The UMPI website has posted the turbine's power output for the past week, Friday May 4 - Friday May 11:  12,324 KWh was generated by its 600 kw turbine in tha past week.  12,324 KWh divided by the 100,800 KWh per week installed capacity (600 KW X 7 days X 24 hours ) gives a Capacity Factor of 12.2 %,  slightly less than than the average 12.7 CF for the previous 164 days. Before mid-November, it was non-operative for 164 continuous days. 

I am hoping UMPI will continue posting a weekly power report like this - it is more tha we can learn from Maine's industrial wind power producers.

Harry Roper  Houlton/Danforth

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Comment by Long Islander on May 12, 2012 at 10:53am

Having produced at 12.7% for the referenced 164 days, watch how low this drops as we move into the less windy weather. 

Comment by Harrison Roper on May 12, 2012 at 10:49am

Promoters of wind power usually make such statements as:  "can produce enough power for 14,000 homes", with no other details. In my experience, after observing output data from most of the Maine wind farms that report to the Federal Energy Rugolations Commission you can divide the optimistic  "power for ..... homes"  figure  by three.    

Harrison Roper  Houlton/Danforth 

Comment by Willem Post on May 12, 2012 at 8:32am
Comment by Long Islander on May 11, 2012 at 6:37pm

It would be nice if they would post kWH project to date, considering the three year anniversary of the commissioning is Monday. May 14th.

 

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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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