{"id":2604,"date":"2006-06-07T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/rum-do-at-windshare\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T18:52:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T22:52:56","slug":"rum-do-at-windshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/rum-do-at-windshare\/","title":{"rendered":"Rum Do At WindShare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windshare.ca\/\">WindShare<\/a>&#8216;s having a special general meeting tonight to discuss the following resolution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Moved that the Board of WindShare recommends to the WindShare I <\/em><em>membership at their general meeting of June 7, 2006, the merger of WindShare I and <\/em><em>WindShare II for the purpose of entering into the activities necessary for the <\/em><em>development of the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrysideenergyco-op.ca\/\">Lakewind<\/a> Proposal. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is quite an important step, and since I&#8217;m still in Pittsburgh, I&#8217;d hoped to vote by proxy. I was informed by the WindShare administrator that this wasn&#8217;t possible; the Cooperative Corporations Act does not allow proxy voting.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m annoyed by this, as it looks like WindShare is going to merge its capital with a 10MW project being built on a site with a 6.5 m\/s mean wind speed. I wouldn&#8217;t develop a project on a site with this low a wind speed, so I asked the following of the board:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Can you clarify, please, that the vote can only be carried if a majority of WindShare members are present at the meeting? It would be grossly unfair if an important vote like this one was carried by a minority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I would also like to have questions brought to the board, and if possible, the meeting itself. The LakeWind information package states that Bervie has &#8220;an average wind speed of 6.5m\/s &#8230; making this an excellent site for Ontario&#8221;. I would not consider a site having this wind resource to be excellent, and it would certainly not be one that would attract a commercial developer. So my questions are:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Is it in the membership&#8217;s best interests to develop a relatively low wind site? WindShare made their political point with the ExPlace turbine, and now we must show that community wind is economically viable.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Would either of the potential sites be forced to curtail output when\/if the extra Bruce units come online? While LakeWind would be connecting to local distribution, any generation in that area might be subject to queueing limitations.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve heard nothing, which makes me uneasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WindShare&#8216;s having a special general meeting tonight to discuss the following resolution: Moved that the Board of WindShare recommends to the WindShare I membership at their general meeting of June 7, 2006, the merger of WindShare I and WindShare II for the purpose of entering into the activities necessary for the development of the proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[1013,1302,223,85,763,330,1353,281,255,483,165,1031,147,1413,505,1366,824,70,1269,60,973,547,59,193,582],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-1013","tag-ack","tag-bruce","tag-car","tag-co-op","tag-coop","tag-count","tag-energy","tag-excel","tag-explace","tag-import","tag-low","tag-ontario","tag-opera","tag-proj","tag-quote","tag-share","tag-turbine","tag-ugh","tag-urbine","tag-via","tag-vote","tag-wind","tag-windshare","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-G0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}