Jeff Deren Quotations

Our next step is to create purchase power agreements.

Wind is intermittent and the developer will first need to go through six to 12 months of wind monitoring (to determine best placement).

We actually had purchase power agreements signed by a wind developer and a municipal solid waste developer, but the developers had trouble finding a site and it was right about the time we were switching over to a co-op and the funding fell through.

We will be purchasing the energy, not the capacity.

We cannot include a wind turbine to be firm capacity.

Right now we get 93 percent of our energy from burning fossil fuels. If all of these projects come on-line that number will be down to around 55 percent.

The municipal solid waste generates power from burning the trash we throw away. The developer still needs to secure a source of fuel for that one.

That project will burn a waste product imported from the Mainland until the developer acquires a local fuel source.