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Resource Documents: Maine (45 items)
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Wind Power Project Easement
Author: Saddleback Ridge Wind
THIS EASEMENT is made by and between —— (“Grantor”), the owner(s) of a certain lot or parcel of land situated in the Town of Carthage, Franklin County, Maine (… the “Property”) … and SADDLEBACK RIDGE WIND, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company having a mailing address at 549 South Street, Quincy, MA 02169 (“Grantee”) … WHEREAS Grantee plans to operate a wind power project, including wind turbine generators and towers on Saddleback Mountain in Carthage, Maine and related equipment, facilities, infrastructure . . .
More »Maine wind sites — production for year 2012
Author: Blake, Brad
Maine Wind Farm Generation 2012 [Data extracted from FERC spreadsheets by Brad Blake, Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power] Wind Facility Mars Hill Stetson 1 Stetson 2 Kibby Mtn. Rollins Record Hill TOTAL In-Service Date (initial) August 2007 January 2009 March 2010 October 2009 July 2011 November 2011 Approximate Cost $95,000,000 $175,000,000 $70,000,000 $320,000,000 $180,000,000 $125,000,000 $965,000,000 Turbine Type GE 1.5 MW GE 1.5 MW GE 1.5 MW Vestas 3.0 MW GE 1.5 MW Siemens 2.3 MW Turbine Number 28 38 17 44 40 22 189 . . .
More »Fox Islands Wind Neighbors v. Maine DEP
Author: Fox Islands Wind Neighbors
In this case residents living near the wind energy project (the “Project”) of Fox Islands Wind (“FIW”) on Vinalhaven and an organization they formed to protect their respective interests, Fox Islands Wind Neighbors (“FIWN”), challenge the Condition Compliance Order issued by the Department of Environmental Protection (the “DEP”) on June 30, 2011, Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) Administrative Record, as revised April 20, 2012 (“AR”), 142, Petitioners’ Rule SOC Brief Appendix (“Pet. App.”) 124, following earlier findings by the DEP . . .
More »Mars Hill and Degrading Performance
Author: Gulden, Wayne
About 6 months ago John Harrison started calculating how the performance of wind turbines degrades over time. He noted that as projects are in place over a number of years that their Capacity Factor (the percentage of their nameplate capacity that they actually generate) annually decreased somewhere in the 1-2% range. For example, a project that operated at a CF of 30% initially could be expected to be operating in the 15% CF range after 10 years of a 1.5% . . .
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