Hull Wind I

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Hull Wind I
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Hull Wind I
Presentation on the first Urban sited, Industrial
sized Wind Turbine in the United States

• Brief overview of wind power in the U.S.
• Hulls success
• Future projects
• Awards
• Questions

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Why Wind?

• Development of just 10 of the wind potential in
  the 10 windiest U.S. states would
• Provide more than enough energy to displace
  emissions from the nation's coal-fired power
  plants.
• Eliminate
• the nation's major source of acid rain
• reduce total U.S. emissions of CO2 by almost a
  third
• and help contain the spread of asthma and other
  respiratory diseases aggravated or caused by air
  pollution in this country.
• American Wind Energy Association

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Top 10 States for wind

• 1. North Dakota 1,210 Billion kWh/yr
• 2. Texas 1,190
• 3. Kansas 1,070
• 4. South Dakota 1,030
• 5. Montana 1,020
• 6. Nebraska 868
• 7. Wyoming 747
• 8. Oklahoma 725
• 9. Minnesota 657
• 10. Iowa 551

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Wind power in Hull, MA

• Wind used as far back as 1820 by Henry Tudor who
  pumped seawater into wooden vats, allowed it to
  freeze and harvested the salt

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Wind Works

• In 2004, the AWEA estimated that wind plants in
  the U.S. generated 16 billion kilowatt-hours.
• If instead, the average utility fuel mix were
  used to generate that much electricity,
• 10.6 million tons of CO2
• 56,000 tons of sulfur dioxide
• 33,000 tons of nitrogen oxides
• would be released into the atmosphere.
• American Wind Energy Association

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How much energy can wind supply to the U.S.?

• Wind energy could supply about 20 of the
  nation's electricity.
• Wind energy resources useful for generating
  electricity can be found in nearly every state.
• North Dakota is theoretically capable (if there
  were enough transmission) of producing enough
  wind-generated power to meet more than one-third
  of U.S. electricity demand.

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C.A.R.E. group started

• Small group of concerned citizens start Citizen
  Advocates for Renewable Energy in 1998
• A study of repowering wind turbine site at Hull
  High School
• Presented to Town Selectmen
• Public forum in June 2000 added strong support
• Spring 2005 I-CARE formed in Ipswich after public
  meeting there with CARE speakers

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Vestas V-47 Turbine

• Danish manufacturer Vestas was selected
• V-47 machine 660 kW 700,000.00
• 50 m tower 75 blades 28.5 rpm

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Production to date

• Commissioned on December 27, 2001
• 1293 days of generation 20710 hrs (net)
• 5,502,674 kWhs

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It looks like this from the air
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Happy campers ribbon cutting June 29, 2002
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Who is next?

• Ipswich (2006 ?)
• Mattapoisett
• Hingham (2006 ?)
• Yarmouth
• Orleans
• Princeton (2006 ?)
• Name of your town here

• Buzzards Bay (2006 ?)
• Bourne
• Marblehead
• Provincetown
• Quincy
• Dorchester (yes ! 2005)

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Awards

• Congressional Recognition
• EPA Environmental Merit
• DOE Award
• Clean Air Cool Planet
• Mass Municipal Association
  
  2003
• AWEA Utility Leadership

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Where is Hull
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Hull Wind II comes next

• The town of Hull voted (Oct 2004) to install 1
  more turbine on land.
• Sited at the town dump, a capped landfill. First
  of this landfill siting in the U.S.
• Vestas V80 1.8 MW machine selected.
• Installation could begin by end of summer.
• 2.7 X the output of Hull Wind I

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1984-1996

• Hull installed a 40 kW Enertech machine
• 78,000.00
• Saved the town over 70,000.00 in electricity
• Decommissioned in 1996

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Hole for the foundation is dug
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Forms are set
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More forms.
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Delivery of the nacelle
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Crane lifts tower.
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Financials

• Turbine cost 700,000.00
• Over 20 years 35,000.00
• Maintenance/Warranty 8,000.00
• Insurance 8,000.00
• Total Year Fixed price 51,000.00
• 51,000.00 / 1,500,000 kWhs 0.034
• 3.4 cents / kWh

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Financials

• Credits
• RECs 0.030/kWh
• REPIs 0.018/kWh
• 0.048/kWh

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Financials

• Hull generates revenue from the turbine
• 0.048/kWh - 0.034/kWh 0.014/kWh
• Annual Savings
• 1,500,000 kWhs X 0.08/kWh 120,000.00
• 1,500,000 kWhs X 0.014/kWh 21,000.00
• OVER 140,000.00 savings per year over 20 years
  or over 3,000,000.00 for the town.

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Additional incentives

• Federal Level
• PTC Production Tax Credit
• or
• REPI Renewable Energy Production Incentive
• 1.5 cents/kWh adjusted to 1.8 cents

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Additional incentives

• Green Certificates or RECs price varies
• MassEnergy purchases RECs from Hull at 3 cents
  kWh or 30.00 MWh.

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Awards

• EPA Environmental Merit
• DOE Award

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Awards

• Clean Air Cool Planet 2003 Climate Champions
  Award 2003
• Mass Municipal Association 2003 Utility
  Leadership Award

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MIT Professor John Deutch

• Many experts believe that nonrenewable fuels, in
  particular oil and gas, will eventually become so
  scarce and therefore so expensive that they will
  no longer be practical largescale energy sources.
  Moreover, the use of coal and other fossil fuels
  imposes major enevironmental burdens. Therefore
  it is prudent to develop energy techologies based
  on renewable energy sources and introduce them
  commercially if and when the become economically
  competitive.

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Steps to your own wind turbine

• Local Champions
• Select a site, preferably on town owned land
• Near transmission lines - clearings, ridges, away
  from structures
• Commission a wind study, usually 1 year.
• Work with town officials
• Identify a utility load that can be offset

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