Three major US banks and senior partners invested billions in the Vineyard Wind project which started construction in Barnstable Massachusetts November 18, 2021. 
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The project derives funds from government actions such as federal tax credits for renewable energy projects. US federal taxpayers pay up to 40 percent and state incentives add another 10 percent.   
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A General Electric 107-meter (351-foot) hybrid blade was developed in 2019 by its holding company LM Wind. 
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The blade was not tested in a rough ocean environment for over one year. At the 290-foot Massachusetts Clean Energy test site a prototype blade was cut in two parts. Engineers extrapolated data to test and certify the blade. A torsion test was not done on the entire prototype blade. 
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GE Vernova is supplying the wind turbines for the Vineyard Wind project. 
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On July 13, 2024, one blade broke off spewing 60 tons of microplastics, foam, fiberglass, and balsa wood. 
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Up to ten percent of the blades made in Canada are defective. The project is on hold. 
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The aging towers, generators, and blades have been in storage for years. Engineers never planned for long-term storage of massive ocean wind turbines. If you went to a car dealer and found a brand new four-year-old car no one would pay the original sticker price as it has maintenance issues from not being used. 
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Vineyard Wind was expected to begin delivering power to the grid in 2023 but is a remake of the Massachusetts land-based wind fiasco. 
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Land-based fiasco:
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To put age in perspective by 2004 the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center bought two Vestas V-82 megawatt wind turbines to jump-start the land-based projects. No community wanted the large turbines so they stayed in storage for years.    
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In 2008 the two old Vestas wind turbines went on the auction block. No one bid on them. 
See " Fate of homeless turbines blowing in the wind " Aug 16, 2008
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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center gave the Town of Falmouth one million in renewable energy credits to take one off their hands and arranged a loan from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the other. 
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The Falmouth turbines made people sick and were removed in 2022. 
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The ocean wind turbines have a saying:  "A deaf whale is a dead whale" 
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Whales and Dolphins are washing up on beaches along with wind turbine blade debris every week. 
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The Vineyard Wind project is expected to be completed in 2025. 
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Offshore wind is a bad investment. 
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Safe nuclear energy will phase out offshore wind.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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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."

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