MassCEC In Big Trouble Over Wind Turbine Fiasco

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) was founded by the Green Jobs Act legislation in 2008. This quasi-public agency’s first mission was to put public renewable energy trust funds to work to build two foreign-made commercial megawatt wind turbines in Falmouth, Massachusetts between 2010 and 2012.

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) was stuck with two old gear is driven commercial wind turbines that couldn't be sold at auction.

For the past decade at least in Falmouth, it has been quite unsuccessful, serving as a ground-breaking national model of how not to build commercial wind turbines. Each turbine generates 110 decibels of noise for a total of 113 megawatts

Massachusetts residents describe wind turbine installations as torture and the Massachusetts courts shut down the town-owned wind turbines in June of 2017.

The MassCEC and the state through press releases bill itself as an international climate leader by advancing clean technology innovation, job creation, and investment, but leaves out leveraging more than $1.78 billion in private capital. Billions that took health and property rights.

Massachusetts Gov Charley Baker, when he took office, announced a budget deficit of almost one billion dollars from former Governor Patrick while hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed state taxpayer funds were being dumped into the New Bedford Harbor ocean wind turbine project.

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal was projected by former Governor Patrick to cost 35 million dollars. The project sits today incomplete at 133 million dollars. The project has had its name changed on an almost weekly basis to hide the ongoing fiasco from taxpayers.

No one really knows the name of the terminal and no one has ever seen the lease of the ill-fated ocean port.

The bond payments on the idle New Bedford ocean port are near $180.000.00 a month for 30 years and growing. The ocean terminal has only a 120-foot legal width clearance at the hurricane gate, no rail link, a federal channel outside the gates not dredged, no cranes and needs more of your tax dollars for an ocean wind turbine port that was already built at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

Last week the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is charged with growing the state’s clean energy economy but has been spending millions of dollars more every year than it takes in from the Revenue Trust Fund.

The cash in the Revenue Trust Fund comes from assessments on your utility bills in Massachusetts.

Last week MassCEC lost another court appeal on the New Bedford Ocean Wind Turbine Port in which the jury reached a verdict in favor of the contractors, awarding them 21 million-plus including legal fees.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center awarded a no-bid contract last November to Governor Charlie Baker’s former chief of staff, agreeing to pay him $2,000 a day to “produce a working strategic direction document????”