Project News & Resources
Recent News
Fox Islands Electric Coop Updates
- Fox Islands Electric Coop Update on Turbine Performance and Noise Issue – 4/7/2011
- Fox Islands Electric Co-op Update on Turbine Performance and Noise Issue – 12/7/2010
- Fox Islands Electric Co-op Update on Turbine Performance and Noise Issue – 7/7/2010
- Fox Islands Electric Co-op Update on Turbine Performance and Noise Issue – 10/7/2010
- Fox Islands Electric Co-op Update on Turbine Performance and Noise Issue – 5/6/2010
- Fox Islands Electric Co-op Update on Turbine Performance and Noise Issue - 3/6/2010
Sampling of Community Responses
- Public Opinion Survey Results - July 2010
- Letter to the Editor submitted by Alan Barker II - May 2010
- Letter to the Editor submitted by Flora Drury – 4/18/2010
- Maine Sunday Telegram: A Community Works to Resolve a Community Issue - 1/30/2010
- Letter to the Editor submitted by the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative Board of Directors – 1/26/2010
Sound Issues
For information on the steps that Fox Islands Wind and the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative have taken to address concerns about noise from the turbines, please see the Cco-op updates above as well as the following resources:
- Work on Wind Turbine Blades - 8/2/2011
- Fox Islands Electric Responds to Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- FIEC/NREL Sound Study Documents – Fall 2010
- Update to the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative on Discussions with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection - 9/17/2010
- Fox Islands Wind to work with Maine Department of Environmental Protection to clarify discrepancies between sound experts - 9/10/2010
- Final Report on February Sound Experiment – June 2010
- "Beyond Noise" by Del Webster - February 2010
- Maine Sunday Telegram: A Community Works to Resolve a Community Issue - 1/30/2010
- Acoustic Ecology Institute Special Report: Wind Energy Noise Impacts
Meeting Announcements
Press Coverage & Other Updates
- Fox Islands Wind to be featured at AWEA WINDPOWER 2010 conference - May 2010
- Fox Islands Wind awarded Seed Grant from the Maine Technology Institute - May 2010
- Unity College Visits Fox Islands Wind – 4/9/2010
- Excess wind power finds home on Maine islands – 4/4/2010
- As electric co-op conducts sound experiment, Vinalhaven residents debate solution to turbine noise issue - February 2010
- Video Clip: Largest New England Coastal Wind Project Begins Power Generation
- Islanders awed by wind turbines
- Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Media Coverage
- Largest New England Coastal Wind Project Begins Power Generation
- Wind project brings islanders, workers together
- Flipping the Switch
- Video Clip: Fox Islands Wind Project Winding Down
- Fox Islands Wind CEO George Baker to speak at Sustainable Island Living Conference
- Midcoast Wind Power Project Nears Completion - WCSH6
- Video Clip: First Wind Tower Rises on Vinalhaven
- First wind turbine tower section installed
- Fox Islands Wind Towers Poised to Rise
- Podcast: Building Community Support for Renewables (feat. George Baker & Addison Ames)
- Islanders excited by wind turbine blade delivery
- Video clip: Fox Islands Wind Turbine Blades Arrive
- Nine Turbine Blades Set to Arrive in Rockland
- Baker takes time from Harvard to explore energy development for islands
- Community celebrates Fox Islands wind power groundbreaking! - Read Philip Conkling's, President & Founder, Island Institute, remarks. - View a gallery of images - View video clip by Cianbro.
- New Energy Project In the Wind On Vinalhaven - WCSH6.com coverage (includes video)
- George Baker speaks at Ocean Energy Council June 19.
- First wind turbine down payment made to General Electric May 18th.
The first down payment for wind turbines was paid to General Electric on May 18th. The $1.5 million payment secures a place in the wind turbine production schedule for turbine delivery in mid August.
For More Information
- The Fox Islands Wind Project Fact Sheet
- Direct questions and concerns to 594-9209, ext. 144 or .
For More Information
- Direct questions and concerns to 594-9209, ext. 144 or .
