"FOOLS RUSH IN" elvis presley
Where people with some common sense know better to tread.
If you have been reading the blog. you know AMP-OHIO was the winning bidder to supply Columbus, Ohio with power. Columbus Dispatch story on August 1,2012.
Starting in 2014 AMP-OHIO will supply Columbus Power with electricity at $42.00 MWh Columbus switched from AEP to AMP mainly because of the length of AMP-OHIO power cost guarantee.
To you who may not know Columbus said no thanks to AMPGS as well as Prairie State.
This made me wonder why Painesville, Galion and others will be paying close to $68.00 MWH from Prairie State. Yes before anyone asks we are obligated to purchase this power.
Yes! Painesville you own the cow, and yes you pay more for the milk.
Then I remembered ANOTHER deal AMP-OHIO presented to city council around October 2010. Seems when AMP has a fish on the line they go back and see if they can get somemore. Pay attention Galion and other AMP communities... you too might have been sucked into this AMP-OHIO deal also.
RESOLUTION 40-10
RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTION OF A POWER PURCHASE CONTRACT WITH
AMERICAN MUNICIPAL POWER, INC. KNOWN AS AMPGS REPLACEMENT ENERGY AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY was given first reading.
Ms. McMahon explained as identified during the work session on the AMP projects and in a previous
memorandum to City Council, Painesville Electric has the opportunity to purchase power for a period beginning 2015 through 2020 at a fixed price. This is based load power (24 x 7) which will offset the power needs that had been anticipated to be filled by the AMPGS baseload plant that will not be constructed. The purchase price is a firm price of $62.95/MWh with no escalation. The legislation is written to purchase 6000 kWh or 6 MW of this power to meet our future needs. The price is a very good price based on future market price projections which estimate the price of power to be over $67 per MWh in 2015. Currently, the Plant cannot produce enough electricity to meet our daily demand. The plant has a maximum capacity, if all units are running of 32 MW. The system demand is approximately 42 MW in the winter and 50 MW in the summer today. Therefore we rely on purchased power to fill the gap between generated power and the actual demand. Based on our load forecasts we estimate that
in 2015 our power demand grow by 5.6%. The current power purchase contracts will expire prior to 2015. Therefore given the competitive price to market price and the need to serve the system purchasing from the AMP contract is a reasonable solution to continuing to insure that our baseload needs are met in the future at a market competitive price. The City would only pay when it gets the power.
This power agreement was voted on November 15, 2010 Notice we will be purchasing power $20.00/MWh more than Columbus and if your wondering what the total cost of this power over the five years will be it's well over the 15 million dollar range. Who voted for this? Hach. Fountain, Fodor and of course Hada. Against this DiNallo, Werner and Flock. And we got fooled again!
AMP-OHIO got us coming and going.
Along with City Manager Rita McMahon not being Painesville's Nostrdamus.
Maybe Cleveland Public Power Commissioner Ivan Henderson who also sits on AMP-OHIO Board of Directors could come and explain all this to us little people in Painesvilless. or at least explain it to Ron Regan at Newsnet.5
posted by terminator1 @ 10:29 AM
11 Comments
11 Comments:
Geeze,
Who writes this blog?
I have been told by leaders in the community at events like Party in the Park it's written by a very delusional person?
Odd he seems to get more right than wrong.
He also claims to have over 120,000 hits on this site. Crazy.
Didn't The City promise to buy all the wind power that a private firm will produce in North Perry at a cost of $75.00 per MW? Why are we buying power at these high cost?
I will find those minutes and post them also.
@ 8:13
Insanity at it's finest
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/07/14/news/nh2770889.txt?viewmode=default
This deal was brokered during the June 7,2010 council meeting. NexGen will provide 3.2 MW at 07.9 cents a kilowatt with no exposure for Painesville. No coal mine, no coal plant, no coal ashes, or bond payments if the wind mills fail fall over or fly away we are not involved. and we don't pay until we receive electricity. On the other hand NexGen gets all the credits from the government for alternative energy.
Your T-shirt of choice over the weekend was highly inappropriate, even for you!
I love wind power, who doesn't? Well I guess the EPA doesn't that's why NexGen wind mill project is already a year behind schedule. But lets face a very big fact, WIND POWER IS EXPENSIVE. Are the good customers of Painesville Power willing to pay more for cleaner energy? I thought we were going to pay $75/MW. Now TERM tells us the contract is $79/MW. The Township customers will have to pony-up and additional 10%. Ouch! Plus, I keep hearing that the City has spent "seed money" to help start this project. Does anybody other than the City Manager know how much we,ve spent? Why is everything so secrective?
Keep hearing they are always changing the size of the windmills. First 3 now 6, who know's never heard of any "seed" money.
Power producers in the state must have different ways to produce power. These windmills make Painesville compliant.
Galion utility shutoff notices reach a new record 1037 just mailed out ...
Hot summer, electric rates at 14.5 per KW ... being told over 500 families left the community since school ended in June ... that's a lot of people.
More than 1/3 of the homes in the community will be without power shortly ... but due to the AMP contracts the city must still purchase the power regardless of needing it or not.
With these facts, you should approach all elected officals Federal, State, and Local. Make the press aware of everything going on and why in your town.
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