| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/10/08, 11:54 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — A co-owner of a Vermont mountaintop wind power project is complaining
that his turbines were ordered to stop sending electricity to the grid in favor of power produced by fossil fuel and nuclear plants.
In a letter written Monday to the head of regional grid operator ISO NewEngland, David Blittersdorf said the decision to "curtail" power from his four-turbine Georgia Community Wind project and other Vermont wind farms was "counter to common sense and simply unsustainable.
"He sent ISO New England a bill for the $5,490 Georgia Wind lost by not being able to sell power during the six-hour shutdown."It is our firm belief that renewable generation should be considered 'must take' generation sources," said the letter to ISO New England President
Gordon van Welie. "Otherwise, as happened Sunday night and early Monday
morning this week, finite fossil fuel sources are burned at a time when forever-lost wind energy is forced to shut down."
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