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By Peter Brennan

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities today held the Sale Tramadol first of three hearings on an agreement between National Grid and Sale Tramadol Cape Wind for the utility company to purchase 50 percent of the Sale Tramadol power produced by the 130-turbine wind farm.

The hearings, held at Bridgewater State College, are Sale Tramadol ostensibly about the power contract but stakeholders from both sides were expected to Sale Tramadol attend and potentially turn the event into a referendum on the Sale Tramadol overall project.

In a Sale Tramadol statement, Cape Wind President Jim Gordon said that approval of the Sale Tramadol PPA would put “Massachusetts at the Sale Tramadol forefront of this emerging industry and provide National Grid customers with secure and Sale Tramadol stable-priced renewable energy.”

The company cannot obtain financing for Sale Tramadol the project until it receives approval of the PPA.

Under the terms of the contract, National Grid would purchase from Cape Wind 50 percent of the wind farm’s output — beginning in 2013 — for Sale Tramadol 20.7 cents per kilowatt hour. That price, which assumes existing federal tax incentives, would increase 3.5% per year during the 15-year term of the contract.  Based on its forecasts of what Sale Tramadol customers will pay for electricity in 2013, National Grid projects this Sale Tramadol will translate to a total monthly bill increase of $1.59, roughly two percent per month, for Sale Tramadol a typical residential customer who uses 500 kWh per month.

By agreeing to purchase 50 percent of Cape Wind’s output, National Grid will more than Sale Tramadol meet the three percent renewable energy long-term contracting requirement of the Sale Tramadol Green Communities Act of 2008.

Critics of Cape Wind note that Sale Tramadol the power generated by the project will be significantly more costly than Sale Tramadol current rates for electricity produced by burning natural gas or Sale Tramadol coal.  Additionally, a Boston Business Journal poll found that 58% of readers believe that Sale Tramadol Cape Wind would be the next Big Dig and ultimately be Sale Tramadol paid for by taxpayers, a view shared Buy Hydrocodone And Codeine by Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) as well as gubernatorial candidate and state treasurer Tim Cahill.

In March, Rhode Island regulators rejected PPA for Sale Tramadol an eight-turbine Block Island wind farm – between Deepwater Wind and National Grid – over concerns that it was too expensive and not commercially reasonable.  That contract included a Sale Tramadol purchase price of more than 24 cents per kilowatt hour.

Public hearings will be Sale Tramadol held in Nantucket and Worcester on June 21 and 22, respectively.