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Why wind? What is the proposal? Who will benefit? What are the costs?

Why wind? What is the proposal? Who will benefit? What are the costs? How does it compare to the High School wind turbine? What happens next? How do I learn more?. Why wind? Long history of wind use on the island One of the windiest spots onshore in New England Island economics.

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Why wind? What is the proposal? Who will benefit? What are the costs?

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  1. Why wind? What is the proposal? Who will benefit? What are the costs? How does it compare to the High School wind turbine? What happens next? How do I learn more?

  2. Why wind? • Long history of wind use on the island • One of the windiest spots onshore in New England • Island economics

  3. What’s the proposal? • The turbines: 2 x 900-kW • The owner: the Town of Nantucket • The site: disturbed land at the landfill in Madaket

  4. The site

  5. Site features • Disturbed Town-owned land used for waste disposal for over 50 years • Significant setbacks from residents • Not a priority resource or habitat area • Outside the flight path

  6. Site plan showing setbacks

  7. Who will benefit? • The Town: lower electric bills at the Composter (where the Town pays the bills) and at other Town buildings (net metering) • The residents: reduce need for tax revenue • Everyone: • Defer the third electric cable from the mainland • Make electricity without fossil fuels or emissions

  8. What are the costs? • All-in costs under 10 c/kWh • About half the cost of Cape Wind • Average savings of $400,000/ year after payment of all O&M costs and debt service • Payback starts from Year 1 • $390,000 grant from MassCEC

  9. Savings rise with electricity prices • How high do YOU think electricity prices will go?

  10. How does it compare to the turbine at the High School ? • Taller: 320 feet high vs. 156 feet high • Farther from neighbors: >1400 feet vs. 290 feet • More powerful: 2x900 kW each vs. 100 kW • Lower rpm: will seem to turn more slowly

  11. What happens next? Reviews by Town boards • Board of Selectmen – TM recommendation • Finance Committee – TM recommendation • Planning Board – Warrant article recommendation • Capital Program Committee • Historic District Commission – Visual impacts • Conservation Commission (electric cable from radio tower site) – resource area impacts

  12. What happens next? Town Meeting warrant articles on April 4 • Article 44: authorize land use for wind energy • Article 45: authorize borrowing (suspended until 2012 ATM) • Article 46: create overlay district and site plan review process

  13. Bird counter What happens next? Reviews by state and federal agencies • Mass DEP solid waste facility permit • Mass Historical Commission • US and Mass Fish & Wildlife Services (underway) • FAA and Mass Aeronautical Commission • National Grid electrical interconnection

  14. What happens next? Procure turbine/complete detailed design • Minor site plan review by the Planning Board • Pre-borrowing review by the Finance Committee • Final review by the Selectmen • Special election for a debt exclusion Purchase, construct, commission, test, operate, Reduce Town electricity costs by FY2013

  15. How do I learn more? • Ask questions • Come to public presentations • Check the website at http://www.ackenergy.org/WindStudies.html • Contact Selectman WhiteyWillauer • whitey@willauer.com • 508/228-1277 or 703/298-0082

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