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Resource Documents: Oregon (11 items)
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Very Low Wind Generation Period of Jan-09, and a 1-Year Lookback at Frequency of Very Low Wind Gen Periods
Author: Bonneville Power Authority
The very low wind generation period of Jan-09 has ended, after: • more than 11-1/2 continuous days with total wind gen <50 MW: 14-Jan-09 02:43:00 thru 25-Jan-09 17:13:00 (11 days, 14.5 hours); and • more than 8-1/2 continuous days <10 MW: 14-Jan-09 16:59:00 thru 23-Jan-09 07:37:00 (8 days, 14.6 hours) How often in the past year have we seen others periods of “very low” wind generation? The next plot shows the Percent of Time by Week Where Total Wind Gen Was <50 MW over the last 56 . . .
More »Aesthetics, Environment, Health, Human rights, Noise, Oregon, Wildlife •
Wind Towers in Telocaset, Oregon
Author: Stein-Swanson, Fay
I have lived in our small farming/ranching community for 25 years. The Horizon Wind Project and Union County planners had not contacted four of the families that live here, since we didn’t sign up to have wind towers on our properties. We are the ones that have these things less than a half mile away. We have 6 towers on the back hill adjacent to our property. Since these towers were erected in December, I have had a variety of . . .
More »Noise Control Regulations Related to Wind Energy Facilities
Author: Lawton, Catharine
Catharine Lawton, of West Bend, Wisconsin, wrote an extensive commentary to the Oregon Department of Energy on proposed noise control regulations related to wind energy facilities in Oregon. (Oregon went on implement the revised rules in favor of the wind industry, throwing out the existing rules protecting rural quiet [which the industry called “difficult” and “burdensome”]). Some of Lawton’s comments are summarized: The maximum allowable noise level should be no higher than 35 or 40 dB(A), or 5dB(A) over the . . .
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