facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts Windaction http://www.windaction.org/articles/c117+80?theme=atom Xarayar 2006-06-12T02:16:27Z .38459 2013-05-25T11:52:18Z 2013-05-25T11:52:18Z

Realtor Susan Whitehead said she has been trying to sell a property on Weeden Road for two years. That property was put on the market for reasons unrelated to the turbines, but Whitehead said buyers ask about the machines, which are visible across Little Bay, "100 percent of the time." "They ask about the noise, they ask about the flicker, and then they don't put in an offer," she said.

.37703 2013-03-12T13:23:12Z 2013-03-12T13:23:12Z

There is a 10-megawatt cap of net-metering credits per town as regulated by the state, but the town of Marion does not need to use all of its megawatts. Therefore, Wareham would be able to purchase power from Marion, a host customer, at a discounted price.

.37415 2013-02-17T02:51:50Z 2013-02-17T02:51:50Z

.37036 2013-01-16T12:20:32Z 2013-01-16T12:20:32Z

"Old King's Highway is about views and vistas as well as paint chips and shingle colors," she said. "I felt ARC had other options where to put the turbines." Austin said as the appellant she represents 92 people from Dennis and Yarmouth who formed an organization called Save Our Beaches in opposition to the proposed turbine.

.37035 2013-01-15T20:58:40Z 2013-01-15T20:58:40Z

The postponement came in the wake of Tuesday's meeting, at which panel members were told that figures used to calculate the financial benefits of leaving the turbines running without curtailment were based on faulty methodology. New studies found that Wind 1 generates more power than previous tests have shown, according to Tony Rogers of DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability, an expert employed to study the turbine's power generation.

.35318 2012-06-21T17:36:17Z 2012-06-21T17:36:17Z

Allen, who came on board in October, said the trouble started in 2006 when the department decided to invest in two windmills. At that point, the department had zero debt and took out a $7.3 million mortgage for the project. ...The two windmills went online in January 2010 and the gear box in the southern unit broke in August 2011 and is still offline.

.33727 2011-11-29T17:21:04Z 2011-11-29T17:21:04Z

AMSC, the Devens-based maker of electrical systems for wind turbines, said it has slashed its staff by 20 percent, or about 100 jobs, as it tries to return to profitability after a string of setbacks."

.33575 2011-11-10T17:18:51Z 2011-11-10T17:18:51Z

"We believe that more effort should be made to expose the true costs of energy, including costs that are often hidden as subsidies," Attorney General Martha Coakley said at the start of a broad legislative inquiry into the Green Communities Act of 2008.

.32812 2011-08-19T09:08:09Z 2011-08-19T09:08:09Z

NStar has kept pricing on the three deals confidential, but analysts have estimated the power costs at about 9.4 cents per kilowatt hour. The three deals are fixed price contracts, meaning the price per kilowatt hour doesn't increase over time.

.32369 2011-07-05T00:56:05Z 2011-07-05T00:56:05Z

State officials and Cape Wind supporters are keeping the pressure on Nstar, whose $4.6 billion merger with Northeast Utilities will be dissected in a series of make-or-break regulatory hearings starting tomorrow.

.31527 2011-03-27T17:20:57Z 2011-03-27T17:20:57Z

"Frankly, as a person who represents business, I find it insulting that they're using some little home owner (for comparison)," he said. "It ain't a $1.50 a month to our members." The 468-megawatt Cape Wind project will cost $2.62 billion to build, according a Massachusetts attorney general's office estimate.

.30734 2011-01-12T17:22:49Z 2011-01-12T17:22:49Z

The Devens closing is a major hit to Governor Deval Patrick's efforts to make Massachusetts a hub of the emerging clean-energy industry. The administration persuaded Evergreen to build at Devens with a package of grants, land, loans, and other aid originally valued at $76 million. The company ended up taking about $58 million.

.30452 2010-12-20T20:44:12Z 2010-12-20T20:44:12Z

A broken campaign pledge by Gov. Deval Patrick could end up costing Massachusetts ratepayers big bucks if yet another massive wind farm is built off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. When he first ran for governor in 2005, the then-relatively unknown Patrick broke out of the Democratic pack by endorsing the controversial Cape Wind project.

.30368 2010-12-14T15:36:01Z 2010-12-14T15:36:01Z

The 6,000-member Associated Industries of Massachusetts said in a statement yesterday that the Department of Public Utilities overstepped its powers and set a dangerous precedent for allowing utilities to negotiate agreements outside the competitive bidding process when it approved the deal last month.

.30362 2010-12-13T19:13:05Z 2010-12-13T19:13:05Z

AIM will argue in its appeal that approval of the National Grid/Cape Wind deal by the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) was "arbitrary, capricious," an "abuse of discretion and not otherwise in accordance with the law." AIM believes the agreement sets a dangerous precedent for allowing utilities to negotiate expensive power agreements outside of the competitive bidding process and to allocate the costs of those contracts unfairly to commercial and industrial customers.

.30331 2010-12-10T18:12:55Z 2010-12-10T18:12:55Z

Two parties have filed an appeal with the state Supreme Judicial Court of the decision approving the rate for half of the power from Cape Wind. The Associated Industries of Massachusetts and the TransCanada Corp. have filed the appeal of the state Department of Public Utilities' November decision, said DPU executive director Tim Shevlin.

.30086 2010-11-23T17:49:38Z 2010-11-23T17:49:38Z

"This decision will not only raise costs for our members, but also establishes a dangerous precedent of regulatory rubber-stamping of renewable energy contracts with absolutely no concern for the ratepayer," said Robert Rio, vice president at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

.29475 2010-10-13T16:20:15Z 2010-10-13T16:20:15Z

Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday pointed to jobs the project will produce, announcing that a company based in Middleborough will make the foundations for the giant wind turbines ...The announcement came as the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, released results of a poll where 70 percent of respondents, once apprised of the increase in electric bills associated with the project, said they opposed the project.

.29366 2010-10-05T11:40:51Z 2010-10-05T11:40:51Z

"I used to look at Cape Wind and think, 'Oh, wind power. That's great,'" said Housen, whose firm is one of National Grid's largest customers. "I don't say that anymore. Cape Wind is going to cost us significantly more." To offset the increased expense, Housen said he'll probably have to pass along the increase to customers or delay hiring any new employees.

.29360 2010-10-04T17:30:45Z 2010-10-04T17:30:45Z

And experts say most of those costs will be passed on to the same consumers who, as rate- and taxpayers, will be paying for the cost of planting the turbines off Nantucket Sound - and footing higher energy bills once the project is running. "As they say, there are lies, damned lies and statistics," said energy analyst Robert McCullough. "This is a very expensive project."