UMPI website reports "annual maintenance" - for the first time.
As of February 24, The UMPI turbine website has something new to report - "annual maintenance" has revealed a need for some new parts, which have been ordered. Officials hope to have it working "in early March".
I will be at UMPI on Sunday and will report if the turbine is turning or not. But I won't hold my breath.
The same old 164,808 kWh of power production since mid-November is reported - there has been no update since Feb. 14th.
The turbine's third anniversary will be in early May of 2012.
Not surprisingly, there seems to be no advance celebratory publicity on this event.
Harry Roper Houlton/Danforth
Views: 227
Comment
-
Comment by Long Islander on February 26, 2012 at 11:36am
-
But solar power (that CAN be stored in one's home but NOT on the grid) is something that the utilities and the Kurt Adams' of the world can't profit from at your expense!
-
Comment by Harrison Roper on February 26, 2012 at 11:31am
-
Our experience here in Houlton, fromour 24 photovoltaic panels installed in 1991 on the south-facing roof of our home, is that solar photovoataic panels simply work. Year-round, unless there is snow or ice on them (about six days per year) our panels work essentially year 'round. We get up to 28 amps (at 24 volts) for about three hours every sunny daym more in the summer. Our big battery bank was full at about 10:00 am this sunny morning; it will ttay full until about 3:30 this afternoon even if vacumn and clothes washer and a computer are in use. They are way up on the roof, and with my arthritis, thay are out of reach and untouchable. Yes, solar panels work, they just work. Turbines break down, they just break down; that is what we have learned, so ar, from the UMPI turbine. HR Houlton/Danforth
-
-
I wonder if they can get their money back? They could put it toward solar panels.
-
Comment by Whetstone_Willy on February 24, 2012 at 11:59am
-
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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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/
Not yet a member?
Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?
We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
Task Force membership is free. Please sign up today!
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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
© 2025 Created by Webmaster.
Powered by
You need to be a member of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine to add comments!
Join Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine