In a statement made last Friday by EDF Energies Nouvelles (French Green Power Company), a power purchase agreement was terminated without explanation by Indianapolis Power and Light Company regarding the supply of wind energy by enXco, a local EDF company. The contract was unilaterally terminated by IPL, and more than 10 days later, EDF has acknowledged it to the market.
The IPL wind power project web page is here
From the press release see here
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PRESS RELEASE
March 12th, 2010
Termination of the Lakefield PPA by IPL
On March 1, enXco, the US subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, received notification that the US utility Indianapolis Power and Light Company (IPL) would terminate the power purchase agreement related to the 201 MW Lakefield wind project currently under development (southwestern Minnesota).
The project received the approval of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) on January 27, 2010. The IURC’s order was consistent with similar past orders. IPL has purported to unilaterally terminate the power purchase agreement on the basis of this order without providing further specific reasons.
enXco is considering its rights and remedies within the framework of the PPA. In addition, the Company is currently analyzing several options, including re-marketing the project to one or several other utilities.
Consistent with EDF Energies Nouvelles policy, construction has not yet started.
The 2012 operational objective of 4,200 MW net and 2010 objective of EBITDA will not be impacted by the Lakefield project evolution.
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big h/t to Ecotretas
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PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
Paris, March 12, 2010 Paris, March 12, 2010
Termination of the PPA by Lakefield IPL Termination of the Lakefield PPA by IPL
On March 1, enXco, the U.S. subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, received On March 1, enXco, the US subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, received
notification that the U.S. utility Indianapolis Power and Light Company (IPL) notification that the US utility Indianapolis Power and Light Company (IPL)
would terminate the power purchase agreement related to the 201 MW would terminate the power purchase agreement related to the 201 MW
Lakefield wind project currently under development (southwestern Lakefield wind project currently under development (southwestern
Minnesota). Minnesota).
The project received the approval of the Indiana Utility Regulatory The project received the approval of the Indiana Utility Regulatory
Commission (iurc) on January 27, 2010. Commission (IURC) on January 27, 2010. The iurc’s order was consistent The IURC’s order was consistent
with similar past orders. with similar past orders. IPL has purported to unilaterally terminate the IPL has purported to unilaterally terminate the
power purchase agreement on the basis of this order without providing power purchase agreement on the basis of this order without providing
further specific reasons. further specific reasons.
enXco is considering its rights and remedies within the framework of the enXco is considering its rights and remedies within the framework of the
PPA. PPA. In addition, the Company is currently analyzing several options, In addition, the Company is currently analyzing several options,
including re-marketing the project to one or several other utilities. including re-marketing the project to one or several other utilities.
Consistent with EDF Energies Nouvelles policy, construction has not yet Consistent with EDF Energies Nouvelles policy, construction has not yet
started. started.
The 2012 operational objective of 4.200 MW and 2010 net objective of The 2012 operational objective of 4,200 MW net and 2010 objective of
EBITDA will not be impacted by the project Lakefield evolution. EBITDA will not be impacted by the Lakefield project evolution.
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Scrub my previous.
My brain is befuddled.
The wind turbine obviously has to be at the TOP of the hill.
Mechanical is a non-starter
DaveE.
Re: Joe (18:55:28)
Ah yes, the lonely desperate cry of the wounded eccentric inventor. “You’re not even listening to my brilliant explanations! Forget it, you are incapable of understanding my sheer genius!”
Build the prototype, take measurements, demonstrate how wonderful it is. And stop pitching it to the major hydro outfits, they get nervous with anything lacking a proven track record. The technology should scale, there are plenty of small applications out there (small hydro, micro hydro, even pico hydro). The big boys won’t touch it, but there are lots of little guys who can be persuaded, and from there you can build a record of proven performance that the large players will eventually notice as you scale up to larger projects.
PS: Consider low to no maintenance a necessity, make sure your product has that.
kadaka (22:28:16) :
You still did not get it.
Every Hydro Electric Turbine harness energy in balk and miss a massive amount of energy.
I have split the energy and harness it individually.
The turbine system I created is just 2 pieces. Split enery and focus it and harnessing.
Since your laziness into actually wanting to really understand turbines by just using the web, you have missed a great deal of detailed information that a book from the library can bring.
Do you think the engineers and CEO Brennan at Manitoba Hydro are idiots in their field?
Just because you research a few days on wikapedia, you have become an expert.
Also which micro hydro company is big enough to have an R&D budget?
That is why they copy off the big boys. So no matter if I did a proto-type, I have no manufacturer to bring it to.
Richard S Courtney
I agree, like the great wall. Or possibly, like Menhirs and Henges? Particularly when they stand idle, and in that they seem to serve another purpose, not altogether obvious to non believers.
>>kadaka (14:48:58) :
>>At this point wind technology can overlap with water technology
>>and possibly make wind profitable.
Not feasible – not enough hills. What does Holland do? What does the UK do – especially in England?
Britain has no hills left available for damming, without severe disruption to communities and loud complaints by the Green lobby (yes, them again). And even if we did create some more dams, their output would be piddling in comparison with our energy requirements. – – Especially, if the Greens want electric vehicles, which would treble our electrical demand.
BTW, I have said this before, and will say it again – electrical vehicles plugged into a fossil-fuel powered grid burn more oil and create more emissions than a good European diesel car (not an American gas-guzzler, of course)
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>>ChrisP (03:41:25) :
>>(Windelecs) like Menhirs and Henges? Particularly when
>>they stand idle, and in that they seem to serve another
>>purpose, not altogether obvious to non believers.
Ah, yes. Sacred totems to Mother Earth that we are supposed to dance around, naked. That is what they are for….
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From Joe (02:21:05) :
Do you think the engineers and CEO Brennan at Manitoba Hydro are idiots in their field?
You must think so, since according to you they are passing up on a great opportunity to make many times their current profits.
Also which micro hydro company is big enough to have an R&D budget?
That is why they copy off the big boys.
Water turbine technology scales up and down in size. Do you think the commercially-successful designs all had their very first working example ever made be a full-size unit that the entire success of a major hydro project depended on?
So no matter if I did a proto-type, I have no manufacturer to bring it to.
And without a working prototype to back up your claims, it’ll be tough finding a manufacturer who’ll even be willing to talk to you. Your theories matter less than a working example yielding real verifiable numbers. Investors can have only a passing interest in how something works, they care that it does work and it will make them money.
Welcome to the world of the independent inventor. If you trust your design, you will build the prototype. If you cannot then locate a big investor, and you can successfully scale it down, go entrepreneur, build and sell it yourself until you can get an investor.
Until you build it, I see no real evidence you yourself even trust your own work. And neither will any potential investors.
Re: Ralph (06:16:40)
It is possible, most practical with an existing hydroelectric dam near a good site for wind (around the rim of the reservoir perhaps)…
Remember, we’re in Green Logic World. First you show that it might work, then you build it on the sure hope it will work…
Then you decide it was not a colossal failure, likely has green healthy benefits for Mother Earth that make it worthwhile anyway, and build another!
>>kadaka (08:16:06) :0)
>>It is possible, most practical with an existing hydroelectric dam
>>near a good site for wind (around the rim of the reservoir perhaps)…
Do you know haw many hydro plants there are in the UK? They would not power one city.
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Ralph:
You make a sarcastic comment at (06:42:49) on 19.03.2010 in response to ChrisP (03:41:25) on 19.03.2010 .
But ChrisP was supporting my post at (17:14:18) on 18.03.2010 that concluded:
“So, I genuinely think that governments will continue to subsidise windfarms until an alternative and equally obvious propoganda statement is found for governments’ to display their ‘green’ credentials.”
Other than sarcasm, I wonder if you have any response to the argument that provides that conclusion.
Please note that the conclusion is in the light of my question to Troels Halken (that he seems not to have not noticed twice) and I summarised at (11:45:13) on 18.03.2010. I explicitly stated the point – having explained it – in that post when I wrote:
“I would greatly appreciate your explaining why you think windfarms have any economic, environmental or practical benefit for power generation when their only effects are
(a) to displace thermal power stations to operate at reduced efficiency or onto spinning standby whilst waiting for the wind to change
(b) to cover countryside in concrete for the turbines’ foundations and the roads to access them, and
(c) to increase the costs of delivered electricity.”
Richard
Ralph (08:05:10) :
Do you know haw many hydro plants there are in the UK? They would not power one city.
Yup.
We’re not directly disagreeing on anything here. We both know the wind schemes are impractical. I’m just an inventive troubleshooting-type tech-minded person who automatically strings together things in ways that may make sense, even when not that obvious.
I’m stating it is possible in principle to have profitable wind power that way. If you are really going to go ahead anyway, this looks like your best shot at making it work. And… that’s pretty much all I was saying.
We are in Ontario and our provincial gov’t has sold our province out to turbines companies. 3 projects have been approved in our small community approx. 15 turbines. We are preparing for appeals. If you have any suggestions please forward your opinions. It would be a dream come true to have our projects cancelled.