atdub,
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Originally Posted by atdub
Ahhh no its a list of definitions.
What would you classify a sufficient wind regime for viable wind project? Use any metric you require.
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The bottom line is that any project MUST produce ELECTRICITY generation. Industrial turbines in most of the Northeast, mid-Atlantic region don't have wind patterns that WILL produce meaningful electric generation. Investigate the Steel Winds UPC project.
kev6t stated:"Renewable energy producers are allowed to sell their certificates to other energy suppliers who are unable to produce the required amount of energy by renewable means. It's a way of supporting a renewable industry until it is able to compete with the established energy companies."
The facts are that REC credits have been sold from Steel Winds to the State of Mass.. as in the above example) when NO ELECTRICITY was generated. That's call FRAUD in our world!
If atdub is so insistent to site industrial wind turbines in NYS the only wind patterns for a class 4 or 5 wind exist along Long Island and Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Steel Winds in located ON Lake Erie, near Buffalo in a brownzone. That may be a reasonable site. However, the Clipper turbines have never worked and are in the process of be disassembled at this very time.
CWW could support a C-BED model (community base project restricted to an industrial zoned area) and would encourage small residential generation systems.
You may be in love with the fantasy that wind is a broad base solution, but the reality in the States is that industrial wind projects can’t be justified in any populated area that doesn’t have consisted wind patterns (gov’t stats clearly provide the evidence).
The mid-West has sufficient wind in many areas. But the ex-Enron executives are NOT in the business to actually generate electricity. They have refined their old scam to the level that electric utilities are bound by law to pay for electric production that IS NEVER PRODUCED. Payment based upon nameplate capacity is insane and immoral.
Is this a sufficient answer Mr. Atdub ???
James Hall