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Hull Wind A Community Gets Green Financing Wind Power : The Future of Energy May 9, 2008 Andrew Stern www.hullwind.org
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Hull MA – Coastal community of 10,000
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Hull wind project started in 1997 CARE – Citizen Advocates for Renewable Energy 40 kW installed at Hull H.S 1984-1996 Use of wind energy dating to 1820 Windmill Point Hull, Massachusetts
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Hull 1 - 660 kW – Dec 27, 2001 1,500 MWh/year 9844 MWh April ’08 27.02% CF Equivalent to 250 home’s usage ~ 3% of Hull Annually Offsets: 1,200 tons CO2 7 tons SO2 5 tons NOx
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Hull 1 - 660 kW – Dec 27, 2001 Cost: $780,000.00 Town Paid Cash Municipal Light Plant Previous wind experience Paid for itself in under 5 yrs through energy costs saved and incentives Incentives Federal REPI ~ 1.9 ¢ /kWh Voluntary mkt RECs ~ 3.0 ¢ /kWh
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Hull Wind 1 – Google Earth
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Hull Wind 1 – from an airplane
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Hull Wind 2
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Hull Wind 2 – Vestas V80 1.8MW $3,000,000 to install 20m atop a landfill Foundation cost: $750K Hull and Harvard U. ink 10-year REC deal 42,000 MWh RECs = $1,500,000
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Hull Wind 2– constructed 2006 4,200 MWh/year – 7,337 MWh April ’08 23.95 % CF 95% approval of the residents of Hull, MA Hull 2 commissioned in May 2006
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Hull Wind 1 and Hull Wind 2 contribute over 11% of Hull’s entire electric load ! Hull plans on 4 off shore turbines for approx 100% of entire town load ~ 2009. Hull 1 Hull 2
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Hull Wind 3, 4, 5, 6 off shore = 100% Presently under development
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AWEA EPA Mass Municipal Assoc. Mass Congressional Award Clean Air – Cool Planet DOE Hull has won several awards
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- Maine commission to weigh 2 wind-power projects - Federal report favorable on Cape Wind - Chelsea MA installs turbine - Jiminy Peak 1.5MW S.E.D. - Princeton (2 - 1.5MW) and Fairhaven (2 - 1.65MW) - Quincy, Cohasset, Scituate, Ipswich predev Several items in regional news
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Cape Wind comments extended
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andrew@hullwind.org malcolm.brown@comcast.net Hull ~ A Community Gets Green www.hullwind.org
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