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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.
Try living by them: challenge to turbine supporters
June 19, 2013 by Amanda Moore in Grimsby Lincoln News
June 19, 2013 by Amanda Moore in Grimsby Lincoln News
Correia, who moved to Wellandport to escape the city life, will have one industrial wind turbine erected at the minimum provincial setback of 550 metres from her home. There will be four others within a four-kilometre radius.
She doesn't want to live next to the monolithic giants.
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]
The macro-economic planning bureau CPB said in its report there should be a halt in the wind turbine programme because the economic crisis has depressed demand for electricity. ‘There is also talk of overcapacity, and every expansion would be loss-making,' the CPB said.
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Energy Policy|
Europe]
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."
The blade of a wind turbine in the Settlers Trail Wind Farm near Sheldon was damaged over the weekend. E.On Climate & Renewables North America, Chicago, is investigating how the damage occurred.
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."
It will cost $695 million a year to produce wind power that Quebec doesn't need
June 17, 2013 by Ariane Gauthier in Montreal Economic Institute
June 17, 2013 by Ariane Gauthier in Montreal Economic Institute
"Quebecers pay literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year to produce electricity from wind turbines that they don't need. This energy is 2.5 times more expensive than hydroelectricity. Even if they account for only a small proportion of the electricity produced here, Hydro-Québec has indicated that the most recent rate hike was due almost entirely to these new projects."
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Tax Breaks & Subsidies|
Canada]
A six-turbine expansion to the wind farm at Waterloo in the Clare Valley has been approved.
The Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council's development assessment panel met on Friday to make a decision on Energy Australia's proposal.
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General|
Australia / New Zealand]
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."
This is taking into account all these factors that arrive at a figure of 14.14 cents for the cost of a kilowatt-hour produced by the wind industry. This is the most expensive energy in all categories: two and a half times the price of that produced by the central Hydro-Quebec, which he estimated at 5.55 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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Energy Policy|
Canada]
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.
Siemens will shut solar unit on $1 billion loss in two years
June 17, 2013 by Alex Webb in Bloomberg News
June 17, 2013 by Alex Webb in Bloomberg News
The company paid $418 million to acquire Beit Shemesh, Israel-based Solel Solar Systems in 2009 as Loescher sought to replicate Siemens' successful expansion into wind-power and win more revenue from its so-called green portfolio. The division was put up for sale in October as prices for solar technology offerings declined because of a supply glut and weak demand.
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.