“I said, ‘Take a look around, hang out as long as you want and see if you want to live here.’ ”
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Here’s the Bent Tree project – click for larger version:
Carol A. Overland, Overland Law Office — Utility Regulatory and Land Use Advocacy
They’re recycling, and not in a good way. Why is the STrib facilitating this? Remember this from October?
Center of the American Experiment – Conflatulence!!
Here we go again, this time in the STrib:
The two primary false arguments:
1) Wind is driving up ratepayer cost (it’s not, it’s the return on capital expenditures).
2) Clean Power Plan and renewable mandates aren’t lowering CO2 and are driving up rates (CPP and mandates only increase “renewables” and don’t cut CO2 production, it’s a percentage change, and using least cost generation. Only reduction in burning will lower production of CO2).
3) High cost of electricity in Minnesota is connected to wind policies (When compared historically higher cost states like Illinois, yes, Minnesota’s rates are high, but it isn’t related to wind costs, wind is a least cost resource. It IS related to the shift of electricity from serving a franchise area to a market based system, and the market has spoken. When electricity can be sold for more, and where utilities have transmission build-out from any Point A to any Point B, they will sell to highest bidder. Higher priced markets will line up to buy our lower cost electricity and utilities will line up to sell it elsewhere rather than sell it for less to us, and we will have to pay the higher price to get electricity here. That’s how a market works, Econ 1001. With wholesale market deregulated, and transmission lines built, we’ve got defacto deregulation.).
And a minor but very obvious false statement:
And the shortfall in summer wind production is being backstopped primarily by coal-fired electricity.
Coal runs constantly, as does nuclear, well almost, capacity factor of 80+. But it’s natural gas, with its near-immediate ramping up that backs up wind, if generation is needed. DOH! Coal can’t get it up on command.
Why is the STrib printing this crap that is so patently false?
Here’s a good wallpaper to keep running, the MISO LMP map.
Check MISO’s real time LMP prices HERE!
See how Chicago area is cut out? That’s because it’s in PJM.
Check PJM’s real time LMP prices HERE!
Here’s what I’ve been able to find about MISO J407, the number provided by Xcel Energy in their 16-777 Resource Acquisition docket that included the Freeborn Wind project:
And from Xcel’s Petition on interconnection (click for larger version):
And here’s what I could find from MISO:
miso-february-2015-initial-posting
20170117 IPTF Item 01f DPP Updates
There ya have it!
Here it is:
17-410+Comments & Draft Site Permit
Now, get to work reading and doing a thorough mark-up!
Yes, Minnesota, impacts of wind turbines are real, and you’re going to have to deal with it.
“I want quiet and dark nights, not the noise and red flashing lights on top of wind towers,” she said. “We did not choose to live out here to be next to an industrial park.”
Here’s the proposal for Freeborn Wind with sound modeling (See Figure 6 Application, Siting_Initial Filng_Figures1-17_20176-132804-02), and consider, Minnesota standards for setbacks are that it much comply with MPCA noise standard PLUS 500 feet — the 500 feet is not built into this map (click for larger version):
Shadow flicker? Commerce admits in its Comments that there are homes affected beyond what is allowed by county ordinance (See Figure 8 Application, Siting_Initial Filng_Figures1-17_20176-132804-02) (click for larger version):
“I said, ‘Take a look around, hang out as long as you want and see if you want to live here.’ ”
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Here’s the Bent Tree project – click for larger version:
This Thursday, the Xcel Energy Petition to slash the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center Power Purchase Agreement. It’s a pretty twisted thing…
Read all about it — check out the Public Utilities Commission docket:
Click “Search Documents” HERE and search for docket 17-532
Here are the Staff Briefing Papers_201711-137262-01
For example, Commerce noted that the power wasn’t needed:
And the PUC staff seems to have heard this, which notes the capacity surplus in the Briefing Papers above:
Followed by this:
Ummmmmmmm, it’s both!
And it gets curiouser and curiouser… Again from the Briefing Papers:
And some validation of concerns raised:
So what will the Commission do? It seems their knickers are in a bunch and it’s not at all clear…
Here’s the Neighbors for Clean Air page for HERC:
And check out Alan Muller’s powerpoint from the successful challenge to attempt to increase garbage burning:
There was an announcement in April, 2016, of the “HERC Clean Power Plan Coalition” with multiple groups joining to shut down HERC! Sierra Club North Star Chapter, MPIRG, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, Community Power, St. Joan of Arc, etc.
HERC? SHUT IT DOWN!