Comments - Turbine developers to buy former Wiscasset power plant properties - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T09:17:44Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A75346&xn_auth=noWith Cape Wind, 17 entities a…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-03-18:4401701:Comment:753562016-03-18T14:42:53.619ZBarbara Durkinhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/BarbaraDurkin
<p><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font size="2">With Cape Wind, 17 entities and government agencies, the FAA and the USCG, conducted hardware-specific studies, for nearly a decade, to determine that a wind turbine that didn't exist, (GE 3.6 MW wind turbine was "discontinued"), for which there was no manufacturing facility, was a reliable energy source that would produce energy at a reasonable cost. The U.S. Office of Inspector General in…</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"><font size="2">With Cape Wind, 17 entities and government agencies, the FAA and the USCG, conducted hardware-specific studies, for nearly a decade, to determine that a wind turbine that didn't exist, (GE 3.6 MW wind turbine was "discontinued"), for which there was no manufacturing facility, was a reliable energy source that would produce energy at a reasonable cost. The U.S. Office of Inspector General in his Cape Wind Investigative Report (redacted), informed us that technology for Cape Wind was years away...But, the feds and state deemed this energy source reliable and at would produce energy at a reasonable cost???<br/></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"><font size="2">Here we have future office space for a wind developer that lacks a manufacturing facility. Siemens opened an office, too, in Boston. First Wind execs flocked to Xinjiang, China's "Goldwind USA", too, with an office space in Chicago employing eight. </font></font></font></p>
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