10-06-2009, 04:15 PM
Working on a full project document and also possible case study as well. this is the culmination of a vision going back 3 years and over 2 years of research and paper work.
The politicians might have you think that there are market barriers to energy like this. It took a lot less time to get the foundation in and then erect the Turbine compared to the months and months of local and also regulatory (courtesy of ComEd/Excelon) paperwork to get the project completely green lighted. I elaborate a bit more in our 10/5 newsletter:
http://www.macsales.com/newsletter/10-05...Deals.html
Financially this made sense based on the wind profile for our location - this makes it a win win in terms of the green energy source as well as long term competitive cost advantage. in addition to general information indicating this county was good for wind energy, we paid for a wind study to allow for modeling of the different Turbine options that would make sense. From there we walked through the steps and voila - it's up and with planned 'maiden spin' first power generation come Monday the 19th.
What took a good two years for us once we got rolling definitely should be a shorter time line for anyone in our area who chooses to follow. in general it's more a lack of information and experience with the permits and such for this kind of project that substantially slow it down. We had good people at the county level and with the army core of engineers working on the various verifications needed for the approval - but this was a first for those doing so and they took their time and double checked and triple checked and reverified, etc, etc, etc before stamping at each step.... again - I think the next to put a turbine up in McHenry County, IL will have a much quicker and less mutually frustrating permitting process.
The politicians might have you think that there are market barriers to energy like this. It took a lot less time to get the foundation in and then erect the Turbine compared to the months and months of local and also regulatory (courtesy of ComEd/Excelon) paperwork to get the project completely green lighted. I elaborate a bit more in our 10/5 newsletter:
http://www.macsales.com/newsletter/10-05...Deals.html
Financially this made sense based on the wind profile for our location - this makes it a win win in terms of the green energy source as well as long term competitive cost advantage. in addition to general information indicating this county was good for wind energy, we paid for a wind study to allow for modeling of the different Turbine options that would make sense. From there we walked through the steps and voila - it's up and with planned 'maiden spin' first power generation come Monday the 19th.
What took a good two years for us once we got rolling definitely should be a shorter time line for anyone in our area who chooses to follow. in general it's more a lack of information and experience with the permits and such for this kind of project that substantially slow it down. We had good people at the county level and with the army core of engineers working on the various verifications needed for the approval - but this was a first for those doing so and they took their time and double checked and triple checked and reverified, etc, etc, etc before stamping at each step.... again - I think the next to put a turbine up in McHenry County, IL will have a much quicker and less mutually frustrating permitting process.