows zero production.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on February 27, 2011 at 7:35pm
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harrison I wish you meet Elaine Robichaud, Maliseet Nation Houlton band
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Using the last observed reported production of 1,099,296 KWH, project to date efficiency stands at a mere 11.67%.
Of course, the UMPI live turbine data website is not working and there is no explanation.
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thank you for keep reporting. any chance you will drive to Dixfield March 10 and have supper with us and then listen to people tell DEP and IFWL their thoughts on the impacts of theses turbines?
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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
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"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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