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Hull Wind

Hull Wind. A Community Gets Green. Financing Wind Power : The Future of Energy May 9, 2008 Andrew Stern www.hullwind.org. Hull MA – Coastal community of 10,000. Hull wind project started in 1997.  Windmill Point Hull, Massachusetts.  Use of wind energy dating to 1820.

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Hull Wind

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  1. Hull Wind A Community Gets Green Financing Wind Power : The Future of Energy May 9, 2008Andrew Sternwww.hullwind.org

  2. Hull MA – Coastal community of 10,000

  3. Hull wind project started in 1997  Windmill PointHull, Massachusetts Use of wind energy dating to 1820 40 kW installed at Hull H.S 1984-1996 CARE – Citizen Advocates for Renewable Energy

  4. Hull 1 - 660 kW – Dec 27, 2001 • 1,500 MWh/year • 9844 MWh April ’08 • 27.02% CF • Equivalent to 250 home’s usage • ~ 3% of Hull • Annually Offsets: • 1,200 tons CO2 • 7 tons SO2 • 5 tons NOx

  5. Hull 1 - 660 kW – Dec 27, 2001 • Cost: $780,000.00 • Town Paid Cash • Municipal Light Plant • Previous wind experience • Paid for itself in under 5 yrs through energy costs saved and incentives • Incentives • Federal REPI • ~ 1.9 ¢/kWh • Voluntary mkt RECs • ~ 3.0 ¢/kWh

  6. Hull Wind 1 – Google Earth

  7. Hull Wind 1 – from an airplane

  8. Hull Wind 2

  9. Hull Wind 2 – Vestas V80 1.8MW • $3,000,000 to install 20m atop a landfill • Foundation cost: $750K • Hull and Harvard U. ink 10-year REC deal • 42,000 MWh RECs = $1,500,000

  10. Hull Wind 2– constructed 2006 • 4,200 MWh/year – 7,337 MWh April ’08 23.95 % CF • Hull 2 commissioned in May 2006 • 95% approval of the residents of Hull, MA

  11. Hull Wind 1 and Hull Wind 2 contribute over 11% of Hull’s entire electric load ! Hull 2 Hull 1 Hull plans on 4 off shore turbines for approx 100% of entire town load ~ 2009.

  12. Hull Wind 3, 4, 5, 6 off shore = 100% Presently under development

  13. Hull has won several awards AWEAEPAMass Municipal Assoc.Mass Congressional AwardClean Air – Cool PlanetDOE

  14. Several items in regional news • Maine commission to weigh 2 wind-power projects- Federal report favorable on Cape Wind- Chelsea MA installs turbine • Jiminy Peak 1.5MW S.E.D. • Princeton (2 - 1.5MW) and Fairhaven (2 - 1.65MW) • Quincy, Cohasset, Scituate, Ipswich predev

  15. Cape Wind comments extended

  16. Hull ~ A Community Gets Greenwww.hullwind.org andrew@hullwind.org malcolm.brown@comcast.net

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