Wind Turbines For Sale: Falmouth Massachusetts Built In 2004

In June 2017 Barnstable Superior Court Judge Moriarty agreed with the Falmouth Zoning Board the wind turbines are a nuisance and shut down the turbines. The Town of Falmouth had 60 days to appeal the decision and anyone else had time to appeal the decision. No one filed an appeal in the alotted time.

In July of 2017, the Falmouth Select Board voted not to appeal the decision. Chairwoman Susan Moran said: "It's time to put the matter behind us and move forward."

The Falmouth Wind 1 turbine one of the two town owned wind turbines is up for sale.

These turbines come complete with two types of noise : Up to 110 decibels in regulatory noise as rated by the manufacturer and infra sound per: Chief Executive Officer of Vestas wind company CEO Engel Ditlev who wrote a letter to Karen Ellemann about low frequency noise. The CEO responded that Vestas does not have the technology to stop the noise. (infra-sound)

The Town has previously been provided with the Octave Band Data / Sound performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that the turbine normally operates at 103.2dB but the manufacturer has also stated that it may produce up to 110dB under certain circumstances.

Between 2004 and 2005 the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center purchased two Vestas V-82 Class 1.65 megawatt wind turbines for a wind turbine project in Orleans, Massachusetts. At that time Vestas wind company was taking over failing Neg Micon company. Neg Micon failed as a result of gear box failures in its turbines

The two Vestas V-82 turbines ordered between 2004 and 2005 were refused by the Town of Orleans. The two turbines remained in a warehouse in Texas at $3300.00 a month in storage fees until they were installed between 2009 and 2010 at a private location in Falmouth and the other became the town owned wind turbine called Falmouth Wind I. The Town of Falmouth subsequently purchased a second wind turbines also a Vestas V-82 class 1.65 megawatt wind turbine called Falmouth Wind II.
Basically in 2004 Neg Micon changed its name to Vestas in 2005 as it was consumed by Vestas wind company. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative changed its name to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center during and after the installations of all the Falmouth wind turbines between 2009 and 2010.

In 2006 the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center warned Mattapoisett residents of two distinct types of noise from the wind turbines regulatory measured in decibels and human annoyance. In 1987 human annoyance was defined as infra sound in the NASA investigation by Dr. Neil Kelley at Boone, North Carolina
The warnings of two distinct types of noise were left out of the Falmouth feasibility and fatal flaw analysis studies.
In 2004 the Oregon Department of Energy noted the NM 82 causes low frequency noise and low frequency noise...can disturb rest and sleep even at low sound pressure levels also noise may increase considerably the adverse effects on health.
It appears Vestas purchased Neg Micon and continued building the Neg Micon NM-82 as the Vestas V-82
Please check specifications for V-82 and N-82 they appear to be the same for both NM-82 and V-82 1.65 megawatt turbines
Vestas V-82 2005 Falmouth Wind 1 Neg Micon NM-82 2004
Many older U.S. facilities use NEG Micon turbines, and Vestas has absorbed that manufacturer.
Many of the Vestas V-82 turbines today after only 5 to 8 years of service require new gear boxes and blades
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General Specifications Vestas V-82 and Neg Micon NM 82/1650 Version 2
https://www.edprnorthamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Exhibit-6.pdf
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Oregon Department of Energy 2004 wind turbine infra sound NEG Micon NM-82 wind turbine

CATHARINE M. LAWTON
7039 MT. PLEASANT DR.
WEST BEND, WISCONSIN 53090
March 11, 2004
BY EMAIL: noise.comments@state.or.us
Mike Grainey, Hearing Officer c/o Kathy Stuttaford
Oregon Department of Energy
625 Marion Street NE Salem, Oregon 97301
Subject: Comments – Notice of Proposed Rule making; Noise Control Regulations Related to Wind Energy Facilities
Dear Mr. Grainey:
Mike Grainey, Hearing Officer
Jump To Page 10 & 11 March 11, 2004
2) Wind Turbines Generate Low Frequency Noise which is Known to Cause Adverse Health Effects: Wind turbines are known to produce low frequency noise.16
The fact that modern wind turbines produce low frequency noise is confirmed by the windmill noise profile (NEG Micon NM-82 wind turbine) that was provided during the informal discussion.17
According to WHO special attention should be given to low frequency noise:
...[s]pecial attention should also be given to: noise sources in an environment with low background sound levels; combinations of noise and vibrations; and to noise sources with low-frequency components. It should be noted that low frequency noise...can disturb rest and sleep even at low sound pressure levels. If the noise includes a large proportion of low-frequency components, still lower values than the guideline values below will be needed. When prominent low frequency components are present, noise measures based on A-weighting are inappropriate. The difference between dB(C) and dB(A) will give crude information about the presence of low-frequency components in noise, but if the difference is more than 10 dB, it is recommended that a frequency analysis of the noise be performed.
It should be noted that a large proportion of low frequency components in noise may increase considerably the adverse effects on health. (Emphasis added.)
https://docs.wind-watch.org/Lawton-Noise.pdf
https://docs.wind-watch.org/Lawton-Noise.pdf
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It appears Vestas puchased bankrupt Neg Micon in 2004 and produced the Vestas V 82 - You can see that replacement parts noted below are the same for a (Neg Micon NM-82) and a (Vestas V-82) --The same as Falmouth
NEG Micon is a former Danish wind turbine manufacturer. It was formed in 1997 as a result of a merger between Nordtank Energy Group (NEG) and Moerup Industrial Windmill Construction Company (Micon).The company was merged with another Danish wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, in 2004--
NEG Micon built the NM-82 turbine turbine ( Neg Micon )
V82(NM82) DAMPER REPLACEMENT

Applicable to

Vestas: V72(NM72),V82(NM82)
NEG Micon: NM72(V82), NM82(V82)

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