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My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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Tag Archives: wind energy
Wind ban wrong | Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Outdoors
Tagged Mars Hill, moratorium, noice complaints, turbines, wind energy, wind power, windfarms
Updated NREL figures show much greater U.S. wind power potential
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Outdoors
Tagged Energy, offshore wind, wind, wind energy, wind farms, wind power, windmills
Maine sites considered for testing wave energy | Portland Press Herald
Posted in Economy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors
Tagged Advanced Structures & Composites Center, Boon Island, Boothbay Harbor, Central Maine Power, Damariscove Island, Gulf of Maine, Maine Marine Composites LLC, Monhegan Island, Ocean Farm Technologies, Ocean Power Technologies, ocean waves, offshore research center, Resolute Marine Energy Inc., wave energy, wave-energy converters, wind energy, wind power
Offshore wind farm could save $4.6 billion over 25 years
Below are several links, including one to a press release found on Sustainablebusiness.com about a report published by economic consulting firm Charles River Associates. That report apparently suggests that the Cape Wind offshore wind farm alone could save $4.6 billion – that’s with a B – over the next quarter century.
The proposed project would be off the coast of Massachusetts in Nantucket Sound. It is not stretch that proportionally similar savings could be realized from the eventual construction of a proposed project off Maine’s coast.
Of course, such reports usually are funded by the agency that would benefit. Cape Wind Associates LLC funded the report, according to a news story about the report.
Here’s a link to Friday’s press release: “Cape Wind Report: Offshore wind will cut electric prices by $4.6B”
Here’s a link to a previous press release about delays: “Cape Wind faces new obstacle”
Here’s a link to Thursday’s story in the Cape Cod Times about the report: “Cape Wind savings pegged at billions”
Here’s a link to Cape Wind’s website: http://www.capewind.org/.
Activists’ appeal to put wind rules in spotlight | Portland Press Herald
(Maine lawmakers and regulators have to figure out how to fix the problems and get wind power going. Otherwise, there may be no other choice than to hand over the keys to the nation to the Saudis or the Chinese. — KM)
Activists’ appeal to put wind rules in spotlight | Portland Press Herald
Posted in Economy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors
Tagged activists, lawmakers, opponents, proponents, regulators, wind energy, wind farms, wind power
Jackson residents approve wind turbine limits
JACKSON, Maine — Residents this weekend approved a controversial wind turbine ordinance that would impose strict regulations on industrial wind power developments.
Among other things, the ordinance — written by the planning board and the wind energy subcommittee — stipulates that any 400-foot-tall turbines erected must be at least a mile from any houses.
Although the 111-75 vote Saturday morning at a special town meeting has cheered many who oppose large-scale wind facilities in Maine, it also has dismayed some in this rural town of about 500 people who feel the ordinance is too restrictive and shortsighted.
“I was disappointed,” said Duane Lahaye of Jackson, a past member of the planning board who uses several small windmills at his home. “We have to think as an entire nation. We can’t just think as people who don’t want it ‘in my backyard.’ For the better good of everybody, these windmills would have been great.”
The new ordinance replaces a moratorium on wind energy projects that has been in place since January 2009 and was enacted in response to proposals to erect a series of wind towers along Mount Harris and Ricker Ridge in Jackson, Dixmont and Thorndike. Dixmont voters last November approved an ordinance requiring a 1-mile setback between wind turbines and homes.
Click on the link for the rest of today’s story by Abigail Curtis of the Bangor Daily News.
Posted in Economy, Environment
Tagged Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power, Energy, Fair Wind, moratorium, ordinance, turbine, wind energy, wind farms, wind power, windmills
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