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Reprioritize Maine

  Maine has an electricity supply problem. Non-cooperative weather breaking down the physical delivery system is getting more frequent and widespread. Our utilities are trying to keep up, but the trees get in the way. A state that is 90% canopied by forest growth should not have any adversity towards cleaning out weak, dead, and obviously old and unsteady trees away from power lines. How many standby household generators are called to operate as the power is interrupted and restoration…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 7, 2024 at 9:25am — 4 Comments

Maine Public Utilities Commission hosts virtual “Coffee & Conversation” with community

In the first RFP for the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program, the PUC issued the following statement to all bidders prior to selection of projects:
 
 
NOTE REGARDING EVALUATION OF COST: The Commission’s evaluation will focus on the cost and benefits to Maine ratepayers rather than the overall costs and benefits of the project. ( Bold, italic and underline by…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 4, 2024 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Low-carbon shift raises risk of blackouts, grid execs warn

By Peter Behr | 04/03/2024 06:38 AM EDT

Snowballing policy and infrastructure issues pose a threat to electric reliability as a greener U.S. economy demands more power.

Executives of U.S. regional power grids are warning they face new and unprecedented challenges as energy demand grows and the industry takes on the enormous shift to carbon-free electricity.

Without…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 4, 2024 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Buying Off Maine Businesses and Farmers for Coerced Approval of the Green Agenda

Seventeen Maine farms and other…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2024 at 9:19am — 2 Comments

Propagandizing Maine Regulatory Agencies

The Crazies are now assaulting major regulatory agencies with trash talk.

The PUC is not immune either. 

Democrats are the worse.

                                        Maine Land Use Planning Commission…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2024 at 8:59am — 2 Comments

California Floating Wind Turbines? Environmental Pushback

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 2, 2024

“It is entirely possible that the total costs to build, maintain and replace units every 20+ years (at end of service) would be prohibitive compared to other sources of energy. Beyond these cost considerations, sources indicate that the turbine blades cannot be recycled and are piling up in landfills. Fossil fuels will also still be needed to maintain the lubrication of these units, and what about…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 2, 2024 at 11:10am — No Comments

Regional Greenhouse Gas Imitative (RGGI), a Complete Failure Costing Ratepayers $7.5 Billion Dollars

The Chart Below Displays Annual Generation from Natural Gas-Fired Electrical Plants in New England 2008 to 2023 ( A Fossil Fuel)

                                   2008 : Generation = 51,237,000 Megawatt Hours

                                   2023 : Generation = 54,451,000 Megawatt Hours …

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Added by Dan McKay on March 29, 2024 at 9:35am — 6 Comments

Merrimack and Schiller stations, last coal plants in New England, to shut down coal operations

Merrimack Station in Bow, the last operating coal-fired power plant in New England, is set to close its coal operations by June 2028, the plant’s parent company announced Wednesday. 

The decision is part of a settlement agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after the Conservation Law Foundation and the Sierra Club brought lawsuits under the Clean Water Act against the parent company, Granite Shore Power.

According to the agreement,…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 28, 2024 at 9:16am — No Comments

Roper: Vermont House passes Renewable Energy Standard amidst cloud of baloney

Timothy Page

March 22

by Rob Roper

This week the House voted in favor of …

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Added by Dan McKay on March 23, 2024 at 9:35am — 4 Comments

Changes to The Maine Wind Energy Act, The goals for onshore wind are gone

2.  State wind energy generation goal.   The State's goal for wind energy development in proximate federal waters is for at least 3,000…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 19, 2024 at 8:54am — 1 Comment

Offshore wind power prices take big leap

New York prices more than double last bid in Mass
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Added by Dan McKay on March 1, 2024 at 11:18am — No Comments

Catastrophe Over

Maine elites with climate catastrophobia  have identified offshore wind as a key component of reaching clean energy goals, which include using 80% renewable energy by 2030, with the intention of reaching 100% by 2040.
 
What does it mean to reach renewable energy…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 1, 2024 at 9:41am — 1 Comment

A Bone to Pick With the Democrats on the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee of Augusta

The democrats of the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee are running rampantly against standard committee practice.The democrats outnumber the republicans in the committee 8 to 5. Both chairs are democrats and they are very bold, but one wonders how ethical their actions are.


       For instance, a couple weeks ago, a work session was scheduled for a bill that would provide for a study on how Maine might restrict the build-out of…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 29, 2024 at 8:03am — No Comments

Do Maine Lawmakers Have the Best Interests for the Maine People? There is a Way to Find Out.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recorded the 2022 total Maine electric sales at 11,875,708 megawatt-hours


The EIA record shows Maine has generation capabilities from renewables at 11,257476 megawatt-hours.
This means if Maine would qualify just one in-state hydropower plant over a 100 megawatt capacity as renewable, Maine…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 28, 2024 at 12:28pm — 2 Comments

ISO – NE Warning

The New England Integrated System Operator (ISO) issued a report in 2022 that looked at four scenarios to decarbonize the New England power grid by 2040. The report projected increases in power demand from EVs and electrification of home…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 27, 2024 at 11:19am — 4 Comments

Rep. Reagan Paul delivers this week's Republican Radio Address regarding the selection of Sears Island as the offshore wind port

2024 02 22 Paul Radio Address (youtube.com)

AUGUSTA – Governor Mills announced this week that Sears Island has been selected as the location where her administration will launch its long-awaited offshore wind energy project. Climate extremists were ecstatic with the news. Renewable energy lobbyists were bouncing off the State House walls. But sadly there is a clear loser here – it’s…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 26, 2024 at 9:35am — 1 Comment

Two Northern Maine lawmakers who support the King Pine Wind Project

Aroostook lawmakers back study that could further slow massive wind project

February 23, 2024 Bangor Daily News…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 26, 2024 at 8:38am — 2 Comments

NextEra and the NECEC

Inside a clean energy titan’s fight to kill a climate project

Story by By Benjamin Storrow…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 25, 2024 at 10:23am — No Comments

Maine Dems Unanimously Reject Voter ID

FEBRUARY 23, 2024…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 24, 2024 at 8:03am — 9 Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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