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In the summer of 2004, Synergics Wind Energy, LLC, filed an application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) from the Maryland Public Service Commission to construct a 40 MW wind facility in the mountains of western Maryland, since amended to request a 47.5 MW plant. In the fall of 2004, Jon Boone requested and was granted an intervenors status with the proceeding, joining a number of other parties to include the state's Department of Natural Resources and other intervenors such as the state's Sierra Club and the Audubon Naturalist Society. For more than a year, the applicant and the various intervenors have introduced direct testimony and expert witnesses, which culminated in an evidentiary hearing in September, 2005. The relevant documentation can be seen on the Maryland Public Service Commission website by typing in Case No. 9008.
Jon Boone has made available here all of his documents related to this proceeding—a distillation of his testimony (which includes his July 25 direct
testimony, his August 16 supplemental testimony, and his September 9 surrebuttal testimony), all of which was formally introduced as evidence in the proceeding on September 16. After the evidentiary hearing on September 22, he submitted a post hearing brief on November 23 and, on December 5, a post hearing reply brief.
During the proceeding, Jon Boone submitted responses to four sets of data requests—three from Synergics and one from the Department of Natural Resources. These are presented here because they provide information about sources and procedures in this kind of regulatory hearing that might be helpful to those embarking on a similar effort.
Altogether these documents constitute his public record in this PSC process. The hearing examiner in the case is not expected to make a ruling until 2006.
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Tom Adams, Executive Director, Energy probe. November 15, 2006.
This is the attachment to the appeal to the proposed order of the hearing examiner.
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This responds to the appeals of three other intervenors in this case.
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Jon Boone's comment to the MDPSC in response to Clipper Wind, LLC's request to transfer its CPCN, which it received more than four years ago, to Constellation Energy, headquartered in Houston, TX—and the parent company of Maryland's largest utility, Baltimore Gas and Electric. The Public Service Commissioners unanimously approved the request, without comment.
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Jon Boone's Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly hearings on companion bills that would allow wind developers to circumvent the MDPSC regulatory hearings required for all power generators operating in Maryland.
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By Gleen R. Schleede
Glenn Schleede is an economist who has written extensively about the problems with the wind industry. In this essay, he clearly demonstrates the Rube Goldberg nature of wind technology while showing the improved effectiveness of other energy technologies.
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Jon Boone's essay, The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines, was published in Contemporary Aesthetics on September 28, 2005. |
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Caithness Windfarms Information Forum |
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Caithness Windfarms Information Forum |
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