Vineyard Wind Q2 Power Sales Check The Math

The 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project can produce about 1,728,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity in 90 days if it runs at full power 24/7. Enough to power 400,000 homes. 
.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an independent agency of the United States government, reports Vineyard Wind's power sales for Q2 2026 (April, May, and June). Over 90 days, Vineyard Wind sold approximately 323,600 megawatt-hours of energy. This was analyzed by:  FERC data analyzed by reporters
.
At a continuous capacity of 800 megawatts (MW), the project could produce around 1,752,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy over an average three-month quarter (around 90 days). The project sold 323,600 megawatt-hours of energy in 90 days. 
.
Vineyard Wind, during April, May, and June, the 2nd quarter, sold only 20 percent of the rated power of 800 megawatts?
.
That would be 1/5th of the rated power?
.
Note # The article describes how much power was sold, not how much was produced.
Production remains unknown. 
.
 

Views: 454

Comment

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

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 7, 2026 at 12:48am

Shocker: Conservative Rep Ogles Loses GOP Primary to Challenger Charlie Hatcher who Was Backed By a ‘Renewable’ Energy PAC
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/shocker-conservative-rep-o...

Comment by Frank Haggerty on August 5, 2026 at 11:56am
Production = 800 MW x 8766 h/y x 0.40, capacity factor = 2,805,120 MWh/y or 701,280  MWh in 91 days
 
If FERC  said 323,600  MWh was fed to high voltage grid, i.e., sold to utilities, then a lot of the windmills were not working, of there was not much wind during these three months.
 
If all wind mills were working, the CF would have been 323600/701280 = 0.461 x 0.4 = 0.1845, which is a miserable number 

 

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/

© 2026   Created by Webmaster.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service