The Charlestown wind turbine run by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is slated to be back up and running by mid August, according to an authority spokeswoman.
“The contractor is finishing up the installation of the foundation piles,” said MWRA spokeswoman Ria Convery in an email to Charlestown Patch Tuesday.
“We expect that to be done by the end of the week/early next week," Convery said. "Then they will pour the cement, which needs seven days to cure and once that’s done, we’ll be back up and running.”
The repairs, which the authority has said in the past are under warranty, will correct a problem with the turbine’s foundation sinking faster than expected.
Bill Carson
9:35 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Don't believe anything Massachusetts officials tell you about wind turbines. On March 9, 2012 the Massachusetts MWRA insisted the wind turbine was in perfect order. The truth was it broke nine two inch bolts and almost tipped over. This is another "Big Dig "
Then they said the turbine is working at slow speed . Next in April they are fixing the foundation telling the news it will be fixed in ten weeks ! Then now in June they are going to have the turbine fixed in ten more weeks ?
What the MWRA forgot to tell the taxpayers is that the 364-foot turbine was installed in October using federal stimulus money ! Our tax money it's been broken down everyday since October of 2011 !
Now it will be working in August 10 months after this financial fiasco !
.http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/01news/2012/update-charlestownturbine.html
Bill Carson
9:38 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Dirty little secrets about the wind industry and million dollar gear boxfailures . The Portsmouth High School ,Rhode Island wind turbine only three years old had a gearbox failure. The repairs could cost over one million dollars .The Princeton,Masschusetts wind turbine had gear box failure which cost over $600,000.00 to repair
The wind industry hides the secrets of the O&M ,operation and maintenance of these turbines and hides dirty little secrets about gear box failures.
The Charlestown ,Massachusetts wind tubine started last Oct 2011 .The foundation bolts broke off as soon as it started . Millions more are going into the Charlestown MWRA wind turbine just like the "Big Dig"
These wind turbine projects are a bunco scheme! Everytime the wind industry has a major falure they tell people the newer wind turbines don't break down !
Now they tell people the new wind turbines have direct drive and they don't break down - they don'y tell you that they have permanent magnets that can't be replaced .
Finally wind turbines cause more fossil fuels to be burnt when the coal plants have to make up production when the wind doesn't blow . A financial fiasco ....