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Wind-farm project in Paynesville a year behind schedule
pioneer press ^ | 12-26-11 | ap

Posted on 12/29/2011 5:49:33 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB

A wind farm that was to be the first such large-scale operation in central Minnesota is about a year behind schedule.

Edina-based Geronimo Wind Energy has the necessary permits to build the 95-megawatt wind farm. But the company hasn't been able to find a utility company willing to buy its energy. Geronimo spokesman Charlie Daum attributed the delay to a slow market.

"That's really the only thing that's holding us back right now," Daum said, adding that the situation was "not a concern as much as a frustration."

By now, as many as 60 turbines, each about 400 feet high, were supposed to be scattered across fields north of Paynesville, producing electricity and income for local farmers, according to a story in the St. Cloud Times. Geronimo planned to put up the turbines this year and expected them to be generating electricity between July and September.

But progress stalled as the company failed to secure a buyer for the power.

Geronimo has sought buyers inside and outside Minnesota, and Daum said it was surprising that utilities didn't seem eager to lock in long-term contracts to secure power at today's low prices.

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: energy; farce; green; greenenergy; wind

1 posted on 12/29/2011 5:49:43 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB
A fundamental part of any business plan is THE CUSTOMER.
Pity they overlooked this factiod...
2 posted on 12/29/2011 5:53:03 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Gimme that old time fossil fuel.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Austerity pulling plug on Europe’s green subsidies
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/eric-reguly/austerity-pulling-plug-on-europes-green-subsidies/article1883888/

Too bad we don’t do the same


3 posted on 12/29/2011 5:55:29 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
...then suddenly, without warning, a huge gust of wind hit the turbine...

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

4 posted on 12/29/2011 5:58:40 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I read this morning that St. Paul's city government wants to sell off all the city government buildings along the riverfront.
Think of all those government bow wows having to face relocation to less desirable digs. The horror...
5 posted on 12/29/2011 6:00:26 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Gimme that old time fossil fuel.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Low prices my foot. Scamarama. Double that because they are so ugly. A visual example of govt with too much money, managed by too many people at a time when both should be non issues.


6 posted on 12/29/2011 6:01:24 AM PST by wita
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To: WOBBLY BOB

No doubt in coming centuries these useless towers will be regarded as obscure totems for the superstitious worship of false gods, sort of like a latter-day stonehenge.


7 posted on 12/29/2011 6:01:34 AM PST by Oceander (TINSTAAFL - Mother Nature Abhors a Free Lunch almost as much as She Abhors a Vacuum)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Doctor, I keep having this nightmare where I wake up sitting on windmill, a very tall windmill. what do you think it means?

I think it means you have invested lots of money in something with a propeller that won’t fly.


8 posted on 12/29/2011 6:08:37 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I heard that with out tax credits they would not exist.

I also heard they are filled with copper wire.


9 posted on 12/29/2011 6:16:32 AM PST by hadaclueonce (how is that hope working out? here is your change and I am going to keep it.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Funny to see Paynesville mentioned on FR! I had a client come to me to review paperwork that was being shoved down his throat for this project. The developers wanted to slap nasty easements all across his century farm. THANKFULLY he took my advice and ignored their pleas. Frankly, in this state, I'm surprised he still has a choice...

On another similar note, the local libtards/envirowhacos are up in arms 30 miles up the road in Willmar as the local utility commission has rejected $600k in “free money” designated for a ridiculous solar project. Bless their hearts! That helps partially offset the money they wasted 3 years ago on the two-turbine project just north of town. Those have become a running (or... non-running) joke around here.

10 posted on 12/29/2011 6:27:14 AM PST by mn-bush-man
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To: WOBBLY BOB; ApplegateRanch; Whenifhow; WL-law; Berlin_Freeper; Horusra; Darnright; rdl6989; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

11 posted on 12/29/2011 6:31:28 AM PST by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
But the company hasn't been able to find a utility company willing to buy its energy.

Deflation ping

12 posted on 12/29/2011 6:36:57 AM PST by spokeshave (Ron Paul finally lit a match after dousing himself with gasoline)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“Geronimo”?

The PCLU let them get away with that?


13 posted on 12/29/2011 6:41:56 AM PST by moovova (Report my sarcastic, fear-mongering, hate-filled lies to www.AttackWatch.com by clicking HERE.)
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To: spokeshave

FERC to the rescue! They will make some company buy it at their avoided cost.

I wish I was making this up.


14 posted on 12/29/2011 6:43:06 AM PST by hadaclueonce (how is that hope working out? here is your change and I am going to keep it.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
For any of you windys, It is the DUMBEST energy idea ever. HUGE footprint. Expensive. Maintenance nightmare. Only operates within limited parameters (wind speed, low & high). Has to have 100% conventional backup for when the wind don't blow. Noise pollution. Bird shredder. To name a few negatives.

You know, when you see those huge white derelict satellite dishes? Just imagine that 100 times bigger. Also, when one of those satellite dishes falls over (I'm sure you have seen some of those), it doesn't CRUSH anyone or block any roads.

Just because we CAN doesn't mean we SHOULD.

15 posted on 12/29/2011 6:56:21 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: mn-bush-man

Utilities Commission rejects further study of proposed solar energy project in Willmar, Minn.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2826076/posts

green weenies on a losing streak lately.


16 posted on 12/29/2011 7:53:42 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I work by there...they’ve been trying since 2008.(maybe try lowering the price???)

Before that all the jailed suspects awaiting trial or transfer had it along with county employees next door. Made great sense...give criminals the best view of the river.The criminal’s baby mommas used to like standing on Wabasha bridge with all their kids to wave to babydaddy and he’d be in the cell window waving back.


17 posted on 12/29/2011 8:04:06 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I remember the area pretty well.
My office was at 778 Otto Ave.

It was once the Shell Oil fuel terminal/wearhouse, just off West 7th. It is now a big multi-family housing project. The ground was, ahhh, remediated.

18 posted on 12/29/2011 8:18:45 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Gimme that old time fossil fuel.)
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To: Oceander

“No doubt in coming centuries these useless towers will be regarded as obscure totems for the superstitious worship of false gods, sort of like a latter-day stonehenge.”

I thought that was what the Chevy Volt was for.


19 posted on 12/29/2011 9:15:02 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Control the media, you control its citizens.)
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