Art Brigades's Posts - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T09:13:15ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigadeshttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1548424255?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=3aaqrx4e79kgz&xn_auth=noISO-NE Study Shows Need for Dispatchable Generation - Go Figuretag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-08-04:4401701:BlogPost:2460692022-08-04T19:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<h1 class="entry-title">ISO-NE: Significant dispatchable resources are a must in a decarbonized grid</h1>
<p><a href="https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2022/07/2021_economic_study_future_grid_reliability_study_phase_1_report.pdf">https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2022/07/2021_economic_study_future_grid_reliability_study_phase_1_report.pdf</a></p>
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<h1>Key takeaways</h1>
<p>ISO New England worked with the New England states and regional stakeholders to develop…</p>
<h1 class="entry-title">ISO-NE: Significant dispatchable resources are a must in a decarbonized grid</h1>
<p><a href="https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2022/07/2021_economic_study_future_grid_reliability_study_phase_1_report.pdf">https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2022/07/2021_economic_study_future_grid_reliability_study_phase_1_report.pdf</a></p>
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<h1>Key takeaways</h1>
<p>ISO New England worked with the New England states and regional stakeholders to develop assumptions and scenarios that looked at varying levels of decarbonization. Much of the study focuses on a deep decarbonization scenario derived from the <a href="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/ma-decarbonization-roadmap" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massachusetts 2050 Deep Decarbonization Roadmap Study</a>, which imagines heavy renewable penetration and high electrification loads.</p>
<p>The analysis found:</p>
<p><strong>Energy adequacy is a challenge under the studied scenarios.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The region would likely require significant dispatchable resources, such as natural gas or stored fuels, to support periods when variable resources are unavailable.</li>
<li>Battery storage systems may have difficulty sufficiently charging under predicted system demand curves.</li>
<li>The retirement of the region’s remaining nuclear generators, assumed in some scenarios, may pose a challenge to system reliability and state decarbonization goals.</li>
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<p><strong>The need for resource and demand flexibility increases under the studied scenarios.</strong></p>
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<li>The renewable energy resources needed for decarbonization are variable, and do not have the controllability and predictability of the region’s current dispatchable resources—meaning increased <a href="https://www.iso-ne.com/markets-operations/markets/regulation-market/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">regulation services</a> may be required.</li>
<li>Flexibility of both generation and demand resources may be needed to maintain the system’s balance.</li>
<li>The region may struggle to maintain necessary operating reserves in scenarios of high electrification and more aggressive retirements of existing resources.</li>
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<p><strong>A changing resource mix poses new challenges to the grid.</strong></p>
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<li>As the proportion of variable energy resources increases, and as New England’s grid again becomes a winter peaking system, processes and procedures may need to be refined, and remain fluid over the course of the grid’s transition.</li>
<li>The reserve margin—the resources needed to keep the system reliable and meet consumer demand in times of stress—may need to increase by an order of magnitude by 2040. Diversity in the future resource mix may reduce the need for additional resources.</li>
<li>As wind and solar become the region’s predominant sources of electricity, modeling approaches must better reflect the variability of these resources to produce representative results.</li>
<li>Current models assume summer production levels of select resources, because these resources have lower production capability in the summer. Assuming these lower levels year-round is a conservative way to model the grid. As stress on the grid shifts to the winter, this approach is likely to overstate risk to the system.</li>
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<p><strong>Dispatchable units are crucial to the future grid</strong></p>
<p>A modified version of the scenario that considers deep decarbonization — which models a future grid most closely described by current state policies related to future emissions — examined how reliability criteria could be met through a balanced mix of increased wind, solar, and energy storage. This scenario (Scenario 3_P7 in the chart below) would require such a large amount of wind and solar that it may present significant challenges to the transmission system and require an outsized amount of land or offshore areas to be sited and developed for the necessary wind and solar farms.</p>
<p>However, as shown below, the substitution of 3,000 MW of dispatchable units (which could include a variety of potentially emission-free technologies) would reduce the necessary new units of wind, solar, and storage by 19% (17,000 MW), illustrating the importance of dispatchable resources to the future grid. This substitution is represented in the chart below as “Scenario 3_P7 with DEFRs” (dispatchable emissions-free resources).</p>
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<p><img width="936" height="468" src="https://images.power-grid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ISO_NE_issues_reportFig1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-99101 td-animation-stack-type0-2"/>The substitution of 3,000 MW of dispatchable units (which could include a variety of potentially emission-free technologies) would reduce the necessary new units of wind, solar, and storage by 19% (17,000 MW).</p>Farms, Parks and Weaselstag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-21:4401701:BlogPost:2428192022-06-21T16:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p><span>With 1200 to 2000 MW planned, Number Nine Wind “Farm” will be bigger than Baxter State “Park” and far and away bigger than any “farm” in New England. Number Nine was huge when first proposed many years ago, but it has since...</span></p>
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<p><span>...acquired the rights that First Wind had at the King Pine and Horse Mountain project proposals, which are planned for just north of Baxter. </span></p>
<p><span>All of these proposed projects have been held in abeyance…</span></p>
<p><span>With 1200 to 2000 MW planned, Number Nine Wind “Farm” will be bigger than Baxter State “Park” and far and away bigger than any “farm” in New England. Number Nine was huge when first proposed many years ago, but it has since...</span></p>
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<p><span>...acquired the rights that First Wind had at the King Pine and Horse Mountain project proposals, which are planned for just north of Baxter. </span></p>
<p><span>All of these proposed projects have been held in abeyance because there has been a transmission gap between Aroostook County and the New England grid.</span></p>
<p><span>That gap is about to be filled.</span></p>
<div>One of the speakers at the Chamber event, Number Nine's Craig Nale, worked <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-nale-205840128/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-nale-205840128/</a> at the right hand of Senate President Troy Jackson until shortly before Jackson in 2021 sponsored the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program.</div>
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<div>Jackson's bill, <a href="https://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280080911">LD 1710</a>, was printed on a Friday afternoon (May 14). The legislative leaders quietly waived the 2-week public notice requirement and the bill had a hasty 9:30 am public hearing less than two business days later (Tuesday May 18). And then the Utilities Committee voted it in just one brief work session (June 4). It took legislative staff a mere 12 days to produce the committee’s bill report, and it immediately leapfrogged hundreds of bills that had been awaiting votes, and it passed the House and Senate unanimously, without a recorded roll call vote, on June 16 & 17.</div>
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<div>One legislator (Rep. Nate Wadsworth) did vote against it in committee, but it was such a slam dunk, Wadsworth didn’t even debate it when it got to the House Floor, and it passed with the bang of a gavel (under the hammer). It was signed into law 12 days later by the governor. </div>
<div>(Sounds eerily similar to the heinous process that got us the Expedited Wind Act more than a decade earlier, huh?)</div>
<div>As of May, the PUC has received all the bids for a huge transmission line(s) and thousands of MW of renewable generation. PUC Commissioners are deliberating now, and awards will be made by year end.</div>
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<div>None of the “interested parties” whose hair was on fire about the Hydro Quebec / NECEC transmission line have ever uttered a peep about this boondoggle, which could sully the vistas in Baxter, which could extend west across the Allagash, St. John and Deboullie wilderness regions, and which will have an environmental impact exponentially higher than the little but mighty power line that NECEC proposed. Not to mention the high quality of dispatchable hydro power vs. stochastic wind/solar.</div>Like Sweeping Dirt Under the Rugtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-03-20:4401701:BlogPost:2373722022-03-20T00:47:33.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Anyone truly interested in the environment should read this excellent article.</p>
<p>And ask, "when all those non-recyclable turbine blades disintegrate, get replaced and decommissioned, where will the battleship-sized fiberglass-composite corpses be laid to rest?…</p>
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<p>Anyone truly interested in the environment should read this excellent article.</p>
<p>And ask, "when all those non-recyclable turbine blades disintegrate, get replaced and decommissioned, where will the battleship-sized fiberglass-composite corpses be laid to rest?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-03-18/maines-landfill-is-meant-for-in-state-waste-heres-how-massachusetts-and-nh-are-filling-it-up">https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-03-18/maines-landfill-is-meant-for-in-state-waste-heres-how-massachusetts-and-nh-are-filling-it-up</a></p>
<p>Maine does not do much landfilling any more. Most of our waste goes to trash-to-energy incinerators, where renewable electricity is generated. But Old Town and Norridgewock still take a lot of solid waste -- and they simply bury it.</p>
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<p></p>Give Us More of Your Money, So We can Give You Back Some of the Money We Already Tooktag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-03-09:4401701:BlogPost:2368362022-03-09T22:23:18.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Love the photo here.</p>
<p><img class="hashed-image image" src="https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/me_energy-bill_030922"></img></p>
<p>Grimly concerned Legislators at a press conference/photo op.</p>
<p>Responding to the proverbial fire alarm, wailing "The people need to think we're DOING something!"</p>
<p>Best thing they could do is stay out of energy policy.…</p>
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<p>Love the photo here.</p>
<p><img src="https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/me_energy-bill_030922" class="hashed-image image"/></p>
<p>Grimly concerned Legislators at a press conference/photo op.</p>
<p>Responding to the proverbial fire alarm, wailing "The people need to think we're DOING something!"</p>
<p>Best thing they could do is stay out of energy policy.</p>
<p><a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/news/2022/03/09/dems-pitch-energy-bills">https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/news/2022/03/09/dems-pitch-energy-bills</a></p>
<p></p>Call for a Generac Quote, Wait til Next Yeartag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-02-12:4401701:BlogPost:2350832022-02-12T02:57:02.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Robert Bryce again succinctly identifies an energy malfunction in America. </p>
<p>The grid is failing because of public policy choices.</p>
<p>If you aren't rich, you probably don't have a generator.</p>
<p>If you don't have a generator, you're stuck.…</p>
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<p>Robert Bryce again succinctly identifies an energy malfunction in America. </p>
<p>The grid is failing because of public policy choices.</p>
<p>If you aren't rich, you probably don't have a generator.</p>
<p>If you don't have a generator, you're stuck.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/02/10/whats-good-for-generac-is-bad-for-america/?sh=18e0ed516fb6">https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/02/10/whats-good-for-generac-is-bad-for-america/?sh=18e0ed516fb6</a></p>
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<p></p>New Maine Public Advocate Picks Up Where Predecessors Left Offtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-02-10:4401701:BlogPost:2353452022-02-10T00:22:39.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Maine's Public Advocate (PA) has one mission: fight like hell for electric ratepayers.</p>
<p>The ratepayer watchdog is appointed by the governor and approved by the legislature, but he (or she) has a term that does not run concurrent with the governor. The PA is intended to have one master: us.</p>
<p>Bill Harwood was sworn in last week as the latest PA. Based on this…</p>
<p>Maine's Public Advocate (PA) has one mission: fight like hell for electric ratepayers.</p>
<p>The ratepayer watchdog is appointed by the governor and approved by the legislature, but he (or she) has a term that does not run concurrent with the governor. The PA is intended to have one master: us.</p>
<p>Bill Harwood was sworn in last week as the latest PA. Based on this <a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/mills-administration-public-advocate-submit-plan-offer-utility-bill-credit-90000-low-income" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the governor's office, Mr. Harwood has picked up where the last few guys left off; making excuses, glossing over hard truths, and promoting gimmicky band aids instead of raising hell for us.</p>
<p>Mr. Harwood had a distinguished career practicing utilities law at Verrill Dana (yes, down the hall from Juliette Browne).</p>
<p><strong>As he settles into his new office, maybe it's time citizens greet him with some correspondence demanding that he actually do the job he was hired to do. </strong></p>
<p>This month CMP 88% and Versant 81% began charging their increased rates. What is Harwood doing? Revving up the govt cheese truck.</p>
<p>For the last decade Maine has hovered around 12th place in the nation for worst electricity rates. With these increases we are surely in the top 10, and knocking on the door of top 5. </p>
<p>Has any Public Advocate since Baldacci's Wind Rush ever once stood up for ratepayers and at least WARNED policymakers that the light bills are going to go up? Remember the Maine Power Reliability Project, the "necessary" transmission upgrade that all the insiders knew was the getaway car for Kurt Adams' wind heist? </p>
<p>And all the mandated power purchase agreements forced upon CMP, Bangor Hydro, Versant, et al?</p>
<p>The answer is no. The Public Advocates who predated Harwood all sat back and watched the train wreck.</p>
<p>Now the PUC is following the Legislature's directive as it takes bids to carpet bomb Northern Maine with wind and solar. What will Harwood do? Say?</p>
<p>Solar "farms" are sprouting like dandelions all over Maine, thanks to new laws passed in the last two years. What will Harwood do? Say?</p>
<p>Please write to the new Public Advocate, welcoming him to his new job. Tell him that you expect him (unlike his predecessors) to do it. </p>
<p>william.harwood@maine.gov</p>
<p>opa.admin@maine.gov</p>A Good Post-Mortem on November's Corridor Debacletag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-01-20:4401701:BlogPost:2338292022-01-20T01:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Gotta love nuclear power. But NextEra also owns gas and oil generation in addition to Seabrook. They all hate Canadian Hydropower. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/war-between-energy-titans-could-shape-new-england-climate/">https://www.eenews.net/articles/war-between-energy-titans-could-shape-new-england-climate/</a></p>
<p>....For five years, two of the world’s largest power companies have been locked in an all-out battle over the future of New England’s electric grid. The…</p>
<p>Gotta love nuclear power. But NextEra also owns gas and oil generation in addition to Seabrook. They all hate Canadian Hydropower. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/war-between-energy-titans-could-shape-new-england-climate/">https://www.eenews.net/articles/war-between-energy-titans-could-shape-new-england-climate/</a></p>
<p>....For five years, two of the world’s largest power companies have been locked in an all-out battle over the future of New England’s electric grid. The outcome could determine the fate of the region’s decarbonization efforts for decades.</p>
<p>The fight pits Avangrid Inc., a subsidiary of the Spanish power giant Iberdrola, versus NextEra Energy Inc., the most valuable power company in America. It effectively is a contest between hydro power — generated by dams in Quebec and carried on a 146-mile transmission line built by Avangrid across Maine — versus a large nuclear plant operated in New Hampshire by NextEra.</p>
<p>The two companies have poured tens of millions of dollars into a ballot referendum in Maine, waged legal battles in two state supreme courts and are engaged in an ongoing struggle at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</p>
<p>Only one low-carbon resource may survive....</p>
<p></p>Same Snake, Different Oiltag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-01-04:4401701:BlogPost:2328342022-01-04T19:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Wind Warriors will remember the circus that was Eolian Renewables. </p>
<p>Eolian was a zero-experience fly by night barnstorming rent seeking outfit, led by ringleader and chief snake oil salesman Jack Kenworthy. </p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9981946877?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9981946877?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
<p>The tenacious towns of Orland and Frankfort finally sent the would-be wind developer scurrying away, but it took several divisive…</p>
<p>Wind Warriors will remember the circus that was Eolian Renewables. </p>
<p>Eolian was a zero-experience fly by night barnstorming rent seeking outfit, led by ringleader and chief snake oil salesman Jack Kenworthy. </p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9981946877?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9981946877?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>The tenacious towns of Orland and Frankfort finally sent the would-be wind developer scurrying away, but it took several divisive years - and a scorched earth - for the guy to get the message and finally end the nightmare. </p>
<p>Well Jack Kenworthy is back in Maine. Eolian is now a new Delaware shell LLC called Walden Green Energy, and last year they won a few solar bids in the latest Maine RPS RFP. His new snake oil: solar. His new target: Lovell.</p>
<p>Last month, after two years of behind the scenes discussion with town officials, Walden dropped off a 600 page application at the Maine DEP and at Lovell Town Hall. Walden wants to build a 180 acre, 90,000 panel, 35 MW grid scale solar "farm" in Lovell, which sits in the shadow of the White Mountains in Western Oxford County. Lovell is home to one of Maine's most picturesque and pristine water bodies: Kezar Lake. It is also home to some of the mountain best scenic vistas in Maine. Vistas that will be horribly fouled by the 10,000 tree clearcut and the sprawling solar arrays.</p>
<p>You know the formula. Exparte' communications, payola, save the planet promises, sprinkling community benefit fairy dust around town, scholarships, cash, a new fire truck...</p>
<p>Until the application recently hit town hall, nobody knew this was in the works. Nobody, that is, except the dozen or so landowners who'd already signed on the dotted line to lease their acreage and sell out their town for a few sheckels. Some of these landowners happen to be family of selectmen...you know the drill. </p>
<p>The locals have quickly formed a group called Our Eden Association. They tried to get smart in a hurry over the holidays, before the application is "accepted as complete." Of course their summer folks are gone. They immediately called for a solar moratorium, but the Planning Board voted it down just before Christmas. Why? The affable and fast talking baby faced Kenworthy convinced them that their telecommunications ordinance was perfectly adequate zoning for an industrial solar project more than double the size of Maine Mall with all its buildings and asphalt. He had the planning board eating out of his hand.</p>
<p>Hearing community outrage, the selectmen have just asked for a January 25 "Special Town Meeting" where a moratorium can be discussed and voted. Meanwhile Our Eden is scrambling to educate the 1100 voters in town about the potential for this green project to forever hijack, dominate and transform the character of their lovely community. Last night was the "science fair" Public (Dis) Informational Meeting that the DEP requires. Many residents are still charmed by Kenworthy and his promises, but Our Eden is making headway with time running short.</p>
<p>If they lose the moratorium vote on January 25, the application will soon be accepted as complete, and they will almost certainly be forced to approve a massive project that has no business being approved -- all because there is no solar zoning and some people love the cash and the planet saving.</p>
<p>Our Eden is not anti-solar. They actually want an ordinance that allows and <em>encourages</em> residential and mid scale solar installations, like on a school roof, etc. But Lovell is no place for a major industrial project, so they want to write appropriate zoning. There is boilerplate model ordinance language out there, and many unwitting towns have cut/pasted that language, which was written by a collaboration of NRCM, Audubon, and the lobbying group Maine Renewable Energy Association. That model language is inadequate, but there are many good protective solar ordinances out there, just like the hundred or so protective wind ordinances that Maine towns wrote in response to the Wind Rush. </p>
<p>Please look up a Facebook page and feel free to jump in. Let them know how this plays out if they don't protect their town. Offer them your knowledge and support, and do it respectfully.</p>
<p>The Facebook page is simply called "Kezar Lake" and for years it has been a page where folks posted photos of sunsets and eagles. It is now a town square where "the solar farm" is a hot topic. There are trolls. This is a classic "Emperor's New Clothes" story and it's happening fast.</p>
<p>If you can, please jump in and say what you can to point out the naked emperor, so these folks know to do the right thing on January 25: Issue a moratorium, then wrote a good protective ordinance.</p>
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<p> </p>These Maine Legislators Are Idiotstag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-11-24:4401701:BlogPost:2290992021-11-24T00:48:41.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>They affirmatively tell Massachusetts that they'd rather have a power line as big as NECEC, PLUS a thousand 50-story wind turbines in "pristine Maine Wilderness" that only work 2 days out of 7. </p>
<p>Sorry to use such a harsh term as "idiots" but that's the only word that fits. …</p>
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<p>They affirmatively tell Massachusetts that they'd rather have a power line as big as NECEC, PLUS a thousand 50-story wind turbines in "pristine Maine Wilderness" that only work 2 days out of 7. </p>
<p>Sorry to use such a harsh term as "idiots" but that's the only word that fits. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2021/11/23/maine-lawmakers-urge-massachusetts-governor-to-cancel-power-line-contract/">https://www.pressherald.com/2021/11/23/maine-lawmakers-urge-massachusetts-governor-to-cancel-power-line-contract/</a></p>Huge Clean Energy RFP Issued Today by Maine PUCtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-11-16:4401701:BlogPost:2282052021-11-16T19:49:52.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;">And this one is a double-wammy!</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Links provided within this post</span></em></p>
<p>Wind developers are high-fiving today. An RFP was issued this morning by the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a legislature-mandated transmission corridor that seeks to bridge the gap between Aroostook and the New England grid. While this is momentous, it’s not merely another transmission corridor case. This 12 month RFP…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;">And this one is a double-wammy!</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Links provided within this post</span></em></p>
<p>Wind developers are high-fiving today. An RFP was issued this morning by the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a legislature-mandated transmission corridor that seeks to bridge the gap between Aroostook and the New England grid. While this is momentous, it’s not merely another transmission corridor case. This 12 month RFP is the cake AND the frosting too, because it also requests proposals for renewable generation in Aroostook.</p>
<p>Even as the CMP/NECEC war rages on, this is one to monitor. </p>
<p>The only scalable mountain wind power sites remaining in Maine are Downeast and Upnorth, especially Aroostook and upper Somerset Counties. Between the Expedited Area opt-outs and the bevy of local wind ordinances, Big Wind has few options south of Kibby. This is made even more fraught because folks in the Kibby/Jackman/Forks/Canada Highway region are clearly on record after their tenacious 2021 defense of their "pristine woods" against the CMP/NECEC corridor. There might be an opportunity or two for small boutiquey projects like the new one in Roxbury, but for the most part, Western Maine is played out. </p>
<p>Aroostook is the real frontier. Once the long-awaited transmission connection is in place, if the industry wants, they could throw up turbines not only west of Route 1, but west of Route 11, west of the Allagash, west of the St. John... all the way to the Canadian border... from Madawaska and Fort Kent down through Clayton Lake, Daaquaam, Big Six, maybe as far as Hammond and Prentiss toward Boundary Bald Mountain. </p>
<p>There's nobody there to care, not even NRCM. The Telos, Reality, Oxbow, Saint Juste and Blanchette Roads are all perfect pathways for turbines. If the New England states - including Maine – continue to seek clean energy procurements, this is where big wind can/will go big. (This also explains why Big Wind joined Oil and Natural Gas generation plants, NRCM, et al in the anti- NECEC coalition.)</p>
<p>EDP and others have plans (with land leases) for 1400 to 2000 MW in The County. There's enough space up there for 3000 MW or more. The (redacted) record in the MPRP more than a decade ago revealed the mammoth plans that First Wind and its insidious revenant descendants had/have for Northern Maine. The Oakfield project pretty much tapped out Northern Maine. Big Solar is also interested. For a decade they've all been losing bids in southern New England clean energy procurement RFPs because of their inability to deliver.</p>
<p>As we say, "if wind energy is the heist, transmission is the getaway car." They've all been waiting and pushing for a way to get the electricity to market, and now it's finally happening. </p>
<p>How is it happening? Look to Augusta.</p>
<p>Senate President Troy Jackson can get pretty much anything he wants written into law. His recently-enacted bill (<a href="http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0563&item=5&snum=130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LD 1710, An Act To Require Prompt and Effective Use of the Renewable Energy Resources of Northern Maine</a>) was no less significant than the original heinous Wind Act itself. And unlike CMP’s NECEC, which legislators of both parties overwhelmingly oppose, Jackson's corridor (at least to-date) is a slam dunk created/enabled by sycophantic legislators.</p>
<p>Ask yourself how this looks process familiar:</p>
<p>Jackson’s after-deadline "emergency" bill (the normal deadline to submit bills was back in December) was printed and released to the public on Friday May 14, a few weeks before 2021 adjournment. Because committees were done with their work and Augusta was scrambling to wrap up its remaining business for the year, they waived the 2-week public hearing notice period. The Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee (EUT) public hearing was two business days later, on Tuesday May 18. It gets better: it passed the EUT committee with only one NO vote (Representative Wadsworth). When the EUT committee reported the bill out to the legislature, the legislation leapfrogged the perennial late-session log jam of hundreds of bills, and within 24 hours it sailed through the House and Senate without a word of debate, or a single recorded vote. Unanimous. Under the hammer. Nothing to see here folks. </p>
<p>Starting today, the PUC case is open for bids and public comments.</p>
<p>Here is the link to view the new <a href="https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/CaseMaster.aspx?CaseNumber=2021-00369&FRM=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Case File</a></p>
<p><span><a href="https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Comments/PublicComments.aspx?CaseNumber=2021-00369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here is the link</a> where you can submit comments and ask to be on the email notice list.</span></p>
<p><span>For details about how this case arose, how it will quickly proceed, and how much discretion the PUC is given, you should read this <a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdv4yfs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Notice of Inquiry</a> the PUC sent out a few months ago.</span></p>
<p><span>For a truly startling glimpse at how much energy infrastructure could be coming to Maine, peruse the <a href="https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/CaseMaster.aspx?CaseNumber=2021-00223&FRM=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32 interested party responses</a> to the above Notice.</span></p>Research Research Researchtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-10-01:4401701:BlogPost:2242702021-10-01T22:41:20.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>While offshore wind has been working (part time) for many years, Maine continues to overthink how to make it work.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governors-energy-office-submits-federal-lease-application-small-scale-floating-offshore-wind">https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governors-energy-office-submits-federal-lease-application-small-scale-floating-offshore-wind</a></p>
<p>Readers Digest version: erect your turbines and wait for the wind to…</p>
<p>While offshore wind has been working (part time) for many years, Maine continues to overthink how to make it work.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governors-energy-office-submits-federal-lease-application-small-scale-floating-offshore-wind">https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governors-energy-office-submits-federal-lease-application-small-scale-floating-offshore-wind</a></p>
<p>Readers Digest version: erect your turbines and wait for the wind to blow.</p>
<p>Occasional results are guaranteed.</p>
<p>Oh, and don't ask about the cost.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the paralysis by analysis has given new life to onshore wind, which had been becalmed. Just look at Senator Troy Jackson's plan to pave over Northern Maine with newer-bigger turbines as it plays out now in the PUC. </p>Rural Mainers Finally Count?tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-06-19:4401701:BlogPost:2191092021-06-19T14:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Governor Mills has signed a bill that should have been included in the Expedited Wind Act over a decade ago.</p>
<h2 class="ldTitle">An Act To Require Consideration of Climate Impacts by the Public Utilities Commission and To Incorporate Equity Considerations in Decision Making by State Agencies</h2>
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<p>The new law is intended to balance the power between energy developers and regular citizens who are essentially defenseless. "Equity" is a popular word these days, but it hasn't…</p>
<p>Governor Mills has signed a bill that should have been included in the Expedited Wind Act over a decade ago.</p>
<h2 class="ldTitle">An Act To Require Consideration of Climate Impacts by the Public Utilities Commission and To Incorporate Equity Considerations in Decision Making by State Agencies</h2>
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<p>The new law is intended to balance the power between energy developers and regular citizens who are essentially defenseless. "Equity" is a popular word these days, but it hasn't existed since the Expedited Wind Law was enacted.</p>
<p>Think rural manners, residents and camp owners in the Unorganized Territory, citizens of rural towns whose selectmen are in the bag...</p>
<p>Time will tell if this is just feel-good legislation or it actually makes a difference.</p>
<p>Hannah Pingree ➡️ will take public input as she figures out how to make "equity" a consideration in proceedings at the DEP, PUC, etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1251&item=2&snum=130">http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1251&item=2&snum=130</a></p>Another Good Piece by Robert Brycetag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-12-28:4401701:BlogPost:2022472020-12-28T16:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>250 times more tax credit than nuclear gets, although nuclear produces five times more clean energy.</p>
<p>Funny how Congress called it the "Investment" tax credit. Anyone who puts (our) money in an "investment" that has such a backward ROI isn't a very good investor. …</p>
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<p>250 times more tax credit than nuclear gets, although nuclear produces five times more clean energy.</p>
<p>Funny how Congress called it the "Investment" tax credit. Anyone who puts (our) money in an "investment" that has such a backward ROI isn't a very good investor. </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/12/27/why-is-solar-energy-getting-250-times-more-in-federal-tax-credits-than-nuclear/?sh=71a671f821cf">https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/12/27/why-is-solar-energy-getting-250-times-more-in-federal-tax-credits-than-nuclear/?sh=71a671f821cf</a></p>
<p></p>Informative Article on Nuclear Powertag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-10-29:4401701:BlogPost:2002852020-10-29T17:55:45.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Bill Gates continues to advocate for clean energy.</p>
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<p><a href="https://energycentral.com/c/ec/bill-gates-nuclear-option?utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=TEC&utm_content=&utm_source=2020_10_23">https://energycentral.com/c/ec/bill-gates-nuclear-option?utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=TEC&utm_content=&utm_source=2020_10_23</a></p>
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<p>Bill Gates continues to advocate for clean energy.</p>
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<p><a href="https://energycentral.com/c/ec/bill-gates-nuclear-option?utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=TEC&utm_content=&utm_source=2020_10_23">https://energycentral.com/c/ec/bill-gates-nuclear-option?utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=TEC&utm_content=&utm_source=2020_10_23</a></p>
<p></p>Comment Opportunity Today - Governor's Energy Officetag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-09-11:4401701:BlogPost:1896002020-09-11T17:36:45.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
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<p>Deadline today. Take the survey.</p>
<p>Well-informed, empirical, non-unicorn comments are needed:</p>
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<p><span>September 11, 2020</span></p>
<p><font color="#222222">The Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) and Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) are required to develop a plan to identify pathways and strategies for advancing Maine’s clean energy economy (ie: education, training, workforce, etc). The GEO and GOPIF want to hear directly…</font></p>
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<p>Deadline today. Take the survey.</p>
<p>Well-informed, empirical, non-unicorn comments are needed:</p>
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<p><span>September 11, 2020</span></p>
<p><font color="#222222">The Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) and Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) are required to develop a plan to identify pathways and strategies for advancing Maine’s clean energy economy (ie: education, training, workforce, etc). The GEO and GOPIF want to hear directly from your company/organization as Maine works to meet our energy and climate goals. Your responses to this survey are vital to this effort and<strong> <font color="#FF0000">responses are due TODAY, Friday September 11<sup>th</sup>.</font></strong> This information will inform this plan as well as <a href="https://e2tech.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=XQK9r%2fBSeQbyxMk10lQLjYiTzjBu7G77Mt0Re1p5%2bYXiC0wpQMnN0rrCLg2Nt8Drr9x5x8b7LgX95W39b0wm9zB3wftC%2fkKla4jZNMcmEQ0%3d"><font color="#1155CC">Maine Climate Council</font></a> efforts.</font></p>
<div><font color="#222222"> </font><strong>Survey Link: </strong><a href="https://e2tech.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=q2W%2byzeF91eu9dTuydyWWj84%2bRGrt7hxygfCPj212HBYKMoM2xSNmTQWKxNBCwhyXgO16wBGR2Da13jrYj%2fQCMjACVK4K3yDlQP1%2b7inxSU%3d"><font color="#1155CC">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CleanEnergyEconomy</font></a></div>
<div><font color="#222222"> </font></div>Urgent Deadline August 22tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-08-21:4401701:BlogPost:1890022020-08-21T20:07:15.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p><strong>The Maine Climate Council is taking suggestions.</strong></p>
<p>Take their survey before end of the day Saturday, August 22.</p>
<p>They actually are allowing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">written</span> replies to questions. They need a good dose of reality (the kind of thoughtful, fact-based info found right here on the Citizens Task Force Blog) before they start making their policy recommendations to the governor and legislature. Without our critical thinking, they…</p>
<p><strong>The Maine Climate Council is taking suggestions.</strong></p>
<p>Take their survey before end of the day Saturday, August 22.</p>
<p>They actually are allowing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">written</span> replies to questions. They need a good dose of reality (the kind of thoughtful, fact-based info found right here on the Citizens Task Force Blog) before they start making their policy recommendations to the governor and legislature. Without our critical thinking, they are apt to do the lemming march, and recommend some sort of special law to expedite windmills or some silly such thing.</p>
<p>They have laid out several strategies for our comment. I was most interested in the Energy Strategy.</p>
<p>First, read their "Strategies" here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://climatecouncil.maine.gov/strategies">https://climatecouncil.maine.gov/strategies</a></p>
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<p>Then take the survey here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MCCenergy">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MCCenergy</a></p>
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<p>It takes only a few minutes. Do it before the deadline. Be credible, factual, focused. Don't waste your time denying climate change; they aren't going to listen. If their goals are to reduce CO2, tell them how to do it without ruining the environment or the economy. Let them know that there are critical thinking environmentalists out here, and the Climate Council better not try to slip another unicorn & lollipop report onto legislators' desks.</p>
<p>Agree with me or not, here were my replies, for what they are worth:</p>
<div><em>1. Maine’s various energy sectors are diverse: Transportation sector is very dirty, and emits 8 times more CO2 than electricity sector, which is already 2nd cleanest in the US. Don’t fix what ain’t broke.</em></div>
<p><em>2. Clean energy is a broad term: as above, break down the various energy sectors. Focus on what's doable and what provides ROI, which is heating and transport. The grid is fine; leave it alone. Electricity is fine; leave it alone. If electrification is going to happen, then maybe the 80% of Maine electricity generating capacity currently idle can be brought out of mothballs. If we need additional clean electricity, keep pursuing the "low-impact/high benefit" Quebec connections. Stop ruining the countryside with "high impact/low benefit" mountaintop wind projects. Consider a long term plan to get back into nuclear, which is essential if we want to electrify our way out of CO2 emissions. In a nutshell, go where the CO2 is: heating and transport. Bet the farm on heat pump and EV proliferation. Don't worry about subsidizing charging stations, as those will happen organically. Much more important and effective to reduce barriers to entry with rebates, subsidies, tax credits, etc. </em></p>
<div><em>3. I would like to drive an EV, install solar panels, and use additional heat pumps (I have one), but they are all too expensive to buy. I conserve reasonably, but a low energy standard is tantamount to a low standard of living. Don't turn Maine into a 3rd world state.</em></div>
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<p></p>Comment Opportunity - Big Wind Wakes from Hibernationtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-04-08:4401701:BlogPost:1846202020-04-08T02:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Here they go again. Just when you thought Big Wind had thrown in the towel (in Maine). </p>
<p>Just when you thought they can no longer compete.</p>
<p>Just when everybody and his uncle is making more sensible energy decisions. </p>
<p>Big Wind is Back in Maine.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4356628359?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4356628359?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
<p>Despite their insidious lobbying efforts, Big Wind's PTC got left out of the…</p>
<p>Here they go again. Just when you thought Big Wind had thrown in the towel (in Maine). </p>
<p>Just when you thought they can no longer compete.</p>
<p>Just when everybody and his uncle is making more sensible energy decisions. </p>
<p>Big Wind is Back in Maine.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4356628359?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4356628359?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>Despite their insidious lobbying efforts, Big Wind's PTC got left out of the Covid-19 stimulus package. Electricity prices are at historic lows. New England States have been choosing nuclear, big hydro, and offshore wind to meet their clean energy mandates. There's a glut of electricity generation collecting capacity payments instead of generating electricity. But the last legislature extended the Renewable Portfolio mandate, essentially ordering the PUC to sign contracts that force us ratepayers to buy unnessecarry, unaffordable, unsustainable electricity so that Maine can stop climate change.</p>
<p>Maine's electricity is among the cleanest in the nation. It is a grain of sand on the beach of climate change. Heating and transportation emit 90% of Maine's CO2, while electricity emits 8%. Maine's ENTIRE electricity sector emits just over 1 million metric tons into a global atmosphere that gets 36,000 million metric tons of CO2. That means Maine owns a 4/10,000ths of one percent share, so Maine is under intense pressure to save the world, right? </p>
<p>Now comes Number Nine Wind "Farm." Looking for special treatment (surprised?).</p>
<p>All the Aroostook countryside north of Baxter Park -- from Route 1 westward through the Allagash and the St. John valley to the Canadian border at Daquaam -- it's all being targeted by Big Wind. Again. </p>
<p>Number Nine is a 600 to 800 megawatt project that would essentially blow away Aroostook County. it's between 10 and 20 Mars Hills. Number Nine has languished in failure for several years for two reasons:</p>
<div class="">1. It cannot compete, as evidenced by its many failed bids into various RFPs in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.</div>
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<div class="">2. A transmission “gap” of about 50 miles exisits between the Aroostook grid and the ISO-New England grid. An expensive power line upgrade or “bridge” would be needed from Aroostook down to the Lincoln area. </div>
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<div class="">Now MREA and the would-be developers of Number Nine are asking the PUC to do them a favor so that the PTC can be exploited and so that the critical mass of Number Nine (an obscene 600 to 800 MW just north of Baxter Park and just east of the Allagash) can gain an advantage. There could be even more wind developers hiding in Aroostook’s shadows. They are touting jobs, of course. Every Aroostook legislator was asked (paid) by MREA's Jerry Paine to sign a letter of support, and they dutifully did. </div>
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<div class="">If you want to get really upset, you can peruse the filings tab and the comments tab submitted by various parties asking the PUC to bend the rules so that Maine can get more wind. The Brookfield and Friends of Maine's Mountains comments are particularly poignant. But as you will see, most all the submissions are in favor. <a href="https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/CaseMaster.aspx?CaseNumber=2020-00104" class="">Click here</a> </div>
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<p><span>To submit your own comment, </span><a href="https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Comments/CaseNumberSearch.aspx" class="">click here</a><span> and when prompted, enter case number 2020-00104.</span></p>
<div class="">You can comment in the provided dialogue box, or if your comment is more than 250 words, you can attach a PDF document. Phil Bartlett, one of the Wind Act’s architects, is now Chairman of the PUC. This is a chance to upbraid him for the heinous and brainless thing he did to Maine, as well as a chance for him to redeem himself. </div>
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<div class="">Make no mistake, the PUC is being told by the legislature to increase the RPS. The PUC could do that using existing resources, and maybe even procuring offshore wind, But they are now being asked by the Wind Lobby to stretch the rules for Big Wind generally, and for Number Nine specifically.</div>
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<div class="">Comment strongly and loudly, wind warriors. Maine is done with Big Wind. Lesson learned. No more special treatment.</div>Skullduggery in Augusta this Morningtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-03-17:4401701:BlogPost:1836232020-03-17T15:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4134174372?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank">NECECkiller.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p><span>As legislators got to their desks an hour ago, they received a piece of legislation which would <span style="text-decoration: underline;">order</span> the PUC to reverse its decision that granted a “certificate” to the NECEC. </span></p>
<p><span>This is even more brazen than the Wind Act.</span></p>
<div>Never mind…</div>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4134174372?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NECECkiller.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p><span>As legislators got to their desks an hour ago, they received a piece of legislation which would <span style="text-decoration: underline;">order</span> the PUC to reverse its decision that granted a “certificate” to the NECEC. </span></p>
<p><span>This is even more brazen than the Wind Act.</span></p>
<div>Never mind that this year's entire session is devoted to emergency bills.</div>
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<div>Never mind that today’s session is the last of the year.</div>
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<div>Never mind that they are meeting today to pass the supplemental budget and set in motion some state pandemic responses.</div>
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<div>Never mind that this legislation will not go to a committee and will not get a public hearing. </div>
<div>Never mind that the PUC adjudicated the case over two years, with hundreds of thousands of documents, evidence, expert witnesses, cross exam, rebuttal, etc.</div>
<div>Never mind that none of the parties unhappy with the PUC decision chose to appeal it.</div>
<div>It will be interesting to see how all those legislators vote. Many of those legislators still parrot the NRCM wail that the last governor “interfered" with the PUC on the Statoil boondoggle (which would have us today paying 25 cents / kwh while the wholesale market price is 2.5 cents).</div>
<div><a href="http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=2164&snum=129" class="">http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=2164&snum=129</a><br class=""/><div class=""><div class=""></div>
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</div>So much more energy, and more electricity. Impossible without nukes at the very least.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-10-01:4401701:BlogPost:1750572019-10-01T18:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>We were taught in grade school (and we laughed at) how primitive people thought the earth was flat until a bold Italian sailor proved otherwise. Today's primitive thinkers want a rapidly developing world to reach carbon neutrality using tools the equivalent of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria...</p>
<p>This report is a stunner. If the EIA is even close to correct in this prognostication, and if fossil fuels are somehow off the table, how can civilization advance? </p>
<p>Lots of…</p>
<p>We were taught in grade school (and we laughed at) how primitive people thought the earth was flat until a bold Italian sailor proved otherwise. Today's primitive thinkers want a rapidly developing world to reach carbon neutrality using tools the equivalent of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria...</p>
<p>This report is a stunner. If the EIA is even close to correct in this prognostication, and if fossil fuels are somehow off the table, how can civilization advance? </p>
<p>Lots of self-proclaimed energy experts (all too frequently 16 year old experts) are insisting that we "need to do something" in ten years to get off fossil fuels.</p>
<p>Is anyone "doing something" about building the viable alternatives for all those BTUs? </p>
<p>Maybe we need an "Expedited Nuclear Act" if we have a remote chance of answering the challenge. </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.hydroreview.com/2019/09/24/eia-projects-nearly-50-growth-in-world-energy-usage-by-2050-led-by-asia/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hydro_weekly_newsletter&utm_source=enl&utm_content=2019-10-01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.hydroreview.com/2019/09/24/eia-projects-nearly-50-growth-in-world-energy-usage-by-2050-led-by-asia/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hydro_weekly_newsletter&utm_source=enl&utm_content=2019-10-01</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3639457477?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3639457477?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-left"/></a></p>AMC Now Full Members of the AECtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-06-27:4401701:BlogPost:1699932019-06-27T15:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>When you click on the below link you'll see in the top picture a gathering of interested parties at the RPS/Climate change bill-signing.</p>
<p>That's Beth O'Hearn (teal dress) from League of Conservation Voters, <span>which is the overarching organization for the Airhead Enviro Cabal (LCV, NRCM, Sierra, Audubon, Environment Maine, et al).</span> Over her shoulder in Maroon/white is Katelyn Bernard, the lobbyist for the Appalachian Mountain Club, <span>which for a few years had…</span></p>
<p>When you click on the below link you'll see in the top picture a gathering of interested parties at the RPS/Climate change bill-signing.</p>
<p>That's Beth O'Hearn (teal dress) from League of Conservation Voters, <span>which is the overarching organization for the Airhead Enviro Cabal (LCV, NRCM, Sierra, Audubon, Environment Maine, et al).</span> Over her shoulder in Maroon/white is Katelyn Bernard, the lobbyist for the Appalachian Mountain Club, <span>which for a few years had the integrity to dabble in the anti-wind cause, although only tepidly and sporadically. AMC of course were lead opponents of Northern Pass. For the last two years AMC have become complete members of the AEC, participating lockstep in all the cabal's networking and lobbying. </span></p>
<p><span>AMC is merely one more brainless monied enviro advocacy group, devoid of critical thinking and fortitude. OK, their hiking guide is a worthwhile book and their huts in the 100-Mile Wilderness are a neat thing for the Volvo-driving tea-sipping outdoors set. </span></p>
<p><span>Couple years ago AMC moved symbolically from Beacon Hill to Charlestown, which to some Back Bay folks is considered the North Woods. </span> </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-signs-major-renewable-energy-and-climate-change-bills-law-2019-06-26">https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-signs-major-renewable-energy-and-climate-change-bills-law-2019-06-26</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3137430471?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3137430471?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>DEP Recommends Permit for Weaver Windtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-05-11:4401701:BlogPost:1673922019-05-11T04:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
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<p>Very quietly, First Wind creeps back into Maine like Godzilla rose from the fetid lagoon.</p>
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<p>Let's hope it's the last wind project ever in Maine. </p>
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<p>Read the Draft Order here: …</p>
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<p>Very quietly, First Wind creeps back into Maine like Godzilla rose from the fetid lagoon.</p>
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<p>Let's hope it's the last wind project ever in Maine. </p>
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<p>Read the Draft Order here: </p>
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<p></p>Chance to Call Out Maine DEP on Landfilling Turbine Bladestag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-05-01:4401701:BlogPost:1669452019-05-01T21:27:13.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>On May 10 the Environment & Natural Resources Committee will take up a substantive bill that hopes to reform and update Maine's landfill policy, which is a very big duty of the Department of Environmental Protection. The bill is here: <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229262499?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank">LD%20112%20sponsors%20proposed%20amendment%20for%20PH.pdf</a></p>
<p>Earlier this year during the public hearing for the RoxWind…</p>
<p>On May 10 the Environment & Natural Resources Committee will take up a substantive bill that hopes to reform and update Maine's landfill policy, which is a very big duty of the Department of Environmental Protection. The bill is here: <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229262499?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LD%20112%20sponsors%20proposed%20amendment%20for%20PH.pdf</a></p>
<p>Earlier this year during the public hearing for the RoxWind project the intervenors made the case that the RoxWind decommissioning plan is woefully inadequate in that it overestimates scrap redemption values, underestimates material handling/deconstruction costs, and makes no provisions for waste disposal. The DEP has not made a decision yet. The intervenor objection is here: </p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229266550?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Downes%20Testimony%20FMM%20RoxWind.pdf</a></p>
<p>There are 1200 composite fiberglass turbine blades in service currently in Maine. If offshore wind catches on, there will be lots more. Reports from Maine and around the world say that these blades do not last. There is no viable recycling method for them. DEP anticipates they will be disposed in one of Maine's limited landfills. In March, Brad Blake brought the looming landfill crisis to legislators' attention as they were about to hold seminars on solid waste issues/policies. His letter is here:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229268487?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blake%20ltr%20to%20ENR.pdf</a></p>
<p>The DEP issues regular reports about solid waste. They characterize different classes of waste, including "Special Waste," which requires special handling. As you can see in their planning documents, they're planning for cell phones and solar panels but they don't even have wind turbine blades on the radar:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229274343?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WGDCReport%202019%20final%20for%20submittal.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229275250?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019-SMM-PLAN-final-with-comments.pdf</a></p>
<p>Regarding fiberglass disposal, here is an excerpt from the RoxWind intervenor testimony. It is the section specifically about fiberglass: <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2229277071?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Excerpt%20from%20RoxWind%20Decommissioning%20Criticism.pdf</a></p>
<p>At the legislative hearing on May 10, might it make sense for the public to ask the committee and the DEP why they still have not addressed the overwhelming landfill crush posed by Maine's wind turbines? Maybe instruct DEP to do so immediately?</p>
<p>Perhaps someone on this page has the expertise to develop the case to be presented on May 10?</p>Claims of NECEC Scenic Impact Exaggeratedtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-27:4401701:BlogPost:1663482019-04-27T19:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>For dramatic effect, the opponents of the NECEC have been publishing scary stock photos of massive power lines from the midwest and elsewhere. As a result, most of the vocal-local opposition has been focused on scenic impact to Maine's wilderness. Here are some of their published photos, some provided to media outlets. </p>
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<p>For dramatic effect, the opponents of the NECEC have been publishing scary stock photos of massive power lines from the midwest and elsewhere. As a result, most of the vocal-local opposition has been focused on scenic impact to Maine's wilderness. Here are some of their published photos, some provided to media outlets. </p>
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<p>Hold on a minute. <a href="https://www.maine.gov/dep/ftp/projects/necec/applications/SiteLocation/Attachments/Attachment%201-%20Transmission%20Line%20Configuration%20Cross%20Sections.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This <strong>link</strong></a> shows that the proposed poles are only 100 feet tall, they are mono-poles, and almost all 800 of them are in existing corridors that already have transmission poles/lines. See here:</p>
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<p>Those vocal opponents never want to discuss that an equivalent amount of delivered-electricity using wind energy would require 20 Bingham wind projects (1000 turbines 480 feet tall) or 100 Mars Hill wind projects (2800 turbines 389 feet tall) PLUS GOBS OF TRANSMISSION. </p>
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<p></p>Otis Ordinance Vote Soontag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-21:4401701:BlogPost:1656652019-04-21T16:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p><a href="https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/featured/otis-weighs-wind-farm-ban/">https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/featured/otis-weighs-wind-farm-ban/</a></p>
<p>The headline calls it a "ban" but it is not. It, like over 100 other ordinances around Maine, is zoning written to regulate and protect a community from a gawdawful land use. The maximum height of 150 feet to top of blade pretty much kills any industrial wind project, which is a community's right. They are copying/pasting the…</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/featured/otis-weighs-wind-farm-ban/">https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/featured/otis-weighs-wind-farm-ban/</a></p>
<p>The headline calls it a "ban" but it is not. It, like over 100 other ordinances around Maine, is zoning written to regulate and protect a community from a gawdawful land use. The maximum height of 150 feet to top of blade pretty much kills any industrial wind project, which is a community's right. They are copying/pasting the ordinance from the neighboring town of Dedham. Imperfect, but effective...see it attached. </p>
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<p>The public hearing is tomorrow, April 22, and Town Meeting is May 11. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Crucial</span> that the supporters of the ordinance show up to Town Meeting. </p>
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<p>Also attached are maps of the <span>Clifton project - Silver Maple Wind Project - and the unnamed Otis/Clifton wind project. Hopefully if Otis adopts the new wind ordinance the unnamed Otis/Clifton project will be abandoned. Clifton is a lost cause, already, with the town in the pocket of wind developer Paul Fuller, so it's up to Otis to get this done. </span></p>
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<p></p>NRCM: Contact Candidates About Energy & Environmenttag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-10-17:4401701:BlogPost:1482452018-10-17T17:00:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
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<p><span>Gubernatorial candidates recently answered questions about climate change during a debate, but have you heard from candidates running for the Maine Legislature where they stand? What about candidates for Congress? There’s no better time to reach out to all of them, so please ask them.</span></p>
<p><span>Some people have asked us why we’re not just providing this information. Here’s why:</span></p>
<p><span>We don’t know where all the candidates stand, and communicating with all of your candidates lets you hear directly from them about their positions and plans. Plus, it allows you to ask the questions you want answered, and it offers a great way for you to develop a relationship with those who may represent you in Augusta.</span></p>
<p><span>So, if you haven’t already, <strong>here are some questions we encourage you to ask your candidates:</strong></span></p>
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<li><span>Do you accept the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is having significant negative impacts on our climate and oceans?</span></li>
<li><span>What’s your plan for reducing climate-changing pollution?</span></li>
<li><span>What’s your plan for making Maine businesses and homes more energy efficient?</span></li>
<li><span>What clean energy policies will you promote if elected?</span></li>
<li><span>What will you do to help promote clean energy jobs in Maine?</span></li>
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<p><span>If you have other questions, you should ask those, too. You can do so at candidate forums, meet-and-greets, or by reaching out to your candidates individually. You can find out who those candidates are by contacting your city or town clerk. They can even send you a sample ballot via mail or email.</span></p>
<p><span>We hope you will take the time to learn more about those who are seeking to represent you in Augusta and in Congress, too.</span></p>
<p><span>Sincerely,</span></p>
<p><span>Sophie Janeway<br/>NRCM Climate and Clean Energy Outreach Coordinator</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561564540?profile=original" target="_self">Reply%20of%20NextEra%20Energy%20Resources%2C%20LLC%20to%20E%20lectric%20Distribution%20Companies%E2%80%99%20Response.pdf</a></p>
<p>While the CMP/HQ 1200 MW HVDC line is seeking approvals at the Maine DEP and PUC, it is also seeking approval of a power purchase agreement at the Massachusetts DPU (the equivalent of our PUC). This attachment explains that if the CMP/HQ project is built, it…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561564540?profile=original" target="_self">Reply%20of%20NextEra%20Energy%20Resources%2C%20LLC%20to%20E%20lectric%20Distribution%20Companies%E2%80%99%20Response.pdf</a></p>
<p>While the CMP/HQ 1200 MW HVDC line is seeking approvals at the Maine DEP and PUC, it is also seeking approval of a power purchase agreement at the Massachusetts DPU (the equivalent of our PUC). This attachment explains that if the CMP/HQ project is built, it will "foreclose" upon Western Maine hosting loads of wind turbines built by NextEra. And this is just one of many wind developers that are opposed to the project. </p>
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<p><em>Further ... NextEra’s ability to interconnect to the grid is directly impacted by NECEC. NECEC is a proposed high voltage direct current (“HVDC”) transmission line that NECEC asserts can only be used by Canadian entities (see Attachment 1 CMP’s Response to IEGC Data Request),1 despite the fact that NextEra is developing renewable projects in and around the transmission line. Id. NECEC’s position of foreclosing Maine-based renewables from using the transmission line is also in conflict with Maine statutes that encourage the development of solar and mandate for the development of Maine-based wind.2 Such an impact on NextEra’s Maine Renewable Projects goes beyond mere economic harm to a blocking of NextEra’s opportunity use the same transmission corridor or interconnect to the ISO-NE gird, but further directly impacts NextEra’s opportunity to support the renewable goals and policies of Massachusetts and Maine ...</em></p>
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<p>After last month's public hearing, the original LD 1810, introduced by Governor Paul LePage thanks to Representative Joel Stetkis, was drastically overhauled in committee. Unfortunately, the House didn't even debate the minority report; they just voted to kill the bill outright. </p>
<p>This minority report of the committee simply would have given the DEP a little bit more opportunity to request a Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) when a wind project is proposed close to a Scenic Resource of…</p>
<p>After last month's public hearing, the original LD 1810, introduced by Governor Paul LePage thanks to Representative Joel Stetkis, was drastically overhauled in committee. Unfortunately, the House didn't even debate the minority report; they just voted to kill the bill outright. </p>
<p>This minority report of the committee simply would have given the DEP a little bit more opportunity to request a Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) when a wind project is proposed close to a Scenic Resource of State of National Significance. </p>
<p>A VIA is merely a test, a report commissioned by an independent consultant to help the DEP judge whether a project would have a high level of scenic impact on the special landmark. </p>
<p>According to DEP, every project in Maine has submitted a VIA as part of its application. </p>
<p>But today the Wind Lobby locked arms and did what they do: kill any changes to the Wind Act because it is so crucial to the Maine economy and environment. The disinformation and ignorance on display in the House "debate" today was shameful. </p>
<p>The bill goes to the Senate for another vote, where the minority report could pass. But even if it passes, unless the House reverses today's 36 vote margin of victory, the bill will die in non-concurrence between House & Senate. </p>
<p>Here is today's House roll call: </p>
<p><a href="http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/rollcall.asp?ID=280067686&chamber=H&serialnumber=556">http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/rollcall.asp?ID=280067686&chamber=H&serialnumber=556</a></p>
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<p></p>High Voltage - Coming to a Transmission Corridor Near You?tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-03-13:4401701:BlogPost:1283342018-03-13T15:30:00.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Lots of talk lately about High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission systems. New Hampshire's Northern Pass or CMP's New England Clean Energy Connect might be built soon, providing 1000+ MW of clean dispatchable Canadian hydropower to the New England grid. Such a project -- or perhaps two or three of them -- could greatly slow the wind bandwagon.</p>
<p>This link provides a good primer on HVDC: …</p>
<p>Lots of talk lately about High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission systems. New Hampshire's Northern Pass or CMP's New England Clean Energy Connect might be built soon, providing 1000+ MW of clean dispatchable Canadian hydropower to the New England grid. Such a project -- or perhaps two or three of them -- could greatly slow the wind bandwagon.</p>
<p>This link provides a good primer on HVDC: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current</a></p>WGAN RADIO ALERT TODAYtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-03-05:4401701:BlogPost:752122016-03-05T16:34:04.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>WGAN RADIO ALERT TODAY</p>
<p>Tory Ryden is guest hosting "Inside Maine" today. She announced that she will be talking at noon for an entire segment about "alternative energy" and how we can expand it at a time when "we have a governor who doesn't believe in alternative energy."</p>
<p>(Believe…is it a religion? ...Alternative…to what?)</p>
<p>Chances are she will have a guest who is in the wind lobby.</p>
<p>Tune in to 560 AM or you can listen live online (about a minute delay).…</p>
<p>WGAN RADIO ALERT TODAY</p>
<p>Tory Ryden is guest hosting "Inside Maine" today. She announced that she will be talking at noon for an entire segment about "alternative energy" and how we can expand it at a time when "we have a governor who doesn't believe in alternative energy."</p>
<p>(Believe…is it a religion? ...Alternative…to what?)</p>
<p>Chances are she will have a guest who is in the wind lobby.</p>
<p>Tune in to 560 AM or you can listen live online (about a minute delay). <a href="http://wgan.com">http://wgan.com</a>.</p>
<p>The call-in number is 207-879-9426.</p>Bowers Decision Coming Today???tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2015-12-03:4401701:BlogPost:714192015-12-03T18:12:50.000ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p>Stay Tuned.</p>
<p>Stay Tuned.</p>