Green Mountain Power Wind Power Project Third-Year Operating Experience: 1999-2000
Electric Power Research Institute
Electric Power Research Institute
EPRI reported that the ridgeline facility in Searsburg, Vermont, produced no electricity at all – not even a trickle – almost 40% of the time:
“On average, the Searsburg turbines generate electricity more than 60% of the time. … Individual turbines generated electricity 51% to 75% of the time during the third year, and from 45% to 77% of the time during the second year. The turbine generation time is related to both wind speed and availability.”
A summary of the data in this document along with further discussion of the Searsburg facility in southern Vermont is available at AWEO.org [1].
Download original document: “Green Mountain Power Wind Power Project Third-Year Operating Experience: 1999-2000 [2]”
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/green-mountain-power-wind-power-project-third-year-operating-experience-1999-2000/
URLs in this post:
[1] AWEO.org: http://www.aweo.org/windsearsburg.html
[2] Green Mountain Power Wind Power Project Third-Year Operating Experience: 1999-2000: https://docs.wind-watch.org/epri_vt-searsburg_3.pdf