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330 MW of Wind Power Go Online in New York

February 2, 2009 | 7 Comments

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New York State, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] The Altona, Chateaugay and Wethersfield Wind Parks in Upstate New York have been completed, bringing a total of 330 megawatts (MW) of power online for the upstate New York power grid. The projects produce 97.5, 106.5 and 124 MW each respectively.

All three of the Wind Parks utilize the General Electric 1.5SLE wind turbine, which are rated at a capacity of 1.5 MW.

The projects were developed by Noble Environmental Power LLC. Careba Mott MacDonald (CMM) served as the design engineer for all three projects, responsible for electrical and structural engineering of the interconnecting substations, transmission lines, and collector systems.

All three of the Wind Parks utilize the General Electric 1.5SLE wind turbine, which are rated at a capacity of 1.5 MW. The Altona Wind Park is comprised of 65 turbines and 21.1 miles of collector lines, Chateaugay has 71 turbines and 33 miles of collector lines and Wethersfield is the largest wind park with 84 turbines and 60 miles of collector system.

Noble will sell the power from the wind farms into the New York power market. It will also sell renewable energy credits to green energy marketers, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and others.

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r-t-55471

February 2, 2009

"The projects produce 97.5, 106.5 and 124 MW each respectively. " Sometimes, but not often.

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yance-bosen-169015

February 2, 2009

what is the average base load of these farms? The capacity is stated but what is the projected average production?

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dennis-markatos

February 2, 2009

Great news for us in NY!

We just joined the 1 GW wind power club as state #8.

See details at:

www.setenergy.org

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marv-kausch-155664

February 4, 2009

How much average power from 330 MW of wind turbines? The answer comes from the capacity factor of the turbines and the prevailing winds. The national average of new turbine installations is 32%. So for a 330 MW installation, the average power placed on the grid is over 100 MW.

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yajie-qi-163494

February 4, 2009

what's the wind power online price for this project?

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tony-clark-77175

February 5, 2009

Marv,
I've yet to see a wind farm ,new or old average 32% of it's name plate capacity over a year.Because the last year or so the average wind speeds across the continent have been a little higher than normal most new wind farms have been pushing about 27% some a little higher or lower.
Your 32% must have come from the AWEA
The real question is ,how much is dispatchable? most utilities will tell you 10% or less.
Vivian
About 2 million dollars per MW of rated capacity

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carolyn-luce-54460

February 16, 2009

yet to see? Then look.

Per comment 12 of http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2008/09/surpassing-expectations-state-of-the-us-wind-power-market-53498

capacity factor data for a large sample of US wind projects (see Figures 26 and 27, along with Table 7, of http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/EMP/reports/lbnl-275e.pdf

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