HALLOWELL — A deal to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into construction of wind energy projects in Maine and across the Northeast has been approved by Maine’s utility regulators. Tuesday’s vote by the Public Utilities Commission was the second time the agency approved the deal to create a joint venture owned by First Wind […]
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First Wind tries again to gain regulators’ approval for wind farm partnership with Emera
HALLOWELL — Boston-based First Wind is pushing Maine utilities regulators to approve for a second time its multimillion-dollar partnership with Nova Scotia-based power company Emera, in a case that was sent back to the Maine Public Utilities Commission by a court order. Opponents of the joint venture have argued it violates the state’s electricity deregulation […]
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First Wind secures financing for wind project
OAKFIELD (AP) — Maine’s largest wind power developer says it has secured finances for a $400 million project in Aroostook County. First Wind says the Oakfield project is expected to produce 148 megawatts of renewable energy, or enough for about 50,000 homes. It says construction, which is anticipated to support 300 jobs, is on schedule. […]
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Appeals board delays likely rejection of $100M Bowers Mountain wind project
AUGUSTA — An appeals board delayed issuing a formal decision Thursday that could decide the fate of a $100 million wind-to-energy facility proposed for Bowers Mountain. However, it said a denial of the project is likely to be upheld. The Board of Environmental Protection voted 4-1 during a daylong meeting at the Augusta Civic Center […]
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Oakfield gets $600,000 payment as part of First Wind deal
OAKFIELD — A Maine town has received the first of payments that will amount to millions of dollars from an agreement with a renewable energy company. First Wind said Tuesday that it has paid the town of Oakfield $600,000 as part of an agreement to build its wind power project there. The payment is the first […]
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First Wind to sell electricity to Massachusetts utility
First Wind on Friday signed an agreement to sell the majority of the electricity it plans to generate at its Hancock Wind project near Ellsworth to an electric utility in Massachusetts. Boston-based First Wind, which operates five wind farms in Maine, will sell 75 percent of Hancock Wind’s future electricity output to the Massachusetts Municipal […]
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J. Lord: Needs of local communities
After reading Jonathan Carter’s rant about a wind power project (Aug. 11), it seems like some folks have the luxury of pontification while the rest of us are left to figure out how to prevent rural Maine communities from becoming ghost towns. Rural towns such as Bingham are mere shadows of what they once were. […]
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D. Fowler: First Wind is doing it right
A recent opinion piece by Jonathan Carter (Aug. 11) in the Sun Journal got things very wrong on wind power, First Wind and the proposed Bingham project. Despite its gross factual inaccuracies, the column failed to point out that wind power has meant a great deal to Maine communities, businesses and families over the past […]
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Jonathan Carter: First Wind willing to trash Maine
First Wind of Boston is proposing the largest industrial wind project to date for Maine’s western mountains. It will stretch more than 25 miles, from Bingham to Parkman. The 64 500-foot turbines First Wind plans for that remote stretch of the Maine Woods will be highly intrusive and visible to large sections of the Appalachian […]