The figure above and table below summarize the plant's historical
electricity production to date, based on the
update from TVA, which was just released within the last couple days. TVA remains reluctant to provide
timely or detailed information about the performance of their wind power
plant, and it's no wonder. This report marks the 2nd worst performance TVA has reported so far. Actual
results may be even worse than appearances based on TVA's biased data reporting, but we won't know
unless we can see more data than TVA has been willing to publicize.
TVA again released results for 3 months of production, possibly to continue making difficult any attempts
at year-to-year comparisons.
While TVA's recent newsletter announced the "successful first audit" of the "green" power switch program, TVA also recently quietly announced cancellation of plans to build a Regenesys energy storage facility near the wind power plant. TVA apparently declined to explain the cancellation, but publicity about the associated dangers, and less than "green" appearances, may have played a part in the decision.
The data now extends for 24 months (2 years) of operations. Total
energy production, at 7 million kilowatt-hours, is only 17% more than the 6 million that TVA originally
predicted would be produced every 12 months! With a lifetime capacity factor of about 20%, TVA is
producing less than 60% as much power (on average) as their original predictions, which were based on
35% capacity factor. Wouldn't you like to know how they could be so far off?!
| Quote of the moment |
| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910.—“Citizenship in a Republic,” The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 21, p. 510 (1926).
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