{"id":6162,"date":"2011-03-28T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2011-04-13T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:53:13","slug":"explace-turbine-shutdown-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/explace-turbine-shutdown-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"ExPlace Turbine Shutdown for Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this in my twitter feed the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>windshare: ExPlace Turbine Shutdown for Service http:\/\/wp.me\/p11wfW-8T<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From what the linked news release said, it looks like the turbine has had a major mechanical component failure. The replacement part will take several months to arrive, then needs a crane to replace it. The turbine is structurally sound, and is even yawing to follow the wind, but can&#8217;t generate.<\/p>\n<p>This is a shame, as the volunteers at <a title=\"WindShare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windshare.ca\/\">WindShare<\/a> had just got the turbine operating at very close to commercial availability. There are also a couple of usefully windy months before the summer for which co-op members will lose revenue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: a very watered-down news release went up on April 3rd: <a href=\"https:\/\/windshare.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/03\/turbine-technology-update\/\">Turbine Technology Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this in my twitter feed the other day: windshare: ExPlace Turbine Shutdown for Service http:\/\/wp.me\/p11wfW-8T From what the linked news release said, it looks like the turbine has had a major mechanical component failure. The replacement part will take several months to arrive, then needs a crane to replace it. The turbine is [&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":[2288,43,70,59,193],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-maintenance","tag-toronto","tag-turbine","tag-wind","tag-windshare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","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=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6240,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}