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Will New York's Volume 14, Number 5 ■ June 2017 Will New York’s Renewables Plan Work? Can the state power through its myriad issues while increasing wind and solar? page 18 Project Profile EDP Renewables adds to its New York wind portfolio. page 22 Energy Assessment Is it time for the wind industry to rethink some common terms? page 24 a_01_NAW1706.indd 1 5/18/17 11:52 AM _Suzlon_1703.indd 1 2/13/17 5:27 PM Contents Features 1 16 Lighting Considerations During Wind Farm Development Federal guidelines underscore the importance of adhering to obstruction lighting requirements. Spotlight 18 New York’s 50% Clean Energy Standard: Making It Real There are a variety of moving parts in the evolution of New York’s clean energy mandate. Project Profile 22 EDP Renewables Adds To New York Portfolio The developer’s latest New York project is online and operational. 24 Seeking A Better Understanding For Uncertainty Does the wind industry need to rethink some common energy assessment terms? 16 22 Departments 18 4 Wind Bearings 6 New & Noteworthy 12 Projects & Contracts 28 Products & Technology 31 Policy Watch 34 Viewpoint On the cover: The 322 MW Maple Ridge Wind Farm, a joint venture between EDP Renewables North America and Avangrid Renewables. The wind farm, lo- cated about 75 miles northeast of Syracuse, is situated in the towns of Lowville, Martinsburg, Harrisburg and Watson in Lewis County, N.Y. Photo cour- tesy of EDP Renewables North America North American Windpower • June 2017 • 3 d_TOC_NAW_1706.indd 3 5/18/17 3:59 PM Wind Bearings www.nawindpower.com [email protected] 100 Willenbrock Road, Oxford, CT 06478 Not Buying Toll Free: (800) 325-6745 Into This Phone: (203) 262-4670 Fax: (203) 262-4680 MICHAEL BATES Publisher & Vice President New York Story [email protected] Mark Del Franco MARK DEL FRANCO Associate Publisher (203) 262-4670, ext. 283 [email protected] his month’s cover story focuses on New York’s effort to increase its renewable portfolio standard to 50% renewables by 2030. The article, BETSY LILLIAN JOSEPH BEBON Associate Editors Twritten by Anne Reynolds, executive director at the Alliance for Clean LAUREN TYLER Energy New York, nicely lays out New York’s challenges if it is to meet the ambi- tious renewables mandate. AMANDA FAVA Editorial Assistant On the surface, it all appears positive. A top wind state is redoubling its DAWN S. HOWE Creative Director efforts to develop more electricity emanating from terrestrial-based wind, as well as offshore wind. However, because New York is the subject, any enthusi- ANGEL L. HERNÁNDEZ Graphic Artist asm generated by the announcement must be tamped down. SANDRA MINCK Production Coordinator Why? Well, any wind developer will tell you that developing in New York is not for the faint of heart. For starters, its environmental reviews are the most CHERYL SAMIDE Office Manager comprehensive and stringent anywhere this side of California. Then, in 2011, the state brought back Article X, which was supposed to create a one-stop DAMASE CARON Information Systems Manager shop for permitting and shorten the length of time for projects to be signed off. Yet, here we are, six years later, and there has only been one wind project Advertising Sales (Everpower Wind Holdings’ Cas- Mark Del Franco sadaga Wind) that has completed Empire State [email protected] a full application. That’s right - the (800) 325-6745, ext. 283 development is not project still needs formal approval. for the faint of heart. Further complicating matters is the New York Independent Sys- Z ACKIN tem Operator’s (NYISO) class year PUBLICATIONS process, a system impact study that determines the network upgrades needed PAUL ZACKIN President under the generator’s interconnection agreement. But instead of simplifying [email protected] the process, the NYISO may have made the process harder, as indicated by a dizzying 35-step process found on its website. Member of As Reynolds writes, “There are some signs that the market is responding to Gov. Cuomo’s 50 percent renewable pledge. The New York Independent System Operator queue now shows a total of 36 wind proposals (totaling more than 4.9 GW) and 40 solar projects (totaling 920 MW).” That’s good news, right? Perhaps, but what evidence has New York pro- vided to make me believe that it has fixed all of its issues? Wind developers are North American Windpower (USPS: 024-604 still grappling with the state’s thorny permitting and interconnection regimes. ISSN: 1939-0947) is published monthly by Zackin In short, although the state’s efforts are laudable, I’m not buying into it. Publications, Inc. Advertising, Editorial, Production and Circulation offices are at 100 Willenbrock Road, Wind developers need New York’s actions to keep pace with the rhetoric. Oxford, CT 06478; (203) 262-4670. Periodical postage Despite its best intentions to keep pace with the likes of California, New York paid at Shelton, CT and additional mailing offices. wind development will always remain a slog. w Canada Post: Publications Mail Agreement #40612608. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to IMEX Global Solutions, P.O. Box 25542, London, ON N6C 6B2. Subscription: $48 per year. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: North American Windpower, Send your news items to 100 Willenbrock Road, Oxford, CT 06478. Copyright [email protected] © 2017 by Zackin Publications, Inc. All rights reserved; no reproduction without written permission from the publisher. 4 • June 2017 • North American Windpower b_NAW1706_2_15.32_36.indd 4 5/18/17 12:15 PM © 2017 BP Lubricants USA Inc. _Castrol_1706.indd 1 5/16/17 4:54 PM New&Noteworthy U.S. Wind Industry Boasts Strongest Start In Years ith the installation of 908 utility-scale turbines in going forward. We’re just adding another locally grown crop to the first quarter of 2017, the U.S. wind industry is our fields, with very little ground taken out of production, and Wboasting its strongest start in eight years, according the improved roads really help with access. So it’s a great fit to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) U.S. Wind here.” Industry First Quarter 2017 Market Report. AWEA notes that expanding wind farms continue to benefit New wind turbine installations in the first quarter totaled rural America, considering over 99% of wind projects are built 2 GW of capacity and spanned the U.S. – from Rhode Island in rural communities. According to AWEA’s recently released and North Carolina to Oregon and Hawaii. Great Plains states 2016 Annual Market Report, wind now pays over $245 million Texas (724 MW) and Kansas (481 MW) led the pack, says per year in land-lease payments to local landowners – many of AWEA. them being farmers and ranchers. According to AWEA, the early burst of activity reflects how Further, American wind manufacturing facilities remained 500 factories in America’s wind power supply chain and over busy in the first quarter. With 4,466 MW in new construction 100,000 wind workers are putting stable, multiyear federal and advanced development announcements recorded in the policy to work: The industry is now in year three of a five-year first quarter, the near-term pipeline has reached 20,977 MW phase-down of the production tax credit. of wind capacity; that’s about as much as the entire Texas wind The report says Texas continues as the overall national fleet’s existing capacity, AWEA points out. leader for wind power capacity with 21 GW installed – which Additionally, demand remained strong in the first quarter, is enough to power more than 5 million average homes. the report says. There was 1,781 MW of wind power signed in Notably, North Carolina became the 41st state to harness long-term contracts, representing the most in a first quarter wind power when it brought online the first wind farm to be since 2013. Utilities and Fortune 500 companies frequently built in the Southeast in 12 years: Avangrid Renewables’ Ama- sign these power purchase agreements (PPAs), and in the first zon Wind Farm US East. quarter, Home Depot and Intuit – the maker of TurboTax – Horace Pritchard, one of nearly 60 landowners associated joined a host of Fortune 500 companies, such as GM, Walmart with the North Carolina project, explains what it means to and Microsoft, that purchase wind power. him and his neighbors: AWEA says wind is also supplying a growing number of “Farms have been growing corn, soybeans and wheat for cities, universities and other organizations, including the U.S. a long time here, and the wind farm revenue means a lot of Department of Defense. Notably, in the first quarter, a Texas families are protected from pricing swings, floods or droughts wind farm came online to supply a PPA with the U.S. Army. 6 • June 2017 • North American Windpower b_NAW1706_2_15.32_36.indd 6 5/18/17 12:17 PM Got Grid Issues? Is your plant connected to a weak part of the grid? Are you connecting near series capacitors? Are there other renewable connections, HVDC ties, or complex devices nearby? SpecialistsAre you inconcerned Power about System harmonics? Studies Will your project ride through a fault? Electranix is a small independent consultancy We can also help with… • Interfacing with manufacturers and utilities based in Winnipeg, Canada. 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