Second Long Island wind energy project proposed (300 MW)

[jpak]

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzleft0130,0,635566.story

A Hauppauge company is proposing its second wind energy project south of Long Island, this one to serve Nassau and Suffolk electricity customers instead of those in the city.

Winergy Power president Dennis Quaranta said Tuesday his company applied for approval of the $600 million to $700 million plan Jan. 16 from the nonprofit New York Independent System Operator, which coordinates electric power generation and transmission.

The plan is for 86 wind turbines with a peak output of 300 megawatts. "As well as New York City, Long Island needs clean reliable energy," he said. "It's just a matter of going out and getting it."

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The proposed location, Quaranta said, is about 15 miles east of the 167 turbine, 600 megawatt project that Winergy proposed in November for a site 15- to 18 miles south of Jones Beach to feed electricty into the Con Edison grid.

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[NNadir]

1. Almost all of Long Island's "renewable" energy is garbage.

Literally.

In fact, trash burning easily outstrips wind power throughout the United States but Long Island is a special case.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/mswaste/msw.html

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/table1.html

I remember taking my car to the North Shore beaches in Huntington Township and having the paint be dissolved by "renewable" energy ash spewing out of the Huntington incinerator.

Now of course, one could spend some time trashing the trash of the "renewables will save us" crowd by noting yet again, they have not learned the difference between power and energy. That said, the breezes off the coast of Southern Long Island - as anyone who has washed the trash wash up in the surf can attest - are rather regular. I would not be surprised to learn that a wind plant off of Long Island might reach the unheard of capacity utilization of 30%, making a 300 mega"watt" wind plant the equivalent of a 90 MW garbage burning plant.

But unless Robert F. Kennedy moves to Long Island, the wind power - depending on how spinning reserve is managed - may eliminate some of the dangerous fossil fuel burning on which Long Island depends because dumb fundie anti-nukes opposed Shoreham.

Actually, the Southern portion of Long Island - where I still have family living - is likely to be submerged which is ironic in a sense since the dumb fundie anti-nuke movement was intially funded by rich yuppie brats in Lloyd's Neck, concerned that LILCO might have the audacity to build a power plant among their estates.

Oh, well, as always, ignorance KILLS.