The horrible realities of wind power in Maine
Maine anti-wind claims address the limits of needing to put turbines along mountain ridges. This statement does not point out that even 1000 MWe of wind power would only produce about one-third of the power produced by the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant. Maine Yankee should still be operating (at about 90% capacity factor) if it had been effectively managed and/or purchased, instead of the short-sighted “decision” to dismantle it.
Maine, and New England, do not have the wind, nor solar, sources to meet future energy needs, even while letting its industrial capacity continue to decline. New England will eventually have to face the fact that they need to build the Generation III+, or even Generation IV, nuclear power plants. But will this be too little, too late, for the New England economy?
Filed under: Critics, Energy, Environment, Wind Power | Tagged: Maine, mountain ridge
