UMPI website is now working again, with no explanation offered

 My self-imposed task of monitoring of the UMPI turbine website continues. The latest ten-day net power production for this 600 kW turbine averaged 935.7 kWh per day.  That's 6.6% of "rated capacity"! 

My casual log of rotor windspeeds shows the following  momentary data:  (Rotor-level wind speed in mph)  4.3; 2.5; calm; 7.8; 3.8; calm;14.5; 13.9; 7.4; 9.6; 5.1; calm, calm, calm, 3.1; 5.4; 3.4; 13.2; 10.5; 15.2; (one day I skipped; the next day, 2/08, the site reported all zeroes), calm.

  Two days (2/05 and 2/06) racked up an average of 3827 kWh per day, or 26.9% of capacity. And those were "good" days; many days were negative power production. When the wind  was calm, the turbine reported drawing from the grid at rates varying from -.4 kW  to -5.4 kW.

AND PROMOTERS TOUT MAINE (AND OTHER PLACES) AS THE "SAUDI ARABIA OF WIND"! 

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Comment by Harrison Roper on February 8, 2011 at 12:03pm

Update on the above: Right now (2/08/11 at 11:50 am)  the UMPI turbine website reports ground wind at 12 mph and rotor-level wind at the same 12 mph. Yet the power being produced (at the moment) is an enigmatic MINUS 3.7 kW. 

  The turbine is reported to have produced a net 900 kWh in the past 24 hours. This is exactly 1.5 hours of the installed power potential, or a 6.25% "capacity factor".

H. Roper - Houlton/Danforth

 

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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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