wind power for quincy june 10, 2008

Wind Power for QuincyJune 10, 2008

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Why Wind?

• It’s an affordable source of zero emission electricity!– cheaper than natural gas or oil over life of

turbine– you can lock in your cost of power for 25

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New England is Lagging

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Massachusetts Can Do More

• 119 cities and towns in Massachusetts have an average wind speed capable of making wind power economically viable

• It’s probably not possible to solve the global warming problem if these communities fail to build wind turbines

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Massachusetts Wind Speeds

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Supply Status Quo

• National Grid’s current mix is mostly natural gas, oil, nuclear and large hydro, some landfill gas

• New England’s electricity mix is vulnerable to natural gas price spikes, higher costs for environmental regulation, higher costs for capacity, etc.– watch natural gas prices rise in days and years

ahead

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Supply Options

• Larry Chretien’s prediction: We’ll never see another nuclear or coal plant built in New England

• You can’t lock in a good price with renewable energy unless you own it or contract long term

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Dollars and Sense

• Revenue or Avoided Costs– Electricity, value ~ 10 cents per kWh today

& going up– Renewable Energy Certificates, value ~ 4

cents per kWh

• Cost of O&M ~ 3 cents per kWh

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Virtual Net Metering

• Senator Morrissey’s legislation would allow projects of up to 2 MW to earn the full retail rate per kWh, offsetting the city’s costs for transmission, distribution, transition, and energy supply – about 16 cents per kWh today and more tomorrow

– Makes community ownership better than ever before

– limit to how many turbines can receive this benefit• beyond the limit, turbines would earn the wholesale rate, which

is about 10 cents today

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Seize the Moment

• There will be more wind turbines built throughout Massachusetts and the price of fossil fuels will continue to rise.

• Do Quincy taxpayers want to pay more energy by buying it from others or do we want to save money by generating it ourselves?

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Hull I and II

Hull 1 = 660 kW, 1500 MWh/yr.Hull 2 = 1,800 kW, 4000 MWh/yr.www.hullwind.org

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IBEW Local 103, Dorchester

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Portsmouth Abbey – Rhode Island

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Mass Maritime Wind

Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay MA

660 kW

Installed early 2006

Source: Renewable Energy Access website

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Forbes Loft ChelseaTurboWind T600

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Maple Ridge, NY

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Princeton, MAcomputer visualization, expected to be on-line May 2009

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Hoosac Windcomputer visualization

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Danish Wind Farm

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Make the Clean Energy Choice

• Mass. Technology Collaborative will award Quincy with a $25,000 solar array if enough people make contributions to Mass Energy’s green power programs by June 30

• Support wind and solar www.newenglandwind.org

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Thomas Edison said:

• "Some day some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing up sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire…

• You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy…Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel.”