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- Germany’s Expensive Gamble on Renewable Energy (8/27/14)
Companies Worry Cost of Plan to Trim Nuclear, Fossil Fuels Will Undermine Competitiveness
- Wind energy utility leasing more than 7,000 acres of land Down East (7/25/14)
TRESCOTT — Atlantic Wind, a subsidiary of a global utility business, has leased thousands of acres in two coastal communities and is gathering data to assess the feasibility of a wind energy project there.
- Dixfield selectmen approve warrant for town meeting on wind energy moratorium (7/28/14)
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen voted 4-1 Monday evening to approve a warrant for a special town meeting where residents will vote on whether to enact a 180-day wind energy facility moratorium.
- Maine regulators again approve joint wind venture (7/22/14)
The Maine Public Utilities Commission once again granted its approval to a multimillion-dollar joint venture to develop wind-generation projects after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturned its initial approval and sent the case back for reconsideration.
- Wind farm company reps met by small army of protestors (7/17/14)
ALEXANDRIA — Well in excess of 100 sign-carrying opponents of wind power from five local towns lined the road in protest when the project developer and attorney for EDP Renewables arrived July 15
- A ‘symbol of embarrassment’ could be spinning again in Portsmouth (7/29/14)
PROVIDENCE — The wind turbine at Portsmouth High School that has sat idle since its gearbox broke in May 2012 could be spinning again within three to six months, ending what Governor Chafee said Monday has been one of a few “symbols of embarrassment” in the state that bother him.
- Groton Wind sound tests pass muster for committee (7/28/14)
GROTON — The amount of sound emitted by the Groton Wind facility in town and in surrounding towns is within the state’s guidelines for such projects, according to a contractor that just conducted tests for the owners of Groton Wind. But two of the original complainants, a Rumney couple, about the sound from the plant’s 400-foot towers, says the sound tests were not done in the right spot.
- Statoil Rejection an Epic Error for Maine, U.S. (7/26/14)
Recent news about a $2.5 billion investment in England by Statoil, the giant Norwegian energy company, has reminded people that Maine kicked the company out of the state. But the real meaning of the state’s action has been greatly underrated. The move was an epic error.
- Settlement reached between Groton Wind and state AG’s office (7/21/14)
GROTON — The Spanish company that built the 24-turbine Groton Wind facility has reached a settlement agreement with the Attorney General’s office that resolves the plant’s issues with the Attorney General, and required the plant owners to pay $150,000 to the ongoing Livermore Falls protection and enhancement project in area towns.
- Cape Wind developer awarded lease option for staging area at Quonset Business Park (7/15/14)
NORTH KINGSTOWN — The Quonset Business Park could be the assembly and staging area for the first two offshore wind farms in the United States after a lease option was awarded on Tuesday to the developer of the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts.