The wind insanity just gets better and better. I noted over on the JLL blog that Iberdrola
is suddenly proposing a 376 MW wind factory in Clayton. What happened to the 96 MW that was
proposed? BP has upped their wind proposal for Cape Vincent to 285 MW. That’s
661 MWs total. It appears the wind developers are getting a
little more bold now that they think they have it in the bag with Article X. Or is it a bluff and they will shoot for
something less in reality after they scare the crap out of everyone?
But let’s look at this a bit. How does 661 MW play out in turbine numbers.
That would be 440 - 1.5 MW turbines, or
330 – 2MW turbines, or
220 – 3MW turbines.
Of course all this gets added to the current 86
turbines on Wolfe Is. So the worst case
local scenario with the 1.5MW turbines could be 526 turbines!
Now I think it’s very erroneous to think that less
of the bigger 500 ft plus turbines makes this any better. You either spread the
impact out horizontally with the small turbines, or you spread it upward and
outward with the larger taller turbines.
A couple of commenters at JLL saw it this way:
285 divided by 1.5 =
190 turbines. What happened to the plan for 146 turbines. Oh -could it be
possible the turbines will be bigger/taller with larger output? Probably!
Anonymous said...
yes
the gross peter said they were looking at the bigger and taller 2.5's
They not only want to spoil our town they want to do it big time
the gross peter said they were looking at the bigger and taller 2.5's
They not only want to spoil our town they want to do it big time
Yup… now your getting the picture. If you think the
new Cape Vincent Comp Plan and the new Zoning Law are the end of the game, you
might want to stay tuned and we might want to warm up that Article X protest “revolution”
some people on the blogs have been talking about.
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