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Maine's Wind Resource View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Maine Maine Policy Review Volume 17 Issue 2 Climate Change and Energy 2008 Maine’s Wind Resource: A Source of Energy and Economic Engine Jackson A. Parker Reed and Reed Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr Part of the Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons Recommended Citation Parker, Jackson A. "Maine’s Wind Resource: A Source of Energy and Economic Engine." Maine Policy Review 17.2 (2008) : 101 -104, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol17/iss2/14. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL INITIATIVES: Maine’s Wind Resource FIGURE 1: Wind Power Project Locations Maine’s Wind St. John Valley Resource: Mars Hill A Source of Energy Bridgewater and Economic Engine Oakfield by Jackson A. Parker Stetson II Stetson Ridge Kibby Mountain Rollins INTRODUCTION Passadumkeag Highland Plantation Mountain oday Maine’s abundant, renewable wind resource is generating power and economic growth. T Mount Passamaquoddy Commercial-scale wind power has come to the moun- Record Hill Harris Land tains of Maine in a big way. Proponents tout a clean, Longfellow renewable energy source that will improve air quality Beaver and reduce the impact on the earth’s climate system. Ridge Some know of the economic benefits associated with wind power. Certainly, this source of power responds well to the urgency to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Opponents, however, are most concerned Legend about the changes large turbines bring to scenic land- scapes and worry that there will be significant impacts Operational on noise levels and on wildlife. Project Definition / Permitting As the public continues to discuss the benefits and Under Construction challenges associated with wind power, develope rs are moving forward. The industry is responding to the fact that Maine, due to an abundance of high-elevation terrain, has the most wind potential in New England. ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS Furthermore, Maine is located in a region with a OF WIND POWER IN MAINE growing demand for electricity and has environmen- tally focused policies that make it economically n its short history, the wind power industry in possible to produce renewable power. Table 1 (page IMaine has proven itself to be a model of sustain- 102) describes wind power projects in Maine: nearly able economic growth. Jobs are being created in the 1,200 megawatts (MW) that have been proposed or midst of these difficult economic times because of are in some stage of development. The map (Figure 1) the industry’s long-term investment in homegrown, indicates the location of existing and planned projects. renewable energy. To date, Maine has granted permits View current & previous issues of MPR at: mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/?q=MPR Volume 17, Number 2 · MAINE POLICY REVIEW · 101 NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL INITIATIVES: Maine’s Wind Resource TABLE 1: Current and Proposed Large-Scale Wind Power Projects in Maine Nameplate Equivalent Capacity No. of Homes Name/Location Developer Owner/Operator Project Status (megawatts) Supplied No. Turbines Mars Hill, UPC/First Wind UPC/First Wind Operational 42 MW 19,000 28 Aroostook County Kibby Mountain and TransCanada TransCanada Under 132 MW 50,000 44 Kibby Range, Kibby Construction and Skinner Townships, Franklin County Stetson Ridge, Danforth, First Wind First Wind Operational 57 MW 23,500 38 Washington County Stetson II, T8 R4 First Wind First Wind Project Definition/ 25 MW Unknown 17 Washington County Permitting Beaver Ridge, Freedom, Competitive Competitive Operational 4.5 MW Unknown 3 Waldo County Energy Services Energy Services Various locations, Linekin Bay Energy Aroostook Project Definition/ 500–600 MW Unknown Unknown St. John Valley, and and County Wind Permitting (potential) Bridgewater, Horizon Wind Aroostook County Energy Passadumkeag Mountain, Noble Unknown Project Definition/ Unknown Unknown Unknown Grand Falls Township, Environmental Permitting Penobscot County Power Passamaquoddy land, Disgen Inc., Tribal Unknown Project Definition/ Unknown Unknown Unknown Prentiss Township, Energy Visions LLC Permitting Washington County Record Hill, Roxbury, Independence Unknown Project Definition/ 50 MW Unknown 25 Oxford County Wind Permitting Reddington & Black Maine Mountain n/a Permit Application 90 MW, then n/a 30, then Nubble Mountain, Power Denied by LURC scaled back scaled Franklin County to 54MW back to18 Mount Harris, Dixmont, Competitive Competitive Project Definition/ Unknown Unknown Unknown Penobscot County Energy Services Energy Services Permitting Rollins, First Wind First Wind Project Definition/ 60 MW Unknown Unknown Penobscot County Permitting Oakfield, First Wind First Wind Project Definition/ 49 MW Unknown Unknown Aroostook County Permitting Longfellow Rumford, First Wind First Wind Project Definition/ 40 MW Unknown Unknown Oxford County Permitting Down East First Wind First Wind Project Definition/ 150 MW Unknown Unknown Permitting Maine I First Wind First Wind Project Definition 80 MW Unknown Unknown Permitting/ Highland Plantation, Independence Unknown Project Definition/ Unknown Unknown Unknown Somerset County Wind Permitting Sources: Natural Resources Council of Maine (www.nrcm.org/wind_projects_in_maine.asp); FirstWind (www.firstwind.com/projects/#me); Competitive Energy Services (www.energymaine.com/renewables/index.htm); Dunham (2008). 102 · MAINE POLICY REVIEW · Fall/Winter 2008 View current & previous issues of MPR at: mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/?q=MPR NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL INITIATIVES: Maine’s Wind Resource to four projects totaling more than 200 MW, which THE STATE’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING AND translates into an investment in excess of $500 million. REGULATING WIND POWER These projects are all in rural areas where the need for jobs and new sources of economic growth is the ind power has the potential to change Maine’s greatest. The Governor’s Task Force on Wind Power Weconomic landscape. Yet some worry about its Development estimated that construction wages are impact on our scenic vistas along with the ecological more than $125,000 per installed megawatt. This impact to land where projects are proposed. Policy means that the permitted projects in Maine have already development that had been lagging behind the industry or will soon contribute more than $0 million directly on these issues has begun to catch up in recent months. to the state’s economy in the form of paychecks to Governor Baldacci issued an executive order in construction workers and engineers. Should the task May 2007 establishing the Task Force on Wind Power force’s goal for Maine be realized—to host between Development with three underlying objectives: (1) to 2,000 and ,000 MW of wind by 2020—this total make Maine a leader in wind power development; (2) could rise to as much as $450 million in construc- to protect Maine’s quality of place and natural tion wages (Governor’s Task Force on Wind Power resources; and () to maximize the tangible benefits Development 2008: 1). And in addition to the wages Maine people receive from wind power development. and benefits paid to craft workers, these projects are The task force’s final report provided recommen- managed by some of Maine’s finest engineers, many of dations in February 2008, which the legislature largely whom are University of Maine graduates, putting their enacted into law in April. The official goals are to skills to work without having to leave the state. reach 2,000 MW of installed wind power by 2015 During construction, the economic impact extends and ,000 MW by 2020 with at least 00 MW to be to numerous Maine companies that provide services developed in coastal waters. Industry now has a clear and equipment. The economic ripple effect reaches to path to follow with a streamlined regulatory approach every corner of Maine as these funds circulate in our to permitting that was also enacted, which will be local economies instead of being sent overseas to pay helpful in reaching these ambitious goals. For instance, for imported fuels. wind power has become a permitted use in the fringe In addition to the jobs and services, billions of areas of Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission dollars of capital investment will come with an eight- (LURC) jurisdiction. The Maine Department of to twelve-fold increase in permitted wind power proj- Environmental Protection (DEP) can now assume sole ects. Such investment will translate into more than $25 regulatory authority over any project that is even partly million in annual property tax revenues to local in its jurisdiction (including transmission lines, which communities and Maine’s Unorganized Territory Fund. typically terminate in an organized community). The Tax increment financing arrangements have already and legislation also limits the review period to 185 days for may continue to shift some of these revenues into local projects within the new expedited zone, which economic development projects that will attract addi- includes all organized communities and much of the tional investment and create new jobs. fringe areas of the unorganized townships. Other economic benefits are more difficult to Additionally, the major issues raised by the quantify. Turbine component manufacturing and other concerned public have been identified and are being spin-offs related to grid-scale energy storage have the addressed through this legislation
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