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Xcel's legal filing claims New Era agreed to pay delay damages if it did not meet various milestone dates. That language was approved by the PUC in 2010 for two 39-megawatt contracts.
Additionally, Xcel's lawsuit claims that New Era was required to establish a security fund totaling $5.85 million ...the fund was never created.
A Boston-based wind power developer that wants to build a $398 million, 62-turbine wind farm in the area has encountered opposition from a local nonprofit group as the company begins the permitting process.
County Supervisors sued for wind turbine-friendly approach
June 19, 2013 by Dorian Hargrove in San Diego Reader
June 19, 2013 by Dorian Hargrove in San Diego Reader
Tisdale and her fellow plaintiffs say many landowners in rural San Diego County have come under pressure to sell or lease portions of their land to developers. The decision by county supervisors to tailor the County's General Plan and zoning ordinance by blowing up the restrictions on wind farms and individual wind turbines, only makes matters worse.
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General|
California]
KWI’s co-manager giving marching orders to Pine duBois, Mark Beaton
June 19, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal
June 19, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal
In the email, Ruiz responds to a Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC) flicker study which found that some residences in Kingston receive over 80 hours of shadow flicker annually.
"Mark [Beaton] and Pine [duBois] please spread the word [the CEC's flicker study] is largely nonsense," Ruiz writes in the scathing email.
San Diego County Supervisors sued over flawed Wind Energy Ordinance
June 18, 2013 by Donna Tisdale in The Protect Our Communities Foundation (POC) & Backcountry against dumps (BAD)
June 18, 2013 by Donna Tisdale in The Protect Our Communities Foundation (POC) & Backcountry against dumps (BAD)
San Diego County Supervisors are being sued over their May 15th approval of the technically and legally flawed Wind Energy Ordinance & Plan Amendment-that benefits wealthy industrial wind and solar developers, San Diego Gas & Electric, Sempra, and absentee land-owners at the expense of rural east county residents and valued resources.
Critics blast Maine's 'expedited' wind permitting process
June 18, 2013 by Susan Sharon in Maine Public Broadcasting Network
June 18, 2013 by Susan Sharon in Maine Public Broadcasting Network
"If you are so in favor of this legislation, brothers and sisters, put a 480-foot windmill in your backyard and see how long you last!" said Democratic Rep. Brian Jones, of Freedom. Jones says the residents who have those windmills in their communities should have the right to say whether they want them or not.
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Energy Policy|
Maine]
Fairhaven sends written order to turn turbines off overnight, asks for funds
June 18, 2013 by Ariel Wittenberg in South Coast Today
June 18, 2013 by Ariel Wittenberg in South Coast Today
Fairhaven Wind developer Gordon Deane announced his intention Monday to recover from the town the lost profits of the two turbines the Fairhaven Board of Health ordered shut down overnight.
His announcement was in reaction to news earlier Monday that the Board of Health had issued a written order to shut down the turbines at night.
Connecticut law exposes Vermont’s duplicity on energy credits
June 18, 2013 by Jon Margolis in VT Digger
June 18, 2013 by Jon Margolis in VT Digger
"Subsidies for renewables make sense only if they're achieving a societal benefit," said staff attorney Ed McNamara in a handwritten note on one draft report. "Without retirement of RECs, the only societal benefit of Vermont's program is economic development (and through) an inefficient method."
On Thursday the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources will hold a hearing in Lowell on Green Mountain Power's request to kill up to four of the bats a year at the Kingdom Community Wind site in Lowell.
The request comes as bat populations in the Northeast have been decimated by a fungal disease called white nose syndrome.
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Impact on Bats|
Vermont]
"On Vinalhaven, on Nantucket, in the Pacific Northwest - all across the country as green energy gains traction - reactions to wind projects are elucidating larger American values. If Vinalhaven is any example, American individualism may struggle to find a place in the new green economy."
Fairhaven wants turbine developer to help pay for sound engineer
June 17, 2013 by Ariel Wittenberg in South Coast Today
June 17, 2013 by Ariel Wittenberg in South Coast Today
"Continued operation of the wind turbines ... in excess of the limit set forth in the DEP noise regulations, during the hours of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., constitutes a nuisance which is injurious to the public health," the order reads. The board also "hereby orders that the turbines not operate from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. until such time that the order is removed by the Board of Health."
DPS says GMP violated noise levels, but shouldn't face fines
June 17, 2013 by Robin Smith in Caledonian Record
June 17, 2013 by Robin Smith in Caledonian Record
The Vermont Department of Public Service recommended that state utility regulators find the Lowell wind project in violation of its operating certificate for exceeding noise limits four times last winter.
However, the department asked the Vermont Public Service Board not to impose sanctions right away on Green Mountain Power, which operates the Lowell wind project, to give GMP time to remedy the problems that caused excessive noise, according to filings with the board.
Runway extension could affect wind farm plans
June 17, 2013 by Steve Clark in The Brownsville Herald
June 17, 2013 by Steve Clark in The Brownsville Herald
The project could meet an obstacle in the form of Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport's plans to extend its runway ...A longer runway would mean planes on approach would fly lower farther away from the airport, which could preclude construction of towering wind turbines.
Atlantic wind power 'backbone' plan amended? Plan now envisions Jersey-only offshore cable
June 16, 2013 by Bob Jordan in Asbury Park Press
June 16, 2013 by Bob Jordan in Asbury Park Press
Part of the idea was to link wind farms planned from Boston to Virginia so each could offset dips in power generation by the others and make the power supply more reliable. ...At the time, NRG Energy still planned a wind farm off of Delaware and interest in a similar outpost off of Ocean City, Md., was growing.
Since then, however, NRG Energy has shelved its Delaware plan and progress in Maryland has dcragged on slowly.
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Offshore Wind|
New Jersey]
Hydropower could play a larger role in New England's energy mix as five of the region's states, including Massachusetts, move to import more of it - most likely from Canada - and at least one has passed a law that could allow electricity from large-scale hydrolectric dams to be classified as green as wind or solar energy.
Also filed under [
Energy Policy|
Massachusetts]
Taxpayers are forced to subsidize wind power
June 15, 2013 by Julie Johnson in The Columbus Dispatch
June 15, 2013 by Julie Johnson in The Columbus Dispatch
Two-thirds of the cost of wind development is paid for by taxpayers. New subsidized power from remote states will be paid for by the ratepayer/taxpayer. Congress has called for the phaseout of wind subsidies. When that happens, the new transmission lines surely will be the next "bridge to nowhere." Happy Global Wind Day.
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Tax Breaks & Subsidies|
Ohio]
Discussion Thursday reflected the strong support among House members for renewable energy, especially wind power, and the more sympathetic posture among senators to critics who say the process for siting wind turbines needs big improvements.
Legislation introduced on the Senate side originally called for a moratorium on new wind-power development.
Also filed under [
Energy Policy|
Vermont]
The fate of the proposed Black Fork Wind Farm will soon be one step closer to being decided, as its approval by the state continues to be considered by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Osage Nation objects to wind-turbine company's potentially precedent-setting request to kill bald eagles
June 14, 2013 in Indian Country Today
June 14, 2013 in Indian Country Today
"The eagle is a sacred and symbolic figure to the Osage people, and the area targeted for this project contains a high bald eagle population. We oppose the specific area for this project. It all comes down to siting projects in appropriate places, and this is not an appropriate place for a massive wind energy project."
Kingston flicker study shows locations get more than 30 hours a year
June 14, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston
June 14, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston
The results of the analysis come as no surprise to residents who have documented the flicker effect in their homes ...They have said all along the estimated 30 hours of flicker a year that was anticipated was grossly inadequate. ...188 properties are expected to receive greater than 10 flicker hours per year; 54 are expected to receive greater than 30 flicker hours per year.
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