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Maine
Guide Wind Power, LLC “Your guide to energy independence”
This is a journal of my own
installation from start to finish, it should give you a better idea
of how a project like this happens.
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My introduction into wind power started several years
ago when I was recruited to work part time for UPC Wind
Power to help install and maintain a vast network of
meteorological towers. This past winter as the
wind blew and blew, and my electric bill hovered around $300
per month, I kept trying to figure out a solution to my
power needs. After much reading on the internet, I
decided my best option was to install a Bergey Excel 10kw
turbine on my roughly 9 acre parcel in Millinocket, Maine.
The picture to the left shows the view of the tower site
from my front door. |
| Once I was able to obtain a building permit from the
town, the tower installation process began with me arming
myself with a chainsaw and tackling the clearing of the
tower site, 1 tree at a time. The picture to the right
shows the knoll I decided on as the future home of my
turbine. As you can see it is very wooded.
Fortunately I heat my home with fire wood, so the process of
clearing the knoll accomplished the filling of my wood shed
with enough firewood for 3 years worth of Maine winters.
I cleaned up the limbs while I worked, to keep my tower site
trip hazard free while I cleared the roughly 75 foot radius
clearing.
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The clearing process took nearly 3 weeks as I dropped
trees, chipped the limbs and moved on to the next tree.
When I had the trees down in the rough opening of the tower
site I contracted an excavator operator to help in the
digging of the anchor holes, and the laying of a dual
purpose road, and wire run path. I needed an excavator
for my anchor hole digging, as my area has glacial till soil
with huge boulders of several hundred to several thousand
pounds. Most back hoes would not be able to have much
success in digging in this sort of terrain. The
excavator operator was able to remove some large stumps, as
well as move the large boulders to the side, as it dug the
three anchor holes and the tower pad location.
Unfortunately for me, my area of Maine requires the anchors
and pad foundation to be at least 6 feet deep to be below
the frost line. This will add to the cost of concrete
for this project. |
-Rick
Theriault |
Contact Information
Rick Theriault
P.O. Box 958
Millinocket, ME 04462
(207) 723-5535
Use the above link to request more information! |
