Posted on 12/06/2016 9:58:36 AM PST by lowbridge
Three windmill-like turbines loom motionless over the city of Port Angeles’ new Waterfront Park.
The $107,516 spires stand immobile more than two months after they were erected and more than a year after the city council approved them.
Once they are working to generate electricity, they will produce so little power — $1.50 worth of electricity a month in savings — that at least one council member is regretting her decision to purchase them.
They have not been activated because the city is involved in an inspection-related dispute with the manufacturer, UGE International Ltd. of New York City, Community and Economic Development Director Nathan West said last week.
The impasse could be resolved by January, after projects with a higher priority are taken care of, West said.
The turbines will power the 31 lights that illuminate the park, Deputy Power Systems Manager Shailesh Shere said last week.
They can generate up to 3 kilowatts an hour but under normal conditions will generate a quarter of that, Shere said.
Shere said they are expected to generate $1.50 worth of electricity a month, based on current retail Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) rates.
City Councilwoman Sissi Bruch said last week the turbines were intended to do more than generate electricity.
“They were also meant to educate folks about wind power,” she said.
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Wind power is not a silver bullet, and is not ideal for all regions, but wind production in Texas drives down the cost of natural gas and coal for everyone.
I am open to the idea, but only if it is truly cost effective.... taking into account production and maintenance costs.....And... if it does not make disturbing humming noises and block the landscape.
u beat me to it!
no subsidy, no turbine
plus, they’ve ruined beautiful West Texas
Ping me when you find an electric generating facility that does not block landscape.
“plus, they’ve ruined beautiful West Texas.”
By all means, if they are building wind turbines on the land you own in beautiful West Texas, you should have them removed.
Otherwise, we might want to let the actual land owners in West Texas to determine how to make their land beautiful.
LOL, ...........I can see you are not into what was once the most beautiful scenery in the US.............in some peoples opinions.
We just made a trtip out West. These things are everywhere. They seem to be not turning a lot of the time. Guess it is the season? Huh?
My wife opined that when the subsidies end they will become tattered eyesores with blades drooping and nacelles ripped apart like in some post apocalyptic scene.
Hawaiian Islands been there already.
Thanks. The coal bed methane of wind.
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