UMPI's Promised Wind Turbine Follow Up - Three Years Past Due?
"The turbine is expected to produce about 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and save the institution more than $100,000 annually in electricity charges. It is expected to save an estimated 572 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere each year, or the equivalent of removing 123 cars from the road". - Bangor Daily News, 11/18/09
http://bangordailynews.com/2009/11/18/news/film-on-umpi-windmill-to...
“The University prepared carefully for a discussion of the wind project at
the September meeting of the Trustees. It asked permission for a $2
million total cost project that would install a mid-size wind turbine on
campus property. The president and CFO were armed with data and
prepared for the wide variety of questions that the project could
legitimately have raised, including the possibility of instinctive dislike of
wind power or too bold a campus entrepreneurial activity. Instead of a
grilling, UMPI encountered love fest. The president followed the old
lawyer’s advice: “When the judge rules for you, shut up and sit down.”
UMPI had its emphatic “Yes” in five minutes”.
- UMPI President Donald Zillman in “More Than Tilting At Windmills”, December 2009
http://contentdm.washburnlaw.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wlj/id/5700
Almost seven years later, this is what happens when political correctness replaces the empirical approach:
http://www.umpi.edu/wind/data/
And given that the project was launched with a check handed over by PUC Commissioner Kurt Adams, where's the follow up that now seems to be about 3 years past due? Don't ratepayers deserve accountability?
Two or three years from now, we look forward to writing a follow up on the successes or failures
of the turbine in operation”.
- UMPI President Donald Zillman in “More Than Tilting At Windmills”, December 2009
http://contentdm.washburnlaw.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wlj/id/5700
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Comment by Long Islander on January 6, 2016 at 12:58pm
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Bob, I don't ever recall seeing an electricity consumption figure for the UMPI turbine. The following has some information on this subject which may be of interest to you as it shows how wind projects in Maine are apparently large consumers of electricity.
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/so-called-wind-farms-do...
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Comment by Bob Stone on January 6, 2016 at 12:35pm
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The UMPI website has a production number published but there are problems with the data collection and reporting, apparently. Does anyone know how much electricity was consumed in operating the turbine program from inception to present day?
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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