Our next step is to create purchase power agreements. |
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. |
That project will burn a waste product imported from the Mainland until the developer acquires a local fuel source. |
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. |
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 cannot include a wind turbine to be firm capacity. |
We will be purchasing the energy, not the capacity. |
Wind is intermittent and the developer will first need to go through six to 12 months of wind monitoring (to determine best placement). |