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Gridlock on electric 'highways' could stymie renewable generation
Northern New England is turning to the sun, wind and waste wood for clean, renewable power, but there’s a serious problem: the threat of gridlock on electricity “highways.”
A prime example is New Hampshire’s northern Coos County, where there are proposals to build renewable energy plants with roughly 460 megawatts of capacity — two-thirds of the proposed renewable projects in the state — to run over a transmission line that can only handle 100 megawatts.
The bottleneck …
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Windmill denied
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted Wednesday night, February 6 to deny the application of Kurt Karpavich for a residential wind turbine proposed for his residence at 60 Farm Circle.
At the last meeting held regarding the subject of Mr. Karpavich’s application, Joe and Kim Guerrera, who reside on an interior lot bordering the property of Mr. Karpavich, hired lawyer Robert Kolesnik of Kolesnik & Norris of Waterbury, as well as real estate appraiser Douglas Lampert, …
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Windmill dispute continues: Public hearing to be continued February 6
The potential approval of a wind turbine on Kurt Karpavich’s Farm Circle property again provided an impassioned debate during the Planning & Zoning public hearing on Wednesday, January 16.
After much debate Mr. Karpavich was asked by P&Z Chair Dave Minnich if, “there was some means you might consider withdrawing this application?” With the prospect of a long court battle in the future, Mr. Karpavich responded, “it would be easy for me to cop out and …
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Defends Killeen
I am appalled by last week’s “Letter to the Editor” accusing Kevin Killeen of abusing his authority in the stated windmill controversy. First of all, Mr. Killeen was not representing the Board of Education at the last meeting. He attended as a Watertown resident.
If Ms. Smith would have been following the windmill issue, she would have realized that it was the Zoning Board of Appeals who abused their authority when they inappropriately approved a variance …
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For renewable energy, city tilts at windmills
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. might not yet be Don Quixote — but he’s getting closer.
If the Board of Aldermen supports a pilot project for wind energy recently approved by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, energy-harnessing windmills might soon be making an appearance in New Haven.
The CCEF-funded proposal — under which two or more types of wind turbines would be installed at as-yet undetermined locations throughout the city as early as next fall — is meant …
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Emissions, regulation, siting among legislative priorities in Northeast
Legislators in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic passed a number of bills applying to the electric power industry, with several states committing to emissions reductions through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and other states making broad organizational changes to their regulatory processes.
Connecticut lawmakers escaped a repeat of their 2006 legislative session by this year passing an energy bill, House Bill 7432.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell said June 4 she was signing the bill into law, but vetoed …
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Wind power may be in the future for Elm City
NEW HAVEN — Wind turbines may be headed to the Elm City, with possible locations ranging from the summits of East Rock and West Rock to Long Wharf and Lighthouse Point.
The idea is just starting to get off the ground, but the first turbines could be built by fall 2008, according to Emily Byrne, a policy analyst for Mayor John DeStefano Jr.
These turbines should not be confused with windmills, which are used to grind grains …
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Wind power coming to the elm city
New Haven has pledged to reduce carbon emissions 20 percent by 2010. To reach that ambitious goal, the city is promoting energy efficiency, bio-diesel fuel, solar arrays for public buildings — and now, windmills. Will John DeStefano be the Mayor of La Mancha, the Don Quixote of Dixwell?
The city is starting small, with a proposal to install four or five different kinds of wind turbines to see which work best. They will be placed in …
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Town says no to energy plan
Of all the towns that would be candidates for going “green,” Greenwich isn’t ready to adopt a townwide renewable energy program.
Officials balked this week at joining a growing list of municipalities in the state that have pledged to offset at least 20 percent of their electric consumption with renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, by 2010.
Already endorsed by the town’s Conservation Commission, the program is being pushed by SmartPower, a nonprofit …
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Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind?
For almost a year, five turbines on New Jersey’s first coastal wind farm have been generating electricity in Atlantic City, their slowly revolving 118-foot-long blades making the turbines resemble gigantic upright roulette wheels.
They are the first full-size turbines along the coast in New York and New Jersey and the region’s first working examples of a clean-energy technology that supporters say will one day ease dependence on oil and gas and begin to address concerns about …
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