Subject: Wind Energy Weekly #5 2/2

From: [email-masked] (Howard Smith)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:32:00 -0700

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Vestas         3.25

Manufacturer Guarantee

Bonus          3.22
Wind World     3.17
Vestas         3.13
Nordtank       3.10

Turbine Quality

Bonus          3.29
Tellus         3.29
Wind World     3.25
Micon          3.24

Manufacturer Service Guarantee

Nordex         3.25
Vestas         3.24
Bonus          3.11
Nordtank       3.07

     WindStats listed Bonus with the highest overall ranking (41
points), and Wind World and Vestas as runners up (34 and 33
points, respectively). Nordex had 31 points.

AWEA URGES WIND AS
CLEAN AIR REMEDY

     Utilities faced with the need to comply with federal clean air
laws should consider retiring polluting power plants and replacing
them with wind, AWEA said in comments filed June 24 before the
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU).

     The DPU had announced in late May that it would be
investigating utilities' plans for compliance with the Clean Air
Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA), which require reductions in sulfur
dioxide (SO2) emissions.  The DPU said its review is aimed at
ensuring that utilities meet CAAA requirements "in a manner
consistent with least-cost planning principles to achieve the
lowest possible cost impact on the ratepayers of the Commonwealth."

     AWEA Northeast Representative Tom Gray, in the comments, urged
that the DPU use the proceeding to begin applying non-economic
costs of power generation ("externalities") to existing power
plants.  Although Massachusetts has taken a strong position on
valuing externalities, it has so far only applied them to planning
for future resources.

     Gray noted that the recently-released Massachusetts Energy
Plan calls for state government to "develop incentives and/or
mandatory requirements that would encourage utilities to expand
their [use] of renewables" and to "quantify, in dollar terms, the
environmental, diversity, risk reduction and other benefits and
costs of renewable energy resources."