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.
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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
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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.
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.
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.
I heard that with out tax credits they would not exist.
I also heard they are filled with copper wire.
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.
Deflation ping
“Geronimo”?
The PCLU let them get away with that?
FERC to the rescue! They will make some company buy it at their avoided cost.
I wish I was making this up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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